SENATE BILL: Fix the Regions Amendment Take Two (Sent to the Regions)

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Friendly

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Also, in case I need to advocate for this, I'll just point out this is the same bill that failed last time around.

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In a 3 region map, the mideast, by virtue of it's position, in it's current form, is unsaveable (that may not be a word. ) Besides the sensible left wing gerrymander would have the mideast (and maybe bits of the south) as a conservative pack, leaving the other 2 regions as strong left wing ones.

Having said that, this amendment emphatically does not change the regions- it allows the number of regions to be changed by a process that includes the mideast governor and 2/3rds of the atlasian population. If the mideast votes against consolidation it will almost certainly fail (unless everybody else votes for it, at which point, frankly, it deserves to succeed.)

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I don't see how potentially having consolidation stopped by a one vote margin in one small region like the pacific or midwest, while every other regions votes for it is more democratic than having 2/3rds of the people voting for it.

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Amendment is hostile

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Also, I'm motioning for cloture.

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I think Governor Zuwo would have a point here were regions not created beings. If the regions had come together to form atlasia, like US states did, then of course a region shouldn't be dissolved unless it so wished. But the key point is they didn't come together, atlasia created the regions. Regions are far more like counties than states.

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Nay

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There is no vote presently underway on this. The earliest is in about three hours.

Sorry about that- I saw 2 59 and then just voted, because it's past that here.

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Nay

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Aye

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Aye

Which I think means this (after the 24 hours) has passed.