November Southeast Ballot Initiatives

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Don't these things only go for whole regions, rather than states?

No. Haven't you ever heard of the "Community Choice Initiative", as well as the "Louisiana Abortion Initiative" and the "South Carolina Abortion Initiative".

Not in Atlasia. States have no legislative or executive government here.

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Rewritten:

Arkansas Counties voters only:

Arkansas Counties Abortion Initiative

1. Pursuant to the Community Choice Initiative (97), the following Arkansas counties hereby ban the practice of abortion in all cases, except to save the life of the mother:
Arkansas County
Ashley County
Baxter County
Benton County
Boone County
Bradley County
Calhoun County
Carroll County
Chicot County
Clark County
Clay County
Cleburne County
Cleveland County
Columbia County
Conway County
Craighead County
Crawford County
Crittenden County
Cross County
Dallas County
Desha County
Drew County
Faulkner County
Franklin County
Fulton County
Garland County
Grant County
Greene County
Hempstead County
Hot Spring County
Howard County
Independence County
Izard County
Jackson County
Jefferson County
Johnson County
Lafayette County
Lawrence County
Lee County
Lincoln County
Little River County
Logan County
Lonoke County
Madison County
Marion County
Miller County
Mississippi County
Monroe County
Montgomery County
Nevada County
Newton County
Ouachita County
Perry County
Phillips County
Pike County
Poinsett County
Polk County
Pope County
Prairie County
Pulaski County
Randolph County
Saline County
Scott County
Searcy County
Sebastian County
Sevier County
Sharp County
St. Francis County
Stone County
Union County
Van Buren County
Washington County
White County
Woodruff County
Yell County


2. Any person who performs abortion an abortion in these counties will be found guilty of First Degree Murder.

3. Any woman who abtains an abortion, except to save her life, will recieve a penalty of imprisonment ranging from 5-15 years.

I suppose it hasn't been defined, but counties are also not municipalities. Only, well, municipalities are municipalities. Someone will eventually pass a law pointing this out, and this proposal, too, will be invalid.

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Rewritten:

Arkansas Counties voters only:
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I suppose it hasn't been defined, but counties are also not municipalities. Only, well, municipalities are municipalities. Someone will eventually pass a law pointing this out, and this proposal, too, will be invalid.

Actually, they are defined as such. Why do you think dry counties are called dry municipalities?

Errr... because they aren't? A municipality is a town or city or village. A county is not a municipality or vice versa, and dry counties are not called dry municipalities (though the towns within them might be).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipality

Someone will change that definition to be true.

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Now I am officially registered in Arkansas (temporarily at least)

Sorry to be hounding on you again, but I'm pretty sure there's some amount of time that must elapse before you can reregister in a new location.

I think you're mixing that up with party affiliation. You have to wait 60 days to change your party affiliation.

Vice versa. You can change affiliation at any time. You have to wait 60 days to move. If you had to wait to change affiliations, we might actually have a coherent party system.

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Is this satire?

I hope so. Because that's a blatant violation of the establishment clause right there.