FINAL RATIFICATION VOTE PART 2 - AMENDMENTS

[minionofmidas]

Vote is open 72 hours until March 31st, 6:00 am Eastern Time.
All registered voters may vote (see list in register! thread)

Please vote
-yes or no on Demrepdan's First Amendment
-yes or no on Demrepdan's Second Amendment
-yes or no on Demrepdan's Third Amendment
-yes or no on Demrepdan's Fifth Amendment

On Demrepdan's Fourth Amendment, please indicate which Regions and Districts Plan you prefer:
a) the one currently in the draft
b) the one currently in the draft, but with Missouri and Nebraska reversed in the Regions plan
c) Regions plan E and Districts plan D from the Regions Vote thread (I'll dig it up in a second)
d) against all
This vote will be held by Australian-style preferential voting.

Finally, please vote whether there should be a sixth amendment providing for Australian-style preferential voting or no.

http://www.geocities.com/demrepdan/forum-constitution2

Oh, PS: I know I don't have any legal authority to set this up. But if nobody does it, I figure we'll never have a constitution. And time is running out fast.

[minionofmidas]

yes on the first amendment
yes on the second amendment
yes on the third amendment
NO on the fifth amendment, which doesn't really seem to add anything -EDIT- This used to say "abstain" -
Fourth amendment vote:
c-b-d-a
yes on a preferential voting amendment (I have changed my mind on this)

[minionofmidas]

Neither of whom voted on the preferential voting thing? Or did you overlook the fifth amendment?
Just to make sure all votes get counted right, please note abstentions.

[minionofmidas]

Okay something I don't understand is you can't swap Nebraska and Missouri in the district plan because their in the same one from what I can see

Oops. Regions, of course.

[minionofmidas]

im chanigng my vote, i dont want pv it was a mistake

We had that issue before...You should not be able to change a vote cast. I'll admit we didn't really have a constructive debate on it...At the very least, I demand that to change your vote, you edit your original post and clearly mark it as edited and what the changes are, rather than putting a post somewhere in teh middle. Makes it easier to count ballots...

[minionofmidas]

You still have seven hours to vote, so I'm just moving this back to page one...

[minionofmidas]

There are seven abstentions on what regions plan to use out of 22 ballots cast: by Dunn, Reaganfan, supersoulty, Demrepdan, StatesRights, Gustaf and MAS.
There are nine first preference votes for Plan C, 5 for Plan A and one for Plan B (none for "Plan" D, btw, though it got two second preferences).

The first, second and third amendments are sailing through, 20-0-2 abstentions for the first, 19-1-2 for the other two.
The fifth amendment appears also to be passing unless there's a big surge in turnout in the next few hours: 14-5-3.
The Preferential voting amendment is going down to the wire, with 10 no, 8 yes, 3 abstentions.

[minionofmidas]

I proclaim the final results:
The First Amendment was passed by a vote of 21 to 0 with 2 abstentions.
The Second Amendment was passed by a vote of 20 to 1 with 2 abstentions.
The Third Amendment was passed by a vote of 20 to 1 with 2 abstentions.
On the Fourth Amendment, there were 9 first preference votes for Plan C, 6 first preference votes for Plan A, 1 first preference vote for Plan B, 6 abstentions and and one ballot that I have to reject because it does not state a first preference (Demrepdan's). I hereby declare Plan C and the Amendment to have passed.
The Fifth Amendment was passed by a vote of 15 to 5 with 3 abstentions.
The Preferential Voting (Sixth) Amendment was passed by a vote of 11 to 10 with 2 abstentions.

[minionofmidas]

Here's a breakdown by political party of the Preferential vote:
Democrats
for 7
against 5
abstention 1

Republicans
for 1
against 4
abstention 1

Progressives
for 3
against 1

[minionofmidas]

I can provide you with a list, Hughento...
in reverse chronological order...reverse because it's not polite to start off with oneself...
Dunn
Al
Gustaf
yourself
StatesRights
Beet
the President, nym90
of_this_nation
the Vice President, Harry
NickG
Lewis Trondheim

[minionofmidas]

Six minutes to go, actually.

[minionofmidas]

You can look it up...