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This makes sense to me.
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I support this, I second this or just motion if the first motion was retracted.
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The bill is in a state where it can be brought to vote, but I think it would be a mistake to address the issue of election scheduling in a piecemeal way. Over the years I've found that it's best to not only establish a consistent schedule of elections, but also to spread them out as much as possible; elections serve not only as a generator of activity, but as a way to engage new players in the political process. Having long periods without any electoral activity can be seriously detrimental to a region - historically, that was the reason why I scheduled judicial and cabinet elections in a staggered manner, so that elections would occur every two months. There's also benefits in terms of having more people contest the elections, as if they all occur at the same time there's more offices and the same number of people to go around. If elections are staggered then people can run in one set, lose, and then run in the next set.
At present we have four "sets" of elections; Cabinet, Delegate, Chair and Local Council. Two of those feature solely forum stages, one a forum and region stage, and one a region stage. If we're moving to four month terms for Cabinet, then it makes sense to move to four month terms for everything and schedule it so one forum and one region election occurs in each set of the "stagger". What I'd like to suggest is pairing Cabinet and Local Council elections, and Delegate and Chair elections. That way there'll be a set of elections every two months, involving both the forum and the region. Minister of Media, Subversion and Sandwich Making
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I like this plan. As a newbie, the sheer number of elections facing us now is a little overwhelming, but they have also been educational and increased my involvement. Staggered elections would make this less daunting but also mean that any new player is only a short time away from the next part of the political process.
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To put my proposal in an easily understandable manner;
January February - Cabinet and LC elections March April - Delegate and Chair elections May June - Cabinet and LC elections July August - Delegate and Chair elections September October - Cabinet and LC elections November December - Delegate and Chair elections Minister of Media, Subversion and Sandwich Making
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(06-17-2016, 05:41 PM)Belschaft Wrote: To put my proposal in an easily understandable manner; No Bel, that's changing the length of terms for the offices. The delegate is suppose to be every six months as to not have the delegate's seat rotate with the Cabinet. It's also my understanding — GR can correct if wrong — that the Chair election is meant to last four months regardless of when elected. So, if Awe resigned next month (July) we'd hold a new chair election and that term would last until November, while we'd have a Cabinet elex in October. The election calendar here would look more like this (which Chair fluctuation): Jan — Delegate Feb — Cabinet/LC March — April — May — June — Cabinet/LC July — Delegate August — September — October — Cabinet/LC November — December — Now, we can move the LC to a different time frame, if you'd prefer. (That was probably more a patch than this proposal.) And/or we can set up the Chair term to not coincide with the Cabinet elex too — that was just an unfortunate turn of events given the close of the GC. But I don't think we should set up the delegate and Chair elections to always run together since I think that's getting away from the whole separate branches part.
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We should not change term limits outside of what we are here to do.
Grouping elections together is somewhat good. Chair and cabinet is in my mind a good grouping. LC is all game side (if I'm not wrong) so we shouldn't be worried about it. Delegate stays 6 months per charter. Above all else, I hope to be a decent person.
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Fix the actual problems in the Charter first before we had problems, then we can argue about optimal election schedules another time.
Two possible election schedules using six month Delegate terms;
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