Electoral Reform Amendment (Passed)

[Lief 🗽]

Aye

[TNF]

Abstain

[Cranberry]

Aye

[bore]

Aye

This has enough votes to pass, senators have 24 hours to change their votes

[SWE]

Nay

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Abstain

I don't really have an opinion on whether or not to demand continguous districts and as Adam said, such will probably never be necessary because Canada sllows more manuevering room obviously.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

AYE

[windjammer]

I will present an another amendment today, my last amendment for this bill.

[bore]

By a vote of 6-2-1 windjammer's amendment has been adopted

Aye: Bore, Polnut, Cranberry, Lief, Windjammer, Cris

Nay: SWE

Abstain: Yankee, TNF

[windjammer]

Very well.
My last amendment:

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Well, well, just to make sure there will still be an at large election.
Why? Simply I wouldn't want the senate to have to break 256 rules in order to change something at the last minute. Nothing is perfect!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Wouldn't it be better to just make it August period. The districts will take time to sort out and such forth and rushing it to try for April may not be wise.

[windjammer]

Wouldn't it be better to just make it August period. The districts will take time to sort out and such forth and rushing it to try for April may not be wise.

That's the amendment I have proposed Yankee .

[TNF]

I object to the proposed amendment.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Wouldn't it be better to just make it August period. The districts will take time to sort out and such forth and rushing it to try for April may not be wise.

That's the amendment I have proposed Yankee .

The "Following" part implies following passage no? That would be April unless this takes longer obviously.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

I'm not quite sure what you're intending here, Windjammer. The language of your amendment does make it sound like you want this proposal to go into effect for the first election following the passage of the bill. I think we should set it firm at August 2015.

[windjammer]

Ooooops sorry, so I withdraw my amendment and I will try to improve a bit grammar.

[Talleyrand]

Why not just say the next Class B Senate election upon the ratification of this amendment? That way you won't put in a concrete timetable for implementation into an amendment which might not be ratified until well after that point.

[Senator Cris]

Amendment offered:

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[Cranberry]

Seems pretty straightforward and sensible to me.

[windjammer]

And considering bore was the sponsor for this bill.

I would like to become the new sponsor if it doesn't bother anyone.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

If it's all the same Senator, I also like to assume sponsorship

[windjammer]

Yes, Polnut, you're right. Considering I had assumed sponsorship of some Lumine's bills/amendment, I could have a problem with the clogging rules.
So I withdraw my request of becoming the new sponsor and I support Polnut becoming the new sponsor.

[windjammer]

Wait, are we going not to have an at large election anymore?

[HagridOfTheDeep]

That seems to have been the plan from the beginning, yes.

I'm nervous to make it "the next Class B election" because we need to make sure we have the full three months to draw te boundaries.

[windjammer]

That seems to have been the plan from the beginning, yes.

I'm nervous to make it "the next Class B election" because we need to make sure we have the full three months to draw te boundaries.

Yes, that's exactly my problem too.

1) If there is a problem with the bill in itself, it would be terrible to have to violate 256 rules in order to fix the problems between the elections.

2) And for every person who ever did party GOVT, that would be a total mess now. I mean, we're just 1 month before the election. The time we pass that this constitutional amendment and the time regions approve the constitutional amendment: that will likely be 2 weeks before the elections: so very a short time to draw maps.