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[BALLOT QUESTION - SEQUOYAH STATEHOOD]

BALLOT QUESTION - SEQUOYAH STATEHOOD
Question: Should the Sequoyah Statehood Amendment to the federal constitution be ratified?
Text: [Read here.]
[ X ] Aye
[   ] Nay
[   ] Abstain
FOR FIRST MINISTER
ONE (1) to be elected.
[ 1 ] Write-in: Spiral
FOR PARLIAMENT
THREE (3) to be elected.
[ 1 ] AustralianSwingVoter of Utah
Independent
[ 2 ] Write-in: Shua

Reapportionment method: 1 seat given to each state by default. 385 assigned by population using a single divisor, with fractions being round down.
All districts within states will seek to have roughly equal numbers of Biden voters relative to other districts in the same state.

You should use the actual method used by the US House to be honest, I could do the calculations for you if you're interested.

Feel free to run the calculations, I'm curious to see what would change from the numbers I've got. I'm effectively doing an apportionment method favorable to bigger states, as opposed to one favoring smaller ones, or Huntington-Hill, which is in the middle.

Alabama   5
Alaska   1
Arizona   9
Arkansas   2
California   59
Colorado   10
Connecticut   6
Delaware   2
(DC would have 2 seats if we count it)
Florida   28
Georgia   13
Hawaii   2
Idaho   2
Illinois   18
Indiana   7
Iowa   4
Kansas   3
Kentucky   4
Louisiana   5
Maine   2
Maryland   11
Massachusetts   13
Michigan   15
Minnesota   9
Mississippi   3
Missouri   7
Montana   1
Nebraska   2
Nevada   4
New Hampshire   2
New Jersey   14
New Mexico   3
New York   28
North Carolina   14
North Dakota   1
Ohio   14
Oklahoma   3
Oregon   7
Pennsylvania   18
Rhode Island   2
South Carolina   6
South Dakota   1
Tennessee   6
Texas   28
Utah   3
Vermont   1
Virginia   13
Washington   13
West Virginia   1
Wisconsin   9
Wyoming   1

And exactly accomplishes what?

Just seems like a silly "gotcha!" move. It's one thing to ban local authorities or businesses to impose any mask mandates at this point, but banning masks for people who voluntarily wear them is ridiculous. Hasn't the state bigger issues to solve?

The idea behind the bill is the worry that the health exception of the current mask ban enables people to hide their identity while engaging in riots and destructive protests.

This bill probably needs some fine-tuning, but I highly doubt that the reason most of the campus protesters wear masks is for actual fear of covid or another illness.

And, I would agree that it's perfectly legitimate for mask wearing to be prohibited in some cases (usually probably at the discretion of a business).  I can absolutely see why somewhere like a bank would want to ban mask wearing for security reasons.

with 5 votes in favor and 0 opposed, the resolution is adopted.


Alright, time for leadership nominations.

I'll run for another term as Chair. I nominate Liminal for vice Chair.

Seconded, been very busy lately

If you don't have a cult of personality in this day and age, are you even doing it right?

We never get these kind of deranged quotes from Republican strategists, even in elections that they are actually getting crushed in. Get a grip.

     I generally support self-determination for peoples that want it, so yes.

Dems should invest in the House race here, but its likely its rural areas will trend right again. I think Iowa will become a 11t o 14+R% state in the long term (Unless dems can make gains with farmers again...)

I imagine it flew under the radar in part because the legislature is so heavily represented by one party already and has rarely been competitive in terms of overall control, so what difference did it make if they added a few extra seats?

Kinda a small note but in the last four years the only area outside the big cities with democrats in the legislature, Green River/Rock Springs, and Lander, lost re-election in the last two cycles

IA-03 flipping R is pretty shocking in hindsight considering what happened in virtually every other Midwestern competitive house seat. Maybe it was better candidate quality but it seemed like a red wave actually touched Iowa in 2022. But Trump will probably carry the seat due to Iowa swinging right again and zero presence of the Biden campaign in the state.