SENATE BILL: De-Registration Act (Vetoed)

[Purple State]

Badger, why doesn't Section 2 assuage your concerns? Hopefully by providing those seven days between de-registration's announcement and implementation cooler heads can prevail. But I'm not sure that it's inappropriate to ask that if you do go through with de-registration then you miss the next election, which is accomplished by the 60 days.

Does any senator think it would be beneficial to include a provision saying that any voter that re-registers returns as though they returned the day they left (something about their status remaining unchanged)? This is especially important for legal issues. For example, if I was convicted of a crime, my sentence is suspended when I de-register and continues when I re-register. If I committed a crime, I can't de-register to run out the clock on the statute of limitations, then re-register and avoid legal action. Or am I always just too cynical?

[Purple State]

Badger, why doesn't Section 2 assuage your concerns? Hopefully by providing those seven days between de-registration's announcement and implementation cooler heads can prevail. But I'm not sure that it's inappropriate to ask that if you do go through with de-registration then you miss the next election, which is accomplished by the 60 days.

Just my two cents since you asked:

I'd like to leave every possible door open to people rejoining Atlasia while simply keeping the RG from having to juggle too many hasty changes. Whatever works for Hans is of primary importance. Beyond that, I just feel that even with the initial 7 day cooling off period the 60 day ban on re-registering is unnecessarily long. I'll defer to Hans here, but is 2 months really necessary to avoid overloading him with work? IMHO a week or two should be sufficient to keep things manageable. Sixty days seems less necessary for smooth functioning of the RG's office and more punitive towards people that dare leave our game.

Even if that's not the intent, it certainly discourages resuming activity in Atlasia to an unnecessary degree.

That's a fair concern. It is a tough balance that I think this resolution strikes as well as it can be struck, but you are right that the nature of this game makes it difficult to create winners without creating some losers.