FT 19.03 Amendment to the Electoral Procedures 2.0 Act (Statute)

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So some backstory to how this got put into place in the first place.

In the past we'd flood the ballot with candidates who were running for offices to increase the size of Parliament. This would fail for 2 reasons.

1. Large Parliaments are not amazing places to foster new talent as their size can lead to people getting lost in the crowd).
2. At such size, it can be harder to find adequate replacements especially in a region this small because the talent pool is depleted, and with more people in Parliament, there are bound to be more turnover and in turn weekly (our election laws were different at the time) by-elections.

April 2019 was the tipping point in which Jimmy and fhtagn were both elected to Parliament and proceeded to the House (with ASV losing the lone House seat). SBS then resigned setting up 3 vacancies and our efforts to recruit people for the open seats fell short. So we had to call a snap just to downsize Parliament and ram through a series of election bills and amendments to fix this, including this one.

However, this change has prevented people from running from House and Senate at the same time as well as making meme presidential runs while running for a more serious office which I think is a step too far.

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Oh now I see what I did.

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I assume you're sponsoring Sestak's amendment then from a procedural standpoint.

No objections.

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From a procedural standpoint, an amendment is not a bill so I’d argue otherwise and probably not a great precedent to set but I also don’t want to be harsh with this

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Aye