SB 121-04: Officeholders Need to Show up Amendment - Failed

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

Amendment, making this retroactive strikes me as not the best of ideas.

Officeholders Need to Show up Amendment

To the end of Article VIII Section 3 of the Constitution, add the following:

3. If any officeholder, elected or appointed, federal, regional, or subregional, fails to vote in a regularly scheduled election they are eligible to vote in, they shall immediately and automatically forfeit any office held or won. Additionally, for one's election to office to be valid, they must cast a vote in said election. This clause shall be retroactive to April 2024. be enforced beginning with the June 2024 elections.

Amendment Explanation:

This amendment will help remedy the situation of chronically absent officeholders leaving themselves and the nation in limbo for months, by having any officeholder who misses a regularly scheduled election automatically forfeit any office held or won, and by requiring one to vote in an election in order to win any election. This does NOT require one to vote for any particular candidate or affect anyone's citizenship.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

Aye

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

If this gets ratified in June, will that make it an ex post facto law? If so we’d need to extend the timeframe for enforcement to August.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

If this gets ratified in June, will that make it an ex post facto law? If so we’d need to extend the timeframe for enforcement to August.

If it is passed here in a timely fashion, Fremont will ratify it concurrently with its local elections. Lincoln will have a special booth to ratify it. That will complete the 2 required regions.

Alright, no objections here then. I just wanted to make sure we could get this done in time.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

Aye

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

So nine officeholders didn't show up to vote on the Officeholders Need To Show Up Amendment?

ironic.