I'm a little bit confused. Are we rewriting the June 2019 amendment to the Electoral Procedures Act?
for reference:
vii. All such candidates as shall have met the requirements imposed by Article V of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Fremont, and being eligible to hold the office for which they are a candidate, shall be included on the sample ballot, provided that they are not candidates for more than one office, whether under this Commonwealth or the Republic of Atlasia, in an election or elections that occur on the same weekend.
Using strikethrough would held clarify that. If so, is the main change here that Senate/FM candidates should be allowed to run for multiple offices but Parliament candidates should not?
My understanding is that, yes, this was the intent. The initial act was primarily intended to prevent a repeat of what happened in (iirc April) 2018, when a number of candidates ran for both Parliament and for other offices, with relatively little intent to taking their seats in Parliament; they were mostly running in order to ensure their side had a stronger chance at winning a majority in Parliament since the body's size adapted to the number of candidates.
The seats formula has since been made more reasonable, but it was still decided that this restriction was necessary; however, since Senate and FM races can't be gamed in this way, it just becomes unnecessarily restrictive.
One other thing that was brought up at some point that I'd suggest be added to this bill is to exempt Presidential/VP runs completely from this. A lot of presidential runs are simply carried out for fun etc. and thus shouldn't preclude people from running for Parli. The current statute, for instance, is the reason Battista had to drop off of Koopa's ticket at the last moment.
