Senate Candidates Unopposed

[JohnFKennedy]

I don't understand...did we re-open the filing deadline?

We haven't yet, people want us to though.

I support re-opening filing, but the decision needs to be made soon.  What if there need to be primaries?

i am also in favor of reopening it, good question though Nick, JFK can you answer?

There do not need to be primaries, nobody has more than 1 person wanting to run for a region or district now mas has said he will endorse michael z.

[Emsworth]

I think it might be too late to reopen filing at this point.  Can people run as write-in candidates?  Also, I think half the seats are up again in two month for people who didn't get a chance to run this time.

In the future, I would suggest something like the following:
- The filing deadline for the GENERAL election should be around 10 days before the election (as opposed to 20 now).  At this point, Independents can file, and the parties will announce their nominees for each seat.
- The parties can decide for themselves how and when they nominate candidates where primaries are needed, but in any case the primaries must be done by the general election filing deadline.
- With a filing deadline close to the election, and no restrictions on Independent candidacies, I don't think we should allow write-ins in the future.

Just my thoughts...

I agree. The present filing deadline should not be visciated; rather, the new Senate could consider amendments to the constitution. The question then remains: if a person has dropped out, can that person rejoin before the filing deadline?

[Gustaf]

Sod the dead-lines. You're taking out a lot of fun for no good reason. I have no idea why we had them to begin with. In any case, the time difference was way too big. Finally, I am PRESUMING that the Atlas Citizens are allowed to vote for whoever they wish. And that the candidate who wins wins regardless of whether he was filed somewhere or not. And since all votes are de facto write-ins, it basically wouldn't matter.

Were these dead-lines in the constitution, or what?

[ShapeShifter]

Sod the dead-lines. You're taking out a lot of fun for no good reason. I have no idea why we had them to begin with. In any case, the time difference was way too big. Finally, I am PRESUMING that the Atlas Citizens are allowed to vote for whoever they wish. And that the candidate who wins wins regardless of whether he was filed somewhere or not. And since all votes are de facto write-ins, it basically wouldn't matter.

Were these dead-lines in the constitution, or what?

what is SoD?

[Gustaf]

Sod the dead-lines. You're taking out a lot of fun for no good reason. I have no idea why we had them to begin with. In any case, the time difference was way too big. Finally, I am PRESUMING that the Atlas Citizens are allowed to vote for whoever they wish. And that the candidate who wins wins regardless of whether he was filed somewhere or not. And since all votes are de facto write-ins, it basically wouldn't matter.

Were these dead-lines in the constitution, or what?

what is SoD?

I don't know exactly, but the meaning here would be 'to hell with', or something similar...

[ShapeShifter]

Sod the dead-lines. You're taking out a lot of fun for no good reason. I have no idea why we had them to begin with. In any case, the time difference was way too big. Finally, I am PRESUMING that the Atlas Citizens are allowed to vote for whoever they wish. And that the candidate who wins wins regardless of whether he was filed somewhere or not. And since all votes are de facto write-ins, it basically wouldn't matter.

Were these dead-lines in the constitution, or what?

what is SoD?

I don't know exactly, but the meaning here would be 'to hell with', or something similar...

I thought it stand for ... shi- on da

[JohnFKennedy]

Sod the dead-lines. You're taking out a lot of fun for no good reason. I have no idea why we had them to begin with. In any case, the time difference was way too big. Finally, I am PRESUMING that the Atlas Citizens are allowed to vote for whoever they wish. And that the candidate who wins wins regardless of whether he was filed somewhere or not. And since all votes are de facto write-ins, it basically wouldn't matter.

Were these dead-lines in the constitution, or what?

what is SoD?

I don't know exactly, but the meaning here would be 'to hell with', or something similar...

I thought it stand for ... shi- on da

nope, doesn't stand for anything, it is slang

it just means like screw

so screw the deadline.

[Emsworth]

so screw the deadline.

This is exactly what I oppose... How can we arbitrarily decide to undo the deadline? There is no valid basis to do so: the issue should have been addressed earlier, when we were actually debating the constitution (speaking of which, where is its final version?). There is no fun being "taken out;" randomly dismissing deadlines on the whims of certain persons leads to chaos.

[Gustaf]

so screw the deadline.

This is exactly what I oppose... How can we arbitrarily decide to undo the deadline? There is no valid basis to do so: the issue should have been addressed earlier, when we were actually debating the constitution (speaking of which, where is its final version?). There is no fun being "taken out;" randomly dismissing deadlines on the whims of certain persons leads to chaos.

No, it wouldn't lead to chaos. And I never debated the ocnstitution, n/c we wouldn't have one ver if I and others had...I just trusted that it wouldn't contain a lot of idiocy.

And there is definitely fun being taken out when races are prevented from being competitive and unopposed senators are allowed to run.

[JohnFKennedy]

so screw the deadline.

This is exactly what I oppose... How can we arbitrarily decide to undo the deadline? There is no valid basis to do so: the issue should have been addressed earlier, when we were actually debating the constitution (speaking of which, where is its final version?). There is no fun being "taken out;" randomly dismissing deadlines on the whims of certain persons leads to chaos.

woah woah, that isn't my opinion, I was saying screw the deadline is what sod the deadline means LOL.

[JohnFKennedy]

I think we should allow michael and wildcard to run though.....

[JohnFKennedy]

WildCard declared candidacy before the deadline and only withdrew because he was AFRNC chairman and Michael apparently didn't know about the thread to declare it and sent an e-mail to Miami to tell him he wanted to run for senate.