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I certainly wouldn't mind having the hearing, official or unofficial. We need to keep the process moving and it seems to constantly get bogged down.

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I hereby delegate "Introduction to Atlasia" duties to AG Marokai Blue.

Much appreciated, Mr President!

I'll get to work on that at my first opportunity tomorrow

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I'm willing to give Phil the benefit of the doubt

I look forward to his confirmation hearing.

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I would really like to see absentee voting abolished for future elections and perhaps replaced with an extended general election booth (lasting for five days to a week, perhaps?)

Not that I have a problem with people who don't need to use the absentee booth using it, but it does kind of defeat the purpose and I think it would be a lot simpler to only have one booth/thread. Thoughts?

I agree, and would vote for making the voting last for one week.

     I agree with this.

Personally I think that's a little silly. I want absentee voting abolished too, but I think elections are partly about turnout, and if someone doesn't get to vote, tough cookies. We shouldn't be extending elections just because we want to give everyone a year to vote. If you're going to do this for Presidential elections you may as well extend voting times for every election.

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I think 5 days would be a good compromise.

Five days is fine with me.

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It's looking like we'll have a majority of votes in the absentee booth, lol...

Yeah, it's a bit ridiculous. I think the 5-day long election with no absentee booth is best.

Alternatively, have an absentee booth opened the weekend before regular election weekend, but only for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Perhaps we should simply require people to give a reason why they have to vote absentee instead.

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I'm not entirely sure, but doesn't the Senate need to confirm the GM?

I believe we do. It may be an executive appointment, but as far as I know he still needs to be confirmed.

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I'm not entirely sure, but doesn't the Senate need to confirm the GM?

I believe we do. It may be an executive appointment, but as far as I know he still needs to be confirmed.

The GM act states that "the President shall appoint a GM at the advice and consent of the Senate."

Ebowed had to be confirmed by the Senate when he was appointed IIRC.