Public Poll on the Election and Voter Policy Specification Amendment

[Gabu]

The following amendment has passed the Senate with a two-thirds majority as of today:

Election and Voter Policy Specification Amendment

§ 1. Article II, Section 2, Clause 4 is hereby amended by appending to the end of it the following text:

"For the purposes of this clause, the amending of one's vote is defined to be the editing of the post containing the vote."

§ 2. The amended version of Article II, Section 2, Clause 4 shall hereby be applied to all federal elections.

§ 3. The following text from Article V, Clause 4 is hereby stricken:

"No one who has attained eighteen posts, is an active member of the forum, and has established an avatar from the United States for at least the time span of the election shall be denied the right to vote. An active member is defined as a person who has participated in other threads at the forum and has not joined for the purpose of trolling."

It shall be replaced with the following text:

"No one who has attained eighteen posts shall be denied the right to register to vote.  No one who is registered to vote, who is an active member, and who has established either an avatar from the United States or a statement declaring his or her registration in his or her signature for at least the time span of the election shall be denied the right to vote.  The Senate shall be granted the power to define what an active voter is through appropriate legislation.  The burden of proof shall be placed on the Secretary of Forum Affairs to prove that a registered voter is not active; if it cannot be proven, the voter shall be assumed to be active."

§ 4. The parts in Section 3 pertaining to the requirement of registered voters to be active members shall not be enforced on voters who have registered prior to the passage of this amendment until they have voted in at least one federal election.

§ 5. The following text from Amendment II, Section 2, is hereby stricken:

"Every registered vote at the forum who has acquired eighteen posts, is an active member of the forum, and are registered with an avatar from the United States".

It shall be replaced with the following text:

"Every person who fulfills the requirements to vote as specified in Article V, Clause 4 of the Constitution".

§ 6. Article II, Section 2, Clause 5 of the Constitution is hereby stricken.

Per the methods specified in Article VI of the Constitution, it must now pass with a majority in a public poll administered by the President Pro Tempore over a week's time.

Please read the amendment carefully (links to relevent parts of the Constitution have been provided for assistance) and then vote "yea" if you are in favor of it or "nay" if you are not, or abstain from voting if you so choose.

NOTE: This amendment is not a stand-alone piece of legislation.  It was proposed in combination with the Statute of Election Procedure, Certification, and Challenges, which also passed today.  Full text of the dual legislation can be found here in the first post by me (the top one).  Refer to both of them to get a fuller picture of what this is aiming to do.

Gustaf: if you could give this topic a sticky as well, that would be great.

[Gabu]

Yea.

[Gabu]

Aye. All these damn amendments are a waste of time if the Constitutional Convention delegates don't like them

Yes, I had considered that, but hopefully they'll opt to put them into the new Constitution.  If this passes, I hope that a delegate proposes what I have here as part of the new Constitution.

[Gabu]

Yes, I had considered that, but hopefully they'll opt to put them into the new Constitution.  If this passes, I hope that a delegate proposes what I have here as part of the new Constitution.

It already is (and in fact always has been) a part of the new drafts. This mostly corrected all the silly errors in the original Constitution, which we had already done in the initial drafting. The only other change was to allow for the Senate to define activity requirements, which I put in a while ago.

Oh, good.

[Gabu]

Don´t want to change my avatar... therefore AYE!

(But doesn´t it mean that my votes in the last few elections were all invalid? This calls for a RECOUNT! *lol*)

Fortunately, you can't do that, as the statute we've passed says that nobody can challenge any election results that have already occurred.

[Gabu]

With twenty-three votes in favor to one against and two abstaining, I hereby declare this amendment to have passed.

Good show, all.