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cinyc
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« on: February 14, 2017, 02:36:32 AM »
« edited: February 14, 2017, 02:41:05 AM by cinyc »

There is no write-in option on the ballot.  Ideas were already submitted for the Assembly to consider, and they narrowed them down to three.

Also, you submitted like ten different names, so why are you objecting to this now? Huh

I don't care whether there is a technical write-in option on the ballot.  Unless I'm missing something (and I admit that I haven't been following affairs in fantasyland as close as I used to), we the voters of the North were NEVER given the opportunity to keep the name North under this possibly unconstitutional process.  That was explicitly denied by the underlying law.  It was a changed name or nothing.  Instead of being given the choice to keep or change the name, we're now given a choice between 3 names.

The North's constitution needs to be amended if we are to change the name.  And constitutional amendments are supposed to be Yes/No affairs to change or not change the status quo, not a choice between 3 changes to the status quo.

For these reasons, I will absolutely be writing in "Northern Region" on the ballot - and implore my fellow residents of the North to do the same.
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cinyc
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« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2017, 06:56:07 PM »

So I guess it's not so much renaming the region as it is giving it a nickname?  Either way, this is a really silly thing to get up in arms about.

Don't you people realize there's fluoride in our water that's turning frogs gay?  Bet you didn't think about that.  You only think of yourself.

Atlasia is a really silly thing to get up in arms about. But it's a game that is supposed to reflect the real world.  You don't think there would be an uproar if the legislature decided to change the name of, say Pennsylvania, to something else, with no option to keep the name as is?
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