Restoration of CESRA Act (Law'd Wiki'd and Beset by Dustbunnies)

[minionofmidas]

Restoration of CESRA Act

The Second Amendment to the Consolidated Electoral System Reform Act (F.L.26-3) is hereby repealed.


Sponsor: Lewis Trondheim

[minionofmidas]

All you need to know is here and here.

[Torie]

You will need to walk the mentally challenged, aka moi,  through this all slowly. Process bills give me a headache.

[minionofmidas]

F.L.26-3 passed, it would seem, because people who voted on it didn't know what they were doing and I awoke to it too late. I'm just tieing up the loose ends here, really.

Second Amendment to the Consolidated Electoral System Reform Act

Be it resolved that:

Section 3, Clause 1 shall be amended as follows:
1. Strike the first instance of “midnight Eastern Standard Time on the first Thursday” and amend by inserting “0001 Eastern Time on the first Friday”.
2. Strike the second instance of “standard”.

Section 5, Clause 1 shall be amended as follows:
1. Strike existing Section 5, Clause 1 in its entirity.
2. Insert new Section 5, Clause 1 to read as follows:
“The new election shall be held between 0001 Eastern Time on the second Friday after the initial election and 0001 Eastern Time on the first Friday thereafter, and shall conclude exactly 72 hours after the beginning.”

These sections do to runoff and post-NOTA-victory special elections what the rejected Constitutional Amendment would have done to General and Special elections, ie change the poll-opening window to a whole week, beginning on the day after the day polls currently open.
This was in a bill separate from the constitutional Amendment because these types of elections are not actually mentioned in the Constitution's text as it stands.

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This either does nothing whatsoever (my pov) or changes the poll-opening window provided for by what was at the time called the "Flexi-Time Amendment" from one minute to 24 h and 1 minute (lol). I don't know what the minute was supposed to be for, but it's in the XI Amendment - polls opening sometime between Midnight Thursday and 00:01am Friday.

So, well, if someone wants to introduce an Amendment to repeal only the first two sections, I won't mind.

[Sensei]

I've got nothing against this .

[minionofmidas]

Moving for a final vote.

Please vote aye, nay or abstain.

Aye.

[Verily]

Aye

[Јas]

Aye

[Sensei]

aye

[DownWithTheLeft]

Aye

[Filuwaúrdjan]

ayer

[Хahar 🤔]

ayer

That's Spanish for "yesterday".

[minionofmidas]

Aye 6 (Lewis, Verily, Jas, Sensei, Dwtl, Al)
Nay 0
abstain (voted) 0
abstain (did not vote) 4 (Torie, Meeker, Culture, Bacon)

Being unanimous, there is no 24 hours extra.

This bill is presented to the President for his signature.

[Torie]

Man, that was quick. Voting was only open for 24 hours?

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

I suppose there's no point in actually fighting this one, is there?

[minionofmidas]

Man, that was quick. Voting was only open for 24 hours?

This is the way the Senate's supposed to be. -_-

I suppose there's no point in actually fighting this one, is there?

I notice you haven't signed yet.

[Bacon King]

wow, don't know how I missed this one.

aye ftr.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

William F. Moderate
President

[minionofmidas]

Here I was expecting a pocket signature from you, but no...

[Brandon H]

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Restoration of CESRA Act