Simfan, you're embarrassing yourself. Please come back when you have attained time in Atlasia enough to be informed about these matters
Okay, I'll revise it to use the 24 hour clause, and with it, I can simplify my proposed section 4, since there is no need to shorten a 24 hour waiting period.
Homesteading Act of 2013 (2nd proposal)
Whereas from time to time certain Regions and States of Atlasia have become underpopulated and thus have vacant land waiting to be used for the well-being of this Republic, let the following be done:
Section 1: Amendment
The following amendment to the Third Constitution shall be sent to the Regions for approval.
Article V Section 2 Clause 6 shall be amended to read as follows:
Persons may only change their State of registration from one Region to another Region once every 180 days. Changes in State of registration within a single Region may occur once every 24 hours. The Senate may by law alter these restrictions, but no such law shall take effect until after the next general election following the passage of such a law.
Section 2: Restoring the Free Move
After the first general election following adoption of the amendment in Section 1, Persons who have not changed their State of registration since their initial registration shall be able to freely move to any other State, irrespective of Region.
Section 3: Homesteading Underpopulated Regions
After the first general election following adoption of the amendment in Section 1, if any Region in underpopulated, then not withstanding any other provision of law, a voter may freely move to any State within that Region, provided he is not currently registered in a State that is in a Region which is underpopulated. For purposes of this section, a Region is underpopulated if it has less than three-twentieths of the population of Atlasia, as determined by the registered voter list maintained by the Registrar General.
Section 4: Homesteading Empty States
After the first general election following adoption of the amendment in Section 1, if any State is unpopulated, then not withstanding any other provision of law, a voter currently registered in a State which is not in the same Region as that State may move to that State if he has not changed his Region of registration within the last 60 days.
Yes please! This is, essentially, the biggest problem facing the Midwest - unlike previous periods with inactivity in the MW and other regions, no one is moving here to try to help fix it.
