Some senator please help the DoFA by suggesting appropriate legislation!

[minionofmidas]

How about we just change the law on absentee voting so that it's your bad if you do it before all possible candidates have declared? I mean, the way it is now (with the request'n'all) it's supposed to be basically abolished except for people who actually *need* it because they won't be online that weekend.

I don't really see a problem with the declaration / voter registration thing. Although we did align the two on purpose once when I was "powerful" around here, previously one was seven days and the other ten.
I certainly don't want people to be able to register their socks, or move on account of electoral math, until 24 hours before polls open.

[minionofmidas]

How about we just (...) extend the general election to say....5 days?

Before we changed the law on absentee voting, they basically ran for ten days with a random switch to another thread three days before the end. Most people voted in the last three days, but quite a few did before that.
It was stupid. Keep the election at three days.

[minionofmidas]

It doesn't make any sense to have absentee voting for 24 hours before the election, as we're going to have this time.

Too true.

[minionofmidas]

It's not so complicated : Someone may declare candidacy until 24h before the election, but only if he has registered 7 days before. Where is the problem ?

No problem with that part, really.

The second part is the important part. Pretty classic drafting oversight.