I would like to debate whether we think the current thresholds for certain things to pass are best. Is a 60% vote for constitutional amendments too high/low? Are confirmation votes thresholds too lenient? Debate may bring an answer to it.

What do you think the best range for a threshold would be?

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Not too sure, perhaps 2/3rds, or even 3/4ths. Why even have a supermajority at all? I’d just like to see some debate on that and see what other people think. Perhaps a new government structure would naturally demand a different threshold for things than we have now.

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Not too sure, perhaps 2/3rds, or even 3/4ths. Why even have a supermajority at all? I’d just like to see some debate on that and see what other people think. Perhaps a new government structure would naturally demand a different threshold for things than we have now.

Yeah, I think you have a good point on the percentages, particularly with low numbers of assembly members...maybe a move to 70% would be a nice mid point?

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Not too sure, perhaps 2/3rds, or even 3/4ths. Why even have a supermajority at all? I’d just like to see some debate on that and see what other people think. Perhaps a new government structure would naturally demand a different threshold for things than we have now.

3/5ths is already a difficult threshold to meet. I think we're good on keeping the thresholds as is.

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One potential reform to supermajorities I had considered was whether it should be set as a % of total legislators rather than just of those voting - in other words counting abstentions and absences as though they were "Nay" votes. This would prevent potentially significant changes from being passed on the back of legislator apathy.

However I have not studied recent votes in detail to understand whether, say, a 50%+1 majority of all legislators would make much difference to outcomes compared to the current supermajority threshold.

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One potential reform to supermajorities I had considered was whether it should be set as a % of total legislators rather than just of those voting - in other words counting abstentions and absences as though they were "Nay" votes. This would prevent potentially significant changes from being passed on the back of legislator apathy.

However I have not studied recent votes in detail to understand whether, say, a 50%+1 majority of all legislators would make much difference to outcomes compared to the current supermajority threshold.

I strongly disagree with this. This would make apolitical actions such as telling people to vote but suddenly political. If you track vote counts over time, you'll notice that there was a significant uptick during most of my terms due to me sending DM reminders to legislators who did not vote on proposals. While you can certainly argue whether it was a good idea or not to to that, I think debating the merits of reminding legislators to vote should be separate from the debates over the proposals themselves.

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I think that there is no reason to change the voting thresholds. So why bother? Just because we are having a GC doesn't mean that everything is broken.

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It's worth discussing, although I personally could be persuaded to just make everything a simple majority. A lot of what we have included as a "Constitutional law" versus a normal law is fairly arbitrary. A majority of the Assembly is no small feat and is honestly sufficient, imo, to demonstrate collective will for a proposal.

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Does the political party system still work? If it was revived and promoted it could be a way to increase activity.

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Political parties were pretty much dead by the time I joined TSP, but I don't think our broadly non-adversarial political culture creates much need for them. I also tend to think that structures like political caucuses or parties are best left to develop naturally rather than being prescribed into existence.

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