It is very sad that you proposed and signed a bill that treats the CJO as a prosecutor. As I told you when you proposed the bill, the CJO is NOT a prosecutor, but a judge.
Now, you've created a crime that has to be prosecuted by the CJO. Who is going to hear the case? There is no impartial Northeast judge to hear it. Are you expecting charges be filed before the Altasian Supreme Court? They could - and should - refuse to hear a case that is solely based on Northeast law. So your new law is unworkable.
Also, no regional government has the power to ban voting in a regional election. Federal law is supreme when it comes to voting rights.
Yes, that seems to be an oversight that I forgot to carry over when you amended the SirNick is a Terrorist Act. Considering the rapid pace that the Assembly is going at, I have full confidence a fix will be brought up soon.
I sent proposed language to Representative Winfield for a fix.
Like I said, though, I don't think we can ban someone from voting in regional elections. There is an old court case involving the South's attempts to put different requirements for voting in regional elections than the federal ones. The Atlasian Supreme Court held that they couldn't do so.
Also, while it's probably not your intent, a regional court can't ban anyone from holding federal office. The "at any level of goverment" clause at the end of the law can't mean that.
I was waiting for the appropriate time to intervene here. Yep, that court case (
Atlasia v. the Southeast II) was instigated by me during my time as Attorney General in 2010.
I argued (successfully, I might add) that since voter registration is inherently linked to citizenship, no region can maintain any form of voter registration that is different from the federal record.
