The Movement for Four Regions (M4R)

[Donerail]

No. Instead, how about we try to improve the Midwest so all regions can prosper. Don't get rid of them. People like Maxwell and MaxQue are helping their region, and I think that instead of ditching it, we all should improve them.

Indeed. Activity is cyclical, and won't be solved by just amputating different aspects of the game. I remember a time when most regions were total wastelands of activity, and that changed with time as regional reformists came and went. We're trying our best to undergo that same process in the Midwest right now. The Mideast has had trouble in the past, the Northeast has been reformed numerous times, the South used to be nothing more than a system of initiatives. Shooting the Midwest in the head just because they don't reach the standards of the other regions at this point in time is crazy.

It would help, of course, if people would actually stop leaving the region.

But wouldn't all those seem to point to the idea that we can only sustain four regions (with different regions being inactive at different times)? I don't want to "punish the Midwest" or anything, but, if we can only have four active regions, it makes sense that, if you're chopping off a region in order to make four that are fully active, it'd be a centrally-located one that currently has low activity. Although I think that any map would be something more like:

But in the end, this is an elections game, and there's no fun if you're not having any competitive elections.

[Donerail]

Section 4: Homesteading Empty States

After the first general election following adoption of the amendment in Section 1, if any State is unpopulated, then not withstanding any other provision of law, a voter currently registered in a State which is in the same Region may freely move to that State, provided he is not currently registered in a State which is underpopulated. Also a voter currently registered in a State which is not in the same Region as an underpopulated State may move to that State if he has not changed his State of registration within the last 60 days, provided he is not currently registered in a State which is underpopulated. For purposes of this section, a State is underpopulated if it has less than one-fifty second of the population of Atlasia, as determined by the registered voter list maintained by the Registrar General.

Intraregional moves I believe are able to be made once every... 48 hours? 24? Something very short.

[Donerail]

Section 4: Homesteading Empty States

After the first general election following adoption of the amendment in Section 1, if any State is unpopulated, then not withstanding any other provision of law, a voter currently registered in a State which is in the same Region may freely move to that State, provided he is not currently registered in a State which is underpopulated. Also a voter currently registered in a State which is not in the same Region as an underpopulated State may move to that State if he has not changed his State of registration within the last 60 days, provided he is not currently registered in a State which is underpopulated. For purposes of this section, a State is underpopulated if it has less than one-fifty second of the population of Atlasia, as determined by the registered voter list maintained by the Registrar General.

Intraregional moves I believe are able to be made once every... 48 hours? 24? Something very short.

Once every month according to the constitution, not that it matters since at present it doesn't affect anything if you move from one state to another in the same region.  It could matter back when we had districts.

My proposal does a minimum change to the constitution in that it leaves the permanent constitutional provisions exactly as they are according to the wiki save that it adds authority to the Senate to change them, but not so often as to be confusing. The RG doesn't have to worry about a last minute change in the law concerning when people can move.

Sections 2, 3, and 4 could be adopted in any combination or a bare bones amendment with no legislation awaiting ratification.  I bifurcated the waiting period in section 4 because the current law bifurcates it.  If the senate wants to adopt a uniform waiting period to move to an empty state if could do that as well.

Under the First Amendment it's once every 24 hours.