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Title: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Rejected] Post by: Marokai Backbeat on January 31, 2012, 08:09:23 AM Quote Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act Section 1: Procedure & Implementation 1. Citizens may now register official organizations known as a "Caucus" with the Registrar General and Census Bureau. 2. Membership in a caucus is optional and no restrictions may be placed on membership beyond limiting citizens to registering membership in no more than three caucuses. Leadership and administrative functions of a caucus shall be determined by the caucus itself. 3. A caucus shall be considered an "established caucus" when it gains five or more members. 4. To register as a member of a caucus, a citizen must declare their membership in the New Register Thread (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=34355.0) in accordance with the Register Thread Act (https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Register_Thread_Act) Section 2: Powers & Privileges 1. "Established" caucus names shall appear on election ballots next to the candidate's party. The Secretary of Federal Elections shall ensure that parties and caucuses are distinguished, such as by not but limited to different text sizes and bold text. 2. Caucuses shall have the same powers of name-changing and membership regulating as political parties in accordance with the Party Name Change Act (https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Party_Name_Change_Act) and Party Empowerment Act (https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Party_Empowerment_Act), respectively. (Slot: Forum Affairs/Emergency) (I'm interpreting these as forum affairs laws, and holding off on introducing any of the other amendments to that act to avoid confusion, because there's two more amendments to the original Act in the que right now and that could all be a clusterfukc.) Sponsor: TJ in Cleve Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: Mopsus on January 31, 2012, 10:34:37 AM Now that the two parties have agreed to dissolve, there isn't really any reason to oppose this.
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: Napoleon on January 31, 2012, 01:37:54 PM This is a disaster waiting to happen. Anyone who votes in favor of this bill is an idiot. There isn't even a point in having parties when you have other parties undermining that. Keep your caucuses off of my ballot!
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: Napoleon on January 31, 2012, 01:47:33 PM Now that the two parties have agreed to dissolve, there isn't really any reason to oppose this. So the new parties don't deserve any sort of legitimacy? Definitely not fair. People can have their stupid multiparty caucuses and they can also keep them off of ballots, the way any normal democracy functions. Or else why even limit caucuses? Why not five caucuses? Three caucuses certainly isn't enough. Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: Mopsus on January 31, 2012, 02:20:46 PM Now that the two parties have agreed to dissolve, there isn't really any reason to oppose this. So the new parties don't deserve any sort of legitimacy? Definitely not fair. People can have their stupid multiparty caucuses and they can also keep them off of ballots, the way any normal democracy functions. Or else why even limit caucuses? Why not five caucuses? Three caucuses certainly isn't enough. Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: Napoleon on January 31, 2012, 02:56:25 PM The only point of this bill is to put multiparty caucuses on the ballot, wholly undermining the parties we already have for no good reason at all. Caucuses can have whoever they want as a member but they don't need to be recognized by the SoFE. It isn't as if we are restricting freedom of assembly by not passing this.
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: tmthforu94 on January 31, 2012, 03:01:02 PM Anyone who votes in favor of this bill is an idiot. Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: Napoleon on January 31, 2012, 03:05:13 PM Anyone who votes in favor of this bill is an idiot. None of my colleagues have voted in favor of this bill! But yeah I do take my comment back. Seriously, though, this does more bad than good. Even if I did support this I would want to wait and see how the new parties develop before I go around stirring up trouble with such disruptions. Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: TJ in Oregon on January 31, 2012, 03:25:14 PM Now that the two parties have agreed to dissolve, there isn't really any reason to oppose this. So the new parties don't deserve any sort of legitimacy? Definitely not fair. People can have their stupid multiparty caucuses and they can also keep them off of ballots, the way any normal democracy functions. Or else why even limit caucuses? Why not five caucuses? Three caucuses certainly isn't enough. I am open to a different number of caucuses; that's not the main point of this bill, which, by the way was written long before the dissolution votes when it looked as if the RPP was not going to dissolve. I just fail to see why caucuses need to be limited to one party. Listing caucuses on the ballot at all is a little strange, but it's an interesting way to try to make them relevent, which otherwise would probably not happen. Immediately following the passage of the first caucus bill, there was a rush to join caucuses and a widespread confusion from non-members of the RPP and JCP as to why they were not allowed to officially join them. My purpose in this amendment is to fix that issue so that anyone can join. Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: Napoleon on January 31, 2012, 03:28:27 PM I would prefer abolition of all caucuses to this change. Again, WHY do they need to be on the ballot? We are going to have four sets of parties on the ballot now for each candidate? This is a joke.
