Legislators of the South Pacific,

Three days have passed since the Cabinet has issued an Executive Order concerning the Elections Act. The order is therefore automatically put to vote. The debate thread can be found here.

This is an Executive Order concerning constitutional legislation, according to the Legislative Procedure Act requiring a majority greater than 60% to pass. The voting period will be 5 days, thus concluding on January 17 at 17:30 UTC (17:30 in London, 12:30 in New York, 04:30 on Jan 18 in Sydney).

Please vote by poll if possible. If you cannot vote by poll, post 'Aye', 'Nay' or 'Abstain' in this thread. Please do not vote both by poll and by post. Comments and discussions belong in the debate thread and should be posted there.

Elections Act

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3. Office of the Delegate

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(2) On the first of every January and July, the Assembly will convene for the first round of Delegate elections.
a. Any eligible legislator wishing to run for Delegate may declare their candidacy, and the Assembly will debate the merits of their platform. Any player who has been banned from World Assembly membership will be considered ineligible and any candidate who is later discovered to be banned from World Assembly membership will be immediately disqualified. Legislators wishing to run for Delegate must hold a number of endorsements equal to at least 80% of the existing applicable endorsement cap at the commencement of the election period.
b. The campaign and debate period will last one week, after which the Assembly will vote for 3 days.
c. This round of voting for delegate will be conducted using Approval Voting.
d. The two candidates with the highest number of approvals will move to a second round of voting conducted via a poll of Native World Assembly members.
e. Should the voting result in a tie, more than two nations may move onto the second round of voting.
f. If an advancing candidate receive less than 50% approval, the option to Re-Open Nominations will be "approved", and the process for that slot shall begin again at the campaign and debate period.
g. If there is only one candidate for Delegate in the first round of Delegate elections, the Assembly will vote whether to approve that candidate or re-open nominations. If the candidate receives less than 50% approval, the option to Re-Open Nominations will be "approved", and the process shall begin again at the campaign and debate period. If the candidate receives greater than 50% approval, the Election Commissioner will initiate a second round of voting conducted via a week-long poll of Native World Assembly members, with the options of the approved candidate and Re-Open Nominations. If the option to Re-Open Nominations receives the majority of the votes in the regional poll, then the process of electing a Delegate will begin again at the campaign and debate period.

Notice: At the Chair's discretion and in accordance with the Law Standards Act, the above Law Standards Act-compliant bill has been derived from the Executive Order. I haven't required the Cabinet to do this themselves since the other EOs I could find did not all feature such a bill from the Cabinet's side, and an EO isn't itself an amendment or any other type of bill mentioned in the Law Standards Act.

(This post was last modified: 01-17-2022, 01:40 PM by The Haughtherlands.)

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Final Result Executive Order on Delegate Elections
Ayes: 26 66.7% | 89.7% (discounting abstentions)	Nays: 3 7.7% | 10.3% (discounting abstentions)
There were 10 Abstentions (25.6%); 40 legislators were absent. Thus, attendance for this vote was 49.4%.
In light of these results, the proposal passes, having achieved the required majority (>60%).

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