MA: An Amendment to reduce the size of the Mideast Assembly (Tabled)

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

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Sponsor: ZuWo

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

ZuWo, do you want to keep debate going, or are you withdrawing this?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

We could always base the Assembly off of the number of declared candidates.  If the number of declared candidates is X or lower, it's 3.  If it's greater than X, it's 5.  Any thoughts on that?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

We could always base the Assembly off of the number of declared candidates.  If the number of declared candidates is X or lower, it's 3.  If it's greater than X, it's 5.  Any thoughts on that?

I like that idea. A first suggestion could be that if the number of declared candidates is greater than 5, it's 5 seats. If only 5 or fewer people declare that they will run, the Assembly has 3 seats.

Could we simply amend the Constitution by adding such a clause to the section which currently says that the Assembly has 5 seats?

Yeah, we can have quite an easy fix, I think.  I just don't want to introduce an amended amendment until we have a consensus of 1) if this is a good idea and 2) what the threshhold should be.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

So, MOPolitico says the threshold to bump up to 5 seats should be 5 candidates.
ZuWo says the threshold should be 6.

Personally, I'm leaning toward ZuWo's opinion (that was the number I had in my head).  Does anybody else have an opinion?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I vote 6, including write-ins, that makes a competitive election.

I disagree with write-ins.  I think the number should be set in stone before voting starts.  Otherwise, if people only vote for 3 people, and more people get written in, voters who vote at the beginning get burned.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

OK.  This complicates things a bit more, and I'm going to need some time to come up with an amendment to the Constitution as well as put in some fixes for the statutes (we should probably just write a new election law - even if it stays basically the same, we've amended it so many times, it'd be nice to keep track of everything in one law).

I ask unanimous consent to table this amendment.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Hearing no objection, the amendment is tabled.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I recommend that you scan all the other bills (and all the other articles of the Constitution) to check all the other changes you have to make with this reduction.

That's exactly what I'll be doing.  And is precisely why I want to hold off on this.  We've amended our elections laws enough... it's time to just merge it into a brand new one and repeal the old one, so we don't have amendments overwriting amendments.