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Purple Hyacinth · 01-11-2021, 03:19 AM

Based on the discussion in this thread and in #legislators-lounge, it seems that people liked the idea of moving the endo requirement to the end of the nomination/campaigning period. But no one introduced it as a proposal so here's a proposal Tounge

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 periodend of the campaign and debate 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.

**Rebeltopia** · 01-11-2021, 01:01 PM

Not a huge issue. Im in favor.

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***sandaoguo*** · 01-11-2021, 01:36 PM

I'm generally opposed, because I don't see the point in shifting this from the beginning to the end of the period. This is for a few reasons:

Election dates are set in stone. You know exactly when you need to qualify. If you're waiting until the last minute to decide you want to run for Delegate, you shouldn't be running for Delegate.
Someone significantly below 80% on day 1 is very unlikely to get above 80% on day 7.
We would be debating a candidate who may not actually qualify in the end. It's difficult to really take a campaign seriously if the candidate might not even make it onto the ballot, so I think a lot of people would naturally be waiting to see if they get their endos up before seriously considering and questioning everything about them and their campaign.

**Farengeto** · 01-11-2021, 05:02 PM

Yeah, I'm inclined to agree with Glen on this one. It introduces a lot of ambiguity to the electoral process, and it's not as though the dates of these elections are a surprise. We've been using the same date for almost five years now.