SENATE BILL: Non-partisan elections Act (Failed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE BILL

To make elections non-partisan in an attempt to revive competitive elections

Be it enacted in both Houses of Congress Assembled,

1. This bill may be referred to as the "George Washington was Right/Non-Partisan elections Act". It may also be referred to by the shorter title of "Non-partisan elections Act"

2. After this bill is passed, the Registrar General shall manually change the federal and regional party registration of all registered voters to Independent and stop tracking party registrations

3. Section 5.3 of the Federal Electoral Act is amended as follows:

3. The federal election authority shall be free to design the ballot as they see fit, provided that they adhere to the requirements set out in Section 3 of this Act as well as the following:

a. All candidates must be listed by their permanent Atlas Forum username, unless they have requested otherwise. Such a request shall be granted, unless it would confuse them with another user.

b. All candidates must be listed with their state of registration.

c. No party registrations of any kind may be listed in federal election ballots

c. All candidates must be listed with their registered political party, with the following exceptions:

  i. A party may, at its discretion as determined by individual bylaws, prohibit any candidate from appearing on the ballot with it's official party name. This decision must be made and reported to the relevant election administrators at least 48 hours in advance of the start of the election. (Continuation of F.L. 15-05§2.3)
  ii. If a candidate who is a member of a political party has been barred from appearing on the ballot with that party’s name in accordance with the above clause, but has been endorsed by another party in accordance with their bylaws, then the candidate may choose, with the assent of the chair of the endorsing party, to appear on the ballot under that party’s name with “(endorsed)” appended to the end of the name. Otherwise, their party shall be listed as “Unaffiliated”
  iii. If an independent has been endorsed by a political party in accordance with their bylaws, then the candidate may choose, with the assent of the chair of the endorsing party, to appear on the ballot with their party listed as “Independent ([endorsing party name])

d. During Presidential elections, the candidate listing for Presidential tickets and House of Representatives should be clearly separated, with a clear indication of which is which.

e. The ballot must contain a link to the most recent version of this act.

f. All elements of the ballot must be clearly visible and accessible.

4. The following sections of the Census Act of 2019 are hereby amended as follows

a) Section 2.1:

1. The Cabinet member assigned the portfolio of Census Administrator shall maintain a census document listing all registered voters in Atlasia. For each voter, the census shall list:

a. Their permanent Atlas Forum username
b. The federal and regional political parties they are registered with
c. The state they are registered in
d. The region they reside in
e. Whether or not the voter voted or attempted to vote in each of the last three federal elections.
f. If, according to the provisions of this act, a voter is presently ineligible to move regions, the date by which they shall become eligible to move regions

b) Section 3.2:

2. To register, a poster must post in this thread indicating the state in which they wish to register and their party affiliation of choice.

c) Section 6: Party organization is struck down in its entirety

Sponsor: Tack50
Senate Designation: SB25:02

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Initial Debate Period - Sponsor Advocacy - 24 hours.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Not even sure what this really changes. Even if Labor couldn't call itself Labor anymore, we still have our existing records of zombies to pm, we'd contact newbies to learn their leanings, and send pre filled out ballots to zombies and party loyalists. The Congress doesn't have the power to shut down, mute, or declassify Laborcord. Heck, I imagine we could still elect unofficial chairs and such to coordinate party organization, platform making etc even if we had to do it under some sort of codename terminology.

This WOULD create a lot of special elections for Senate and House seats, as we wouldn't be able to appoint midterm replacements as everyone would be independent. But it wouldn't necessarily make said elections competitive.

So vote for this, or don't. Doesn't really matter.

This is hilarious for the simple fact that it also illustrates why dissolving the parties RPP/JCP style would never work in the Discord era.

Not even sure what this really changes. Even if Labor couldn't call itself Labor anymore, we still have our existing records of zombies to pm, we'd contact newbies to learn their leanings, and send pre filled out ballots to zombies and party loyalists.

You know the funny thing is there are still a select few that would cringe at the public revelation of such, even more so that such is par for the course and wide accepted. They are like trace remnants of a by gone era, when the leadership of the RPP and the JCP and even later the Feds, Liberals and Labor had to make believe they weren't but everyone knew they were and there were many others who make believed that we believed that weren't but knew that we were.

And yes, this would have have come out much better if I wasn't typing it at 1 AM.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So final vote then? Going to go ahead and call objections, Senators have 24 hours etc etc.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A Final Vote is now open on this legislation, Senators please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

RELUCTANT NAY

Eat your heart out, Tack!

inb4 this joke gets taken literally: This is impossible to do for the reasons already stated.


This ends in about 5 hours.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Final Passage of the Non-Partisan Elections Act:

Aye (0):
Nay (3): Devout Centrist, Jimmy and YE
Reluctant Nay (1): Reluctant Nay
Abstain (2): LT and Tack50

Didn't Vote (0):

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