SENATE BILL: Libertas Doesn't Understand Fusion Voting Act (Law'd)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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Sponsor: NC Yankee for the President

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Okay, Mr. President, I will let you take the lead on advocating for this. You have 24 hours or I motion to table it.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A final vote can be started here this evening if it is so desired. Is it?

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Sponsor Feedback: Hostile (Since I introduced this for the President, I am inclined to use his opinion as guidance, like I did with Simfan on the GET Act (that is until his demise that is).
Status: Awaiting expiration of minimum amendment floor time before proceeding with vote.

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Sponsor Feeback: Hostile (My default unless Marokai says he likes whatever it is)
Status: Vote to once minimum floor time has lapsed.

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Sponsor Feedback: Hostile (Since I introduced this for the President, I am inclined to use his opinion as guidance, like I did with Simfan on the GET Act (that is until his demise that is).
Status: Awaiting expiration of minimum amendment floor time before proceeding with vote, and resolution of previous amendment.

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Sponsor Feeback: Friendly
Status: Senators have 24 hours to object.

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Sponsor Feedback: Hostile (Since I introduced this for the President, I am inclined to use his opinion as guidance, like I did with Simfan on the GET Act (that is until his demise that is).
Status: Awaiting expiration of minimum amendment floor time before proceeding with vote, and resolution of previous amendment.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Amendment 54:29 has been adopted

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Sponsor Feedback: Hostile (Since I introduced this for the President, I am inclined to use his opinion as guidance, like I did with Simfan on the GET Act (that is until his demise that is).
Status: Senators, the above amendment is now at vote, please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain. 

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This vote seems to be rather stalled.


I like the idea of firmer ballot lines, but I dislike that idea of having an access requirement, so I am torn.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I oppose getting rid of write-ins as well. For a brief period, I was afraid I might have to run a write-in campaign back in February.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

NAY for the previously stated reason.


This ends tomorrow. I could probably end it now, but I am just about out of time for today, unfortunately. I lost several hours in the late morning and early afternoon to correct some kind of weird scripting error that was preventing me from navigating the Atlas. I had to right click and select open in new window to navigate the site.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Amendment 54:30:

Aye (0):
Nay (9): Averroës Nix, Ben, Clarence, HagridoftheDeep, jdb, Matt from VT, Napoleon, NC Yankee, and Snowstalker
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (1): sbane

With nine votes in the negative, the amendment has been rejected.

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The above bill is now at Final Vote, please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Now, maybe this will be hard to understand for someone who seems intent to bully people into voting the way they want, but I didn't check in for the last few days because I was honestly uncomfortable with the rhetoric, politicking, and accusations that have characterized this chamber lately. Posting rants in all-caps doesn't help the situation.

I'm a little tired of sitting quiet just sort of waiting for half of the Senate to wake from it's slumber. I am a little sick of practically having to move mountains to get the Senate to pass proposals put forward by my Administration, even the simplest of things like this.

The Senate can easily and quickly pass bills to allow fictional people more liberty to do drugs in their leisure time but I can't convince you to repeal a no-good law that was deemed by the SoFE to be so useless and busywork-y that he decided to not enforce it anymore. What major initiatives can I get the Senate to pass/the people to approve? At least on the bigger issues I can get the ridiculous excuses some of you people can come up with, but this is the most minor thing I can possibly imagine putting in front of you guys, and half of the people voting here can't even be assed to vote one way or the other. I am sick of getting nothing of significance into effect and not even getting the least significant things done.

Is it really moving mountains to send out five PMs and converse privately with the senators?

Yes! Because the debate threads are where Senators should be asking questions and debating. It is not my responsibility, or anyone else's (perhaps save for the PPT who I know has to send out PMs by the truckload to you people just to keep you all from drowning in your soup bowls) to PM you guys to pay attention to the arguments being presented here, or for me to sweet talk you into voting for things. I expect to put that sort of effort into massive changes, not just to repeal a minor law that isn't being enforced and no one gives a sh** about. I mean, Jesus Christ; do I have to sit you all down in a private room and show you a bunch of pretty pictures to convince any of you to vote for anything more significant than naming a post office? I'm at my wits end here.

