SB 29-20: Regional Registration Act (Tabling Vote)

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A BILL
To protect the integrity of the regions

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled,

SECTION I: TITLE
1. This legislation may be referred to as the Regional Registration Act.

SECTION II: CONTENT
1. Section 4, clause 2 of FL 22.9, the Census Act of 2019, is hereby amended to read the following:

If a voter has been registered in more than one region over the previous one hundred and eighty days, they cannot register outside the region they were most recently registered in.

After establishing residency in a region, a voter may not change residences to another region for another two hundred and seventy days. This shall not be affected by deregistration.

SECTION III: TIMING
1. The amended restriction shall apply to registrations taking place after this bill's passage of both houses of Congress and signature into law by the President.

Passed 4-2-0-3 in the Atlasian House assembled

Sponsor: Sev
Status: Debating

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24 hours to object

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Sev is recognized as sponsor.

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Honestly, you should just live where you live irl. I don't understand why people want to strategically register. It's pathetic.

When I joined this wasn't possible as England wasn't available- and it still feels stupid to move after being in the Northeast for so long.

I'm not sure I'd want to remove the right for new players to have one free move

Its more an accident of the wording switch. So it could be restored by giving an explicit exception for new players as such.

I'm happy with this but would rather not draft the wording- I know my own strengths and election regulations here are not one of them!

How about something like, "Newly registered players shall be able to make one move within the first week of registration" or something along those lines?

I think this seems fair- I get the sense that with the expansion of the regions to beyond the US we've had people register without knowing what region they would be in & I think it's fair to give new players a chance.

I agree. I think a little leeway is fairer to new players.

Echoing these statements. Most new registers probably don't know what region they're in and locking them to one place could be detrimental to their ability to run for office depending on the dynamics of any region's politics at a given time.

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Tabling Vote now open.

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Aye on the motion to table.

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By a vote of 2-1-0-2 the bill is tabled.