One thing I will say is about region-wide voting, both Tsu and Sir Pitt here have brought up a common counter-argument: that voting should be restricted those who are better informed.

In my opinion, when you broaden voting, the information is broaden too. Currently, elections are run solely on the forum - so all campaigns keep their literature to the forums and all campaigns are focused almost exclusively on issues that affect forum-goers. If elections are run region-wide, campaigns would have to spread their literature to the entire region, appeal to the public, keep them informed and build a platform that will appeal to them, not just forum-goers.

The election would be won by the candidate who got their message out to the region as a whole and have it resonate with voters, thus it would be in the strategic interests of everyone involved to promote the diffusion of information to all voters. To get the message out. To inform them. To encourage them to participate in the elections as informed voters.

Currently, no candidate is encouraged to do this and take the time to approach the whole region, so of course most of the region is being left out in the dark and wholly out of the loop as to what is going on. But it doesn't need to be that way!

- Unibot.