N307: (Constitutional Amendment) Voter Integrity Act (Passed)

[Kung Fu Kenny]

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Sponsor: R2D2, on behalf of Governor Mike Wells

Debate will last 72 hours, voting will last 48 hours.


Pretty straightforward piece of legislation, imo. Should pass without any objection.

[Kung Fu Kenny]

I'm going to interpret that this is an amendment, and because I have an amendment in the queue for legislative debate, I will suggest that we table this for now so we can pass both amendments at once, so that they'll both be ready to vote on in February when the elections roll around. We can also vote on the new region name in February.

[Kung Fu Kenny]

I'm reopening debate on this amendment for 72 hours, and we'll vote for 48. Should this pass unopposed, we will then vote on the next amendment in the queue and by then, the regional name suggestions will be able to be debated, all in time for next month's elections. Here is the current state of the bill:

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[Kung Fu Kenny]

Sorry to interrupt but I question if it is legal to require more than 7 days to have the right to vote in the region. In the federal bill of rights it is stated in section 4:
 

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Denying a new citizen the right to vote because he's not being in the region 10 days would go against that.

Regions should have the same standard (7 days) for interregional move so the mover has always a right to votein one region. Maybe that would be covered in the constitution by this:

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Technically, that statue says that only people whose account is fewer than 7 days old cannot vote. It does not establish how long one must be registered after that in order to vote. This leaves open interpretation to say that someone whose account is between 7 and 10 days old can still be denied the right to vote in a region should a region make a law declaring such (which is sort of what we're debating)

Besides, this is a good measure against carpetbagging, and while I'm not in favor of placing more restrictions on voting, I believe it does place some greater barriers to people flocking here en masse to influence the swing of power in one direction or another.

[Kung Fu Kenny]

The debate period has ended, and we will now vote. Because this is a Constitutional amendment, it requires all three Assembly members to vote in the affirmative to pass. Please record your vote below.


Aye

[Kung Fu Kenny]

The voting period has ended, and the amendment passes. It will appear on next month's ballot.