I guess that kinda depends on who stands where. Do we go ahead with Tsu's original proposal, rip it from the CoL and make a separate document or do we need Uni to open another vote on what goes to vote?
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Then, once everyone is a zombie, we all starve and Serling dies. A perfect end to a doomed city.
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Kris: You suddenly remind me of Magneto's White House Speech in Days of Future Past.
TAC: So who's gonna be my right hand mutant?
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Quote:Article 1: Elections
Section 1 - General Elections
1. Elections for all Cabinet positions shall commence on the fifteenth of every March, July, and November.
2. Elections for Court Justices shall commence on the first of every April, August, and December.
3. Terms for all Cabinet positions shall commence on the first of every April, August, and December, and terms for Justices shall commence on the fifteenth of every April, August, and December.
4. All elections shall consist of a pre-voting period lasting six days and a voting period lasting three days. Citizens shall have to declare their candidacy or accept their nomination within the first three days of the pre-voting period.
5. Runoff elections will begin within twenty-four hours of the initial vote closing and consist of a voting period lasting three days.
6. No one can run for or hold more than one Cabinet position, or more than one Justice position, or both a Cabinet and a Justice position at any given time.
7. Candidates for elections may self-declare or be nominated by another Citizen. Candidates must file a Conflict of Interest Disclosure at the time of their acceptance of a nomination or self-declaration.
8. Nominations may be accepted in absentia, as long as they are sent to the Election Commissioner at most two weeks before the start of the pre-voting period, and include a Conflict of Interest disclosure.
9. Conflict of Interest Disclosures must include current World Assembly Nation, all past and present aliases used, all past and present involvement in other regions and organizations, and all current positions held across NationStates.
Section 2 - Position Specificities
1. The Delegate and Vice Delegate will run on a joint ticket and be elected by a majority vote. If no ticket receives a majority vote a runoff election with the two tickets receiving the most votes will occur.
2. Cabinet offices will be voted on separately and be elected by a plurality vote. Court Justices will be voted through a single ballot, with the three candidates who receive the most votes winning seats.
3. In all elections an option to re-open nominations will be included. For non-judicial elections, if this option receives the most votes the nomination period for that office will be restarted.
4. For Court Justice elections, if the option to Re-Open Nominations receives enough votes to be placed within the top four, then the nomination period will be restarted for all seats with lesser votes than this option. The candidates who receive the top votes will win however many seats are left to be filled.
Section 3 - Vacancies
1. In the event that no candidate runs for an available office the newly elected Cabinet will appoint a Citizen to fill the vacancy.
2. Vacancies in office occur when the office holder resigns, is recalled, or no longer holds citizenship. In the event of a vacancy in office a special election will begin within 72 hours of the office becoming vacant, unless the vacancy occurs in the month prior to the start of the term for the position in question; in this case the Cabinet will appoint a Citizen to fill the vacated position for the remainder of the term.
Section 4 - Election Commission
1. Elections will be run by a member of the forum administration staff, acting as an election commissioner.
2. A designated Election Commissioner may be appointed if all members of the administration staff will be candidates in the given election, or if no administer is able to be an Election Commissioner.
Motion to vote.
I wasn't aware the Great Council was a "secret." It's been talked about on IRC since the last elections.
QuietDad, can I fix you sig? :s
(12-23-2014, 08:46 PM)Sandaoguo Wrote: I wasn't aware the Great Council was a "secret." It's been talked about on IRC since the last elections.
It wasn't a "secret" per se, but nothing set as stone, as I indicated in our last conversation. In fact, after our last conversation I was rather pursued by your argument to not have a Great Council, so I was surprised to have this come out in this thread.
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Well I'm not opposed entirely to a Great Council. I just think it can go wrong if it's a free-for-all, and most of that is a fear of people trying to reintroduce things I personally oppose. 
If we are planning on doing a wholesale revision of the Charter and Code of Laws, even if it's just mostly reformatting, a Great Council may be the best vehicle for that. It's not necessary, but afaik it would also mean avoiding the threshold requirements for amendments under the current Charter.
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