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Talleyrand
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« on: October 12, 2015, 03:27:37 PM »

If the issue here is voter fatigue (which I definitely agree with), we should just stipulate several possible dates in the year to vote on all constitutional amendments so you don't have one each week. Perhaps they should coincide with whatever the next federal election is, special or regular.
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Talleyrand
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« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2015, 03:35:02 PM »

That's a good idea. If it's an urgent, unanimous fix it should be voted on immediately. Anything else can wait.

Another thing we need to definitely have is the SoFE administer the booth. Enough waiting on 5 different regional executives to open five different booths in five different booths or whatever. The arguments for that existing were beyond inane, and proven garbage time and time again.

Also, how about we clarify that the amendment must receive 60% support nationwide to pass? If we still mandate it to be based on the regions, you could have a situation where it fails by 1 vote with very low turnout in two regions, while passes heavily with extremely high turnout in another. Thus, something an overwhelming majority of voters support would fail to pass.
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Talleyrand
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« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2015, 07:18:38 PM »

I don't know who proposed 67% as the requirement for the national referendum, but that is beyond ridiculous. You are trying to reinstitute the same legalism and inability to make any change that killed this game in the first place.

Keep in mind 60% of the vote nationwide almost always translates to 4/5 of regions anyway. I personally would support a lower threshold if not just an outright majority.
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