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Ditortilla · 03-04-2015, 03:48 PM

Sorry if this is bureaucracy 101 but could somebody explain why there is such a diverse range of percentages required to return a successful vote, going from 50%+1, to 75%?

~~Unibot~~ · 03-04-2015, 04:03 PM

A supermajority is required for votes which we feel need to be made with more consensus - votes regarding individuals (emotionally-charged) and votes regarding the constitution (politically-charged).

A simple majority is the default.

Treaties are the weird outlier at 60%. Historically, ALL laws in NS and all decisions were made with 60%.

Then the Great Council of 2012 produced a system where ALL laws were decided by 50%+1.

And then sometime around the Great Council of 2013, we set constitutional decisions at 75% and wars and treaties at 60%. I suspect the 60% was to keep war as a distinct possibility (Belschaft loved his wars) and treaties like TNI-TSP had only barely scrubbed by with 63% support.

(This post was last modified: 03-04-2015, 04:03 PM by Sandwich Territories.)