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: tmthforu94 on January 31, 2012, 03:33:48 PM This is creating way too many complications.
Basically, more or less, a citizen can be a part of four organizations - 1 party and 3 caucus. Am I correct in that? We might as well let citizen's join as many parties as they want. Sure would help in securing zombie voters. Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: Lambsbread on January 31, 2012, 06:00:44 PM Yeah, at this point, it's a little unnecessary to pass this.
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: Marokai Backbeat on January 31, 2012, 06:13:58 PM I support multiparty caucuses, but I'm willing to let them go for a little while because the party situation right now is quite hectic and deserves to shake out on it's own for awhile. And even if we did let multiparty caucuses into law, there's no way I would support allowing people be a member of multiple multiparty caucuses.
I will not at all, however, support the abolition of caucuses. They have worked quite well so far and deserve to continue forward as part of Atlasia in the future. This mad dash Napoleon keeps trying to make to shutting down, limiting, or amending out of existence, any of the reforms this Senate passes, is baffling. Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: Napoleon on January 31, 2012, 06:20:09 PM Please point to where I said I wanted to get rid of the current caucus system.
I happen to be the only member of my party in a caucus! Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee on February 01, 2012, 01:35:04 AM Puts on Senate Dean Cap -
I would strongly encourage Senators not to engage in denegrating each other with personal insults. Thank You! Sen. NC Yankee, Senate Dean I am firmly opposed to caucuses appearing on ballots. I am partial to allowing people to have membership in more then one caucus and have no problem if there is multiple parties within a single caucus. Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: bgwah on February 01, 2012, 03:00:38 AM I've introduced an amendment to this bill that would allow us to suspend it. I definitely don't think it's necessary now.
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: Marokai Backbeat on February 01, 2012, 03:30:40 AM This is ridiculous. Caucuses have no negative side effects, and there is absolutely no harm in letting them continue as a permanent fixture of the game. I don't understand where this desire comes from to immediately try and wipe away things we just worked our asses off to pass for literally no reason.
Forgive me for getting a little pissed off at the thought of months and months of campaigning and screaming at people and writing legislation and compromising with people getting tossed aside just because some people think that just because we dissolved the big parties we're now perfectly solved and can just go back to the way things were. That is insane. Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee on February 02, 2012, 04:48:07 PM I guess if no one else is going to:
Quote from: Amendment Section 2, Clause 1 is stricken from the text. Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: bgwah on February 02, 2012, 10:01:34 PM This is ridiculous. Caucuses have no negative side effects, and there is absolutely no harm in letting them continue as a permanent fixture of the game. I don't understand where this desire comes from to immediately try and wipe away things we just worked our asses off to pass for literally no reason. Forgive me for getting a little pissed off at the thought of months and months of campaigning and screaming at people and writing legislation and compromising with people getting tossed aside just because some people think that just because we dissolved the big parties we're now perfectly solved and can just go back to the way things were. That is insane. and I still think it's silly to have two sets of parties on the ballot.... Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: Marokai Backbeat on February 08, 2012, 10:01:42 AM I guess if no one else is going to: Quote from: Amendment Section 2, Clause 1 is stricken from the text. I object. We are now voting on this amendment. Please vote aye, nay, or abstain. (and I strongly encourage people to vote nay, to protect the point of this entire system in the first place) Nay. Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Voting on Amendmt. #1] Post by: Lambsbread on February 08, 2012, 10:06:01 AM Nay.
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Voting on Amendmt. #1] Post by: Mopsus on February 08, 2012, 10:35:15 AM Nay
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Voting on Amendmt. #1] Post by: Napoleon on February 08, 2012, 01:01:15 PM Aye
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Voting on Amendmt. #1] Post by: Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee on February 09, 2012, 12:51:53 AM Aye
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Voting on Amendmt. #1] Post by: Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee on February 09, 2012, 12:57:19 AM I challenge the notion that the only way to play it is to have caucuses be placed on the ballots.
