SENATE BILL: Voter's Bill of Rights (Failed)

[Napoleon]

The premise is simple. Voters have rights and we ought to make those rights public. Many states have something similar to this in place; this is reconstructed to fit Atlasia. I think its pretty straight forward, we spent a decent amount of time discussing ethics in voting with the Vote Sanctity Act so if there's no opposition I would be fine going the UC route with this.

Probably the biggest change is allowing the AG to look into suspected voter fraud cases and refer it to the Court if necessary. I don't expect that will be controversial though.

[Napoleon]

Unfriendly. I'd prefer amending the clause to striking the clause, if its such a big deal to you guys.

[Napoleon]

I'll likely support the bill if Clause 5 is struck, but I'm not sure how workable it is - does Clause 1 simply legislate for the Executive Order mandating that the SoFE post a sample ballot or are we expecting each voter to receive a PM with one displayed?

I have no problem with the Attorney General having the power to refer voter fraud cases to the Supreme Court.

Technically, that clause does not require anything. The SoFE is currently required to post a sample ballot because he is beholden to the executive order I issued as President, but this doesn't legislate that (nor should it). What this does is guarantee access to a sample ballot- if someone requests one, it must be provided. If its posted, even better. If its PMed, fine.

I think people are trying to make this more than it is. I wanted to codify certain rights for voter's like many other states and countries do, since we haven't done this. The democratic process is extremely important to me.

What's everyone's problem with Clause 5?

[Napoleon]

1, 2 and 4 are taken care of by my office as a matter of course. There's nothing wrong, of course, with putting this into law, barring some creative lawsuits, but I don't really see the need for much of it.

Yeah, I'm not really set out to change anything with this. I simply think it would be good to codify the rights of voters as a matter of course.

[Napoleon]

nay

[Napoleon]

I was expecting a clarified version of what was just removed. Is that not the case?

What changes do I need to make? I liked it before.

[Napoleon]

AYE