Second Amendment to the Consolidated Electoral System Reform Act (At Final Vote)

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

I urge the President to veto this.

Or for someone to explain to me what it's supposed to accomplish.

It removes ambiguity as to what "midnight" means.

I thought so when it was introduced... but (beside the fact that that was never seriously ambiguous anyways) “The new election shall be held between 0001 Eastern Time on the second Friday after the initial election and 0001 Eastern Time on the first Friday thereafter, and shall conclude exactly 72 hours after the beginning.” does nothing of the kind. Instead gives the SoFA a whole week within which to pick an election date. Which seems to be totally out of order. The amendations to the text in Section 1 say the same thing (for a different situation). Anyhow it doesn't apply to the normal general election at all. And as the 9th Amendment continues to include the original text (opening between thu 00:00 and fri 00:01 - whatever that additional minute was supposed to accomplish ) it's actually flat-out unconstitutional.

There is an accompanying constitutional amendment to define "midnight" and replace Amendment IX, but it has not yet been presented for a vote yet.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

William F. Moderate
President