Actually I haven't been sending out PMs as frequently as I once was. The things that needs the most PMs actually to be sent out, The committee membership process, is not administered by me but instead by the Vice PResident. The last PM I sent out to everyone was on April 02. I sent one out individually to a Senator or two trying to get a decent turnout for committee membership vote, since then.

Part of the reason is that some of the voters were occuring more quickly and the other was that "Find Member" feature is failing every other time for some reason. I plan to send one out today if I have time though, pertaining to a current tied vote with three not voting. I'll probably load some other issues onto it as well.

Now, maybe this will be hard to understand for someone who seems intent to bully people into voting the way they want, but I didn't check in for the last few days because I was honestly uncomfortable with the rhetoric, politicking, and accusations that have characterized this chamber lately. Posting rants in all-caps doesn't help the situation.

I'm a little tired of sitting quiet just sort of waiting for half of the Senate to wake from it's slumber. I am a little sick of practically having to move mountains to get the Senate to pass proposals put forward by my Administration, even the simplest of things like this.

Why is it that the administration can't keep at least two of its three slots filled? We have a large queue, that includes some foreign policy stuff in it, yet in three weeks I never got an answer as to what should be put in it from Polnut. He mentioned Ben's for the Emergency, but said nothing of the FP slot, then he left on leave, then he came back and still nothing for a long time.

I put Duke in charge of those three slots for a reason, so that an administration with so large an agenda would have a direct pipeline from the Introduction thread to the floor, yet it hasn't been taken advantage of fully or as aggressively as it should. I shouldn't even need to intervene in the selection and floor introduction process at all for those slots with the said setup, yet I am still having to "extract" it the hard way from the "responsible" people and then communicate it to Duke. I don't know about communicating with the Senate like Hagrid said, but there is definately a communication (or lack thereof) problem within the Administration, that shouldn't be the case.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Mr. Speaker, I am officially changing my vote to NAY. Aside from the fact that the President feels he can command us to vote a certain way, the final text does not help or fix anything. Until we come up with a real solution, I am not going to abstain or vote for this type of legislation.

There is no speaker in this chamber. If you want to refer to either Duke or myself directly by title, I beleive it is suppose to be Mr. President, though obviously that can get confusing so probably Mr. Senate President or President Pro-Tempore, is in order.

Also, I gave 24 hours for objections on the Amendment, all amendments have to be on the floor for at least 24 hours before being passed one way or the other, why wasn't an objection offered if you preferred the original text?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Aye (4): Averroës Nix Ben sbane Snowstalker

Nay (3): Hagrid Matt Nappy

Abstain (1): X

Yet to Vote (2): Clarence and  NC Yankee

I lean towards voting Aye at this point just for the record.

Edit: Counted Nix as two people fore a minute there

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Well at least my recommendation to Duke from a few days ago for said three-way communication to occur was actually taken seriously by all parties involved.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

As I hop people will realize, I can vote at any time but it doesn't matter with regards to getting it done sooner, since it won't be the sixth. But since five will make me feel better than four...


AYE!!!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Final Passage of the Libertas Doesn't Undertsand Fusion Voting Act:

Aye (5): Averroës Nix, Ben, NC Yankee, sbane and Snowstalker
Nay (3): HagridoftheDeep, Matt from VT, and Napoleon
Abstain (1): jdb

Didn't Vote (1): Clarence

With five votes in the affirmative and time having expired, the bill is passed and transmitted to the President for executive action.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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Stage 1: Vote on Redraft or Withdraw the bill from the floor.
You must chose sponsor, but chose wisely. lol Indiana Jones joke ftw

Eat it Marokai!

I motion to accept the redraft and proceed to a vote on said Presidential Redraft.

A vote is now open on said redraft, Senators, please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE!!!



Vote on Presidential Redraft:

Aye (: Αverroës Nix, Ben, HagridoftheDeep, Matt from VT, Napoleon, NC Yankee, sbane and Snowstalker
Nay (0):
Abstain (1): jdb

Didn't Vote (1): Clarence

With eight votes in the affirmative and none in the negative the redraft has passed the Senate and has been sent back to the President for executive action.

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