SENATE BILL: Empowering Regions in Elections Amendment (Failed)

[bgwah]

A fun idea in theory but far too complicated. The SoFE now has to keep track of five different voting booths, and potentially administer five separate kinds of elections (in addition to the Presidential election)? I won't be voting for this.

[bgwah]

I don't see how this will make Atlasia more interesting. Now, it could certainly make it more confusing.

[bgwah]

aye

[bgwah]

I would like to see us consider adopting regionally-based districts to equalize the populations a bit. I say regionally-based because although this seems like common sense if we're using districts, certain folks *cough VERIN cough* had a fetish for making the most bizarre maps possible.

I'm not sure I'll introduce it here, though. It seems like something that should be a different proposal. Especially since it has nothing to do with 'empowering' regions.

[bgwah]

abstain

[bgwah]

It has the potential to be complicated since there is a very long history of regional election administrators neglecting their duties and just plain not opening voting booths. You would almost certainly end up with regions voting for the Presidential elections at different times---and if you were strict and didn't allow this, some regions wouldn't get the full 72 hours or perhaps miss the election entirely. And that's not fair.

Having all five Senate elections together has worked mostly fine for about 7 years now. Don't fix something if it isn't broken.

[bgwah]

Nay, nay, nay