Northeast Assembly Thread II

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I support Blair.

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...So do I need to open an election for speaker?

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Ok. Nominations for Speaker are open for 24 hours (until 8:30 PM on April 1).

(On the topic of speaker, Matt should be the temporary Speaker, but considering he's on a LOA, I'm not sure who has the position currently, considering seniority for Clyde and Winfield are equal for the current term.)

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I nominate dkrol.

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Nominations are closed. Members have 24 hours to vote for a Speaker (until 9:03, April 2)

Ballot:
[ ] dkrol

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With the opening of the new Assembly, nominations for Speaker will open for 24 hours.

I nominate dkrol.

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Congratulations to dkrol for winning! (I'm really sorry about not being able to close the booth on time. Finals+other things are being a strain.)

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Does anyone know where the current version of the SOAP is? I want to put in the Civic Information Thread, but I can't find a complete, updated version since bore made his amendments.

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Is everyone fine with me not opening the Speaker election until Monday (or before if we have 4 people in the Assembly) considering RGN's loa and whatever's going on with twistory?

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I've appointed DemPGH to serve, so we'll have five.

Ok. I'll start nominations when he swears in.

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With PGH swearing in, nominations for Speaker will now be open for 24 hours.

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I nominate Castro.

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It looks as if Castro has won the Speakership.

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The session's open, and RGN's leave ends today regardless.

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sorry, I've been away for the last 3 days for freshman orientation, but yeah nominations are open for 24 hours.

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I nominate evergreen

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Congratulations to Speaker evergreen!

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Is anything happening in the Northeast Assembly? 

Since my appointment August 12 to fill in the rest of the term because of a vacancy, I have been checking in every day, more than once a day, and there is nothing going on in the Assembly.

Is it going to be like this until the election? 

If so, why bother even appointing anyone to the Assembly to fill a vacancy?

I've put some stuff in the queue now, but you're right, we need more active legislators right now...

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Just as a reminder, the LG will be opening up a Speakership election soon.

Also, we have a bit of a backlog when it comes to bills right now, which is exciting.

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Well, this is different from the usual.

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For the record, write-in's are not allowed per the SOAP.

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Apologies, guys. RL busted in today. Meetings this morning that went way over and backed up the afternoon due to someone's poor communication.

I'm extending this another 24 hrs. It will end tomorrow morning 10:55. Meanwhile, I'll figure out how to handle write-in votes. I don't see anything that governs how this should be done. Nothing in the statutes and nothing in the NE constitution. I do agree that 24 hrs. is short notice.

Simplest way imo is to just disregard the first preferences of write-in voters, and just move on their number twos.

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I would like to run for Speaker.

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Of course,

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Is there any amendment that changed the voting time from 48 hours to 24 hours?

...nope.

I made a mistake....