Bacon King vs. Census Bureau

[Bacon King]

Your honors,

After the 2016 reset of Atlasian law, all laws allowing/facilitating at-will deregistration ceased to exist. However, for three years the Census Bureau has continued the process, illegally removing citizens from the voter rolls upon the voter's request even though they had no legal authority to do so.

I seek legal action to rectify this situation, especially concerning the consequences of any officeholders who would have continued holding office while their names were illegally removed from the voter rolls; Any individuals who were removed from the voter roles so recently that they still meet election activity requirements, and therefore should still be considered legal citizens; all special elections deemed invalid by the fact that the "former" officeholder attempted to deregister without officially resigning from their office; and special consideration to Senate candidate Sestak, who may potentially be denied lawful election because a request for deregistration he made during the election itself (a request which, of course, is meaningless, since that request cannot be legally met).

[windjammer]

Your honors,

After the 2015 reset of Atlasian law, all laws allowing/facilitating at-will deregistration ceased to exist. However, for three years the Census Bureau has continued the process, illegally removing citizens from the voter rolls upon the voter's request even though they had no legal authority to do so.

I seek legal action to rectify this situation, especially concerning the consequences of any officeholders who would have continued holding office while their names were illegally removed from the voter rolls; Any individuals who were removed from the voter roles so recently that they still meet election activity requirements, and therefore should still be considered legal citizens; all special elections deemed invalid by the fact that the "former" officeholder attempted to deregister without officially resigning from their office; and special consideration to Senate candidate Sestak, who may potentially be denied lawful election because a request for deregistration he made during the election itself (a request which, of course, is meaningless, since that request cannot be legally met).

Are you sure there is no provision in some federal laws about it?

[Bacon King]

Your honors,

After the 2015 reset of Atlasian law, all laws allowing/facilitating at-will deregistration ceased to exist. However, for three years the Census Bureau has continued the process, illegally removing citizens from the voter rolls upon the voter's request even though they had no legal authority to do so.

I seek legal action to rectify this situation, especially concerning the consequences of any officeholders who would have continued holding office while their names were illegally removed from the voter rolls; Any individuals who were removed from the voter roles so recently that they still meet election activity requirements, and therefore should still be considered legal citizens; all special elections deemed invalid by the fact that the "former" officeholder attempted to deregister without officially resigning from their office; and special consideration to Senate candidate Sestak, who may potentially be denied lawful election because a request for deregistration he made during the election itself (a request which, of course, is meaningless, since that request cannot be legally met).

Are you sure there is no provision in some federal laws about it?

There is no provision in any federal law that allows it.

[windjammer]

Writ of Certiorari

The Supreme Court of Atlasia grants certiorari to hear the question of whether Peebs deregistered many posters incorrectly.

Schedule

Petitioner has seventy-two hours to file her brief.  It is expected no later than 8:00PM EDT on  Wednesday, July 25, 2018.

Respondent has an additional seventy-two hours to file his brief.  It is expected no later than 8:00PM EDT on Saturday, July 28, 2016.

Amicus Briefs will be accepted until 2:00PM EDT on Sunday, July 29, 2018.

Additional time may be granted to either party, and the right of either party to respond to the filed briefs may be granted upon request.

A period of argument (Q&A) will be scheduled after presentation of the briefs in case any member of the Court has any questions for the parties.

[Poirot]

Amicus brief on the respondent side

It is possible to deregister even if there is no specific legislation adopted by the fantasy government post reset.

I) Atlasia's mother country is the United States and it inherited its legislation. It is possible in the USA for an individual to take action to be removed from the voters list. The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 allows the removal of a registrant’s name from the list of eligible voters, provided that this information is confirmed in writing by the registrant.


II) In the Atlasian constitution, Article I, Section XIII states:

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We can view deregistration in a few ways that suggest that the court should view deregistration as a natural right that we can assume to be unlisted.

It's probably worth pointing out that Article 1 Section V of the constitution specifically references "life, liberty, and property," which considering those things are the hallmark of Lockean political philosophy, We can assume that the founders of Atlasian meant to enshrine the Lockean principles of natural and inalienable rights in the constitution.

Article I, Section V: No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

And something that is essential to Locke's inalienable rights is the ability of individuals to protect their own life, liberty, and property, so long as it does not deprive others of their own lives or liberty.

For example: "Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other." - John Locke

When we're thinking about the concept of participating in Atlasia, the foundational decision is the decision of whether or not to join the game in the first place. When someone signs up for the game (assuming they meet the very lenient standards of posts and account age), they can join freely and participate. Participating often means being indirectly involved in campaigns and elections, polls, and other Atlasian activities. For example, when someone joins Atlasia, they are put on the voter rolls on the census so people playing the game know to include them in private messages for campaigns, polls, and the like.

To consider the choice of registering for Atlasia to be a one-way ticket as opposed to a roundtrip with the possibility of leaving the game and withdrawing the consent that was freely given to be a part of the game and receive private messages would be to fundamentally miss the point of the original choice. It was an act of free will, an act of giving explicit consent to join the game and to be put on the voter rolls to receive PMs. The idea that consent, once given, can be freely withdrawn, should fall under the umbrella of natural, inalienable rights. Anyone should be able to withdraw their name from the voter rolls if they choose.

It's also worth noting that while there may be no law explicitly granting the right of deregistration, there is also no law explicitly denying such right and that perhaps the reason for this is that the right is assumed under Article I of the constitution as an inalienable natural right.


III) The right to leave one's own country is enshrined in international law under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and also mentioned in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights - both of which Atlasia is a party to.

ICCPR Article 12

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https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/ccpr.aspx


The Registrar General did nothing illegal by removing people from the voter roll at their request. The Registrar followed the instruction of citizend exercising a fundamental right. I ask the Court to respect the free choice of citizens who voluntarily deregistered by not putting them back on the voter roll or undoing elections held following deregistration of officeholder.
 
I thank the Court for reading this and the person who worked on this brief.

[Blair]

I thank Poirot for filling this brief, and I''ll contact both BaconKing and Peebs about publishing the cases.

[windjammer]

BaconKing for the record has informed me of some personal issues he has right now. He will post his brief when these issues will be settled.

[windjammer]

This court case is withdrawn as BaconKing has left the forum.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

This court case is withdrawn as BaconKing has left the forum.

I ask the court what they are basing BaconKing having left the forum and/or game on. He did not post an official post announcing his departure, he is not currently an elected official (so no laws relating to elected officials activity apply), and he last voted in an election on July 29, so his activity in that regard is also fine.

[tmthforu94]

He was online earlier today.

[windjammer]

This court case is withdrawn as BaconKing has left the forum.

I ask the court what they are basing BaconKing having left the forum and/or game on. He did not post an official post announcing his departure, he is not currently an elected official (so no laws relating to elected officials activity apply), and he last voted in an election on July 29, so his activity in that regard is also fine.

- His own words on discord
- he has missed the deadline by quite a lot of days