Legislators of the South Pacific,

There has been a seconded motion to bring an Amendment to the Elections Act to vote. The debate thread can be found here.

As this is an amendment to a constitutional law, it requires a three-fifths supermajority to pass. The voting period will last 5 days, ending on October 25th at 08:00 UTC (09:00 in London, 04:00 in New York, 19:00 in Sydney).

Please vote by poll if possible. If you cannot vote by poll, post 'Aye', 'Nay' or 'Abstain' in this thread. Please do not vote both by poll and by post. Comments and discussions belong in the debate thread and should be posted there.

Elections Act
An act establishing elections for office

1. Election Commission Commissioner

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2. Electoral System

(1) Unless otherwise stated, elections held on the regional forums will be conducted via Instant Runoff Voting (IRV).
a. The form of IRV used must be Optional Preferential Voting (OPV); voters may vote for one or multiple candidates in descending order of preference.
b. Should no candidate have an absolute majority once all votes have been counted then the candidate with the least number of votes shall be eliminated from the election. Should more than one candidate have the least number of votes, the candidate with the least number of votes on the next order of preference shall be eliminated. If their numbers of votes are still equal, both shall be eliminated.
c. The votes of those voting for the eliminated candidate(s) will be reallocated based upon the expressed preferences, or discounted if no further preferences are expressed.
d. This process will continue until a candidate has an absolute majority. Should the final candidates have an equal number of votes when all have been allocated, the Elections Committee Election Commissioner will select a method of arbitration. If the method chosen involves chance, then an unaffiliated Discord bot in a public channel will be used to generate a result randomly using a coin toss or some similar set of pre-defined outcomes.

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(4) To be eligible to be included in a voting ballot, any candidate must post a campaign in an area designated by the Election Commission Commissioner. The campaign must prominently include a truthful declaration of all potential conflicts of interest the candidate may have within and outside of the South Pacific.

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4. Offices of the Cabinet

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(2) The candidate for each position with the most votes will be declared the Minister-elect by the Election Commission Commissioner.

(This post was last modified: 10-25-2021, 04:40 AM by anjo.)

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Final Result Amendment to the Elections Act
Ayes: 44 74.6% | 93.6% (discounting abstentions)	Nays: 3 5.1% | 6.4% (discounting abstentions)
There were 12 Abstentions (20.3%); 18 legislators were absent. Thus, attendance for this vote was 76.6%.
In light of these results, the bill has achieved the required majority (>60%).

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