F.L.26-3 passed, it would seem, because people who voted on it didn't know what they were doing and I awoke to it too late. I'm just tieing up the loose ends here, really.
Second Amendment to the Consolidated Electoral System Reform Act
Be it resolved that:
Section 3, Clause 1 shall be amended as follows:
1. Strike the first instance of “midnight Eastern Standard Time on the first Thursday” and amend by inserting “0001 Eastern Time on the first Friday”.
2. Strike the second instance of “standard”.
Section 5, Clause 1 shall be amended as follows:
1. Strike existing Section 5, Clause 1 in its entirity.
2. Insert new Section 5, Clause 1 to read as follows:
“The new election shall be held between 0001 Eastern Time on the second Friday after the initial election and 0001 Eastern Time on the first Friday thereafter, and shall conclude exactly 72 hours after the beginning.”
These sections do to runoff and post-NOTA-victory special elections what the rejected Constitutional Amendment would have done to General and Special elections, ie change the poll-opening window to a whole week, beginning on the day after the day polls currently open.
This was in a bill separate from the constitutional Amendment because these types of elections are not actually mentioned in the Constitution's text as it stands.
This either does nothing whatsoever (my pov) or changes the poll-opening window provided for by what was at the time called the "Flexi-Time Amendment" from one minute to 24 h and 1 minute (lol). I don't know what the minute was supposed to be for, but it's in the XI Amendment - polls opening sometime between Midnight Thursday and 00:01am Friday.
So, well, if someone wants to introduce an Amendment to repeal only the first two sections, I won't mind.