And I object to you sitting on my amendment for six days. :P Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Voting on Amendmt. #1] Post by: TJ in Oregon on February 09, 2012, 11:11:57 AM Nay
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Voting on Amendmt. #1] Post by: bgwah on February 09, 2012, 03:50:03 PM aye
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Voting on Amendmt. #1] Post by: Junkie on February 09, 2012, 04:55:53 PM Nay
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Voting on Amendmt. #1] Post by: Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian. on February 12, 2012, 07:14:04 PM Nay
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Voting on Amendmt. #1] Post by: Marokai Backbeat on February 13, 2012, 07:26:20 AM This amendment is failing. 24 hours~
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: Marokai Backbeat on February 14, 2012, 07:42:17 AM This amendment is failing. 24 hours~ This amendment has failed. I'll give people some more time to contribute something to this debate before moving on to the finish. Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [Debating] Post by: Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee on February 14, 2012, 06:35:42 PM As I saw it, the original purpose of this legislation had merit, but the presence of on-ballot caucuses was and is a deal breaker for me. Irreconcilably Nay, here.
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [At Final Vote] Post by: Marokai Backbeat on February 16, 2012, 01:48:25 AM This is now at a final vote. Please vote Aye, Nay, or Abstain.
Quote Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act Section 1: Procedure & Implementation 1. Citizens may now register official organizations known as a "Caucus" with the Registrar General and Census Bureau. 2. Membership in a caucus is optional and no restrictions may be placed on membership beyond limiting citizens to registering membership in no more than three caucuses. Leadership and administrative functions of a caucus shall be determined by the caucus itself. 3. A caucus shall be considered an "established caucus" when it gains five or more members. 4. To register as a member of a caucus, a citizen must declare their membership in the New Register Thread (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=34355.0) in accordance with the Register Thread Act (https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Register_Thread_Act) Section 2: Powers & Privileges 1. "Established" caucus names shall appear on election ballots next to the candidate's party. The Secretary of Federal Elections shall ensure that parties and caucuses are distinguished, such as by not but limited to different text sizes and bold text. 2. Caucuses shall have the same powers of name-changing and membership regulating as political parties in accordance with the Party Name Change Act (https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Party_Name_Change_Act) and Party Empowerment Act (https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Party_Empowerment_Act), respectively. Aye. Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [At Final Vote] Post by: Lambsbread on February 16, 2012, 06:29:37 AM Aye.
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [At Final Vote] Post by: TJ in Oregon on February 16, 2012, 10:14:57 AM Aye
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [At Final Vote] Post by: Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee on February 16, 2012, 09:35:04 PM Not only no, but HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [At Final Vote] Post by: Napoleon on February 16, 2012, 09:37:01 PM Not only no, but HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [At Final Vote] Post by: Lambsbread on February 16, 2012, 09:44:23 PM Not only no, but HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! o Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [At Final Vote] Post by: Mopsus on February 18, 2012, 10:24:00 AM Aye
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [At Final Vote] Post by: bgwah on February 18, 2012, 03:40:22 PM Nay
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [At Final Vote] Post by: Junkie on February 19, 2012, 12:18:23 AM Aye
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [At Final Vote] Post by: Marokai Backbeat on February 19, 2012, 04:50:16 AM Vote is currently 5-3.
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [At Final Vote] Post by: Lambsbread on February 19, 2012, 09:27:38 AM Switching my vote to Abstain.
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [At Final Vote] Post by: Fmr President & Senator Polnut on February 21, 2012, 04:18:14 PM Nay
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [At Final Vote] Post by: Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian. on February 24, 2012, 04:58:04 AM Abstain.
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [At Final Vote] Post by: Marokai Backbeat on February 24, 2012, 09:57:03 AM Due to voting regulation, Nathan's vote will not count, but it also won't matter, as this bill is tied at 4-4-1, and I'll PM the Vice President for a tie breaking vote.
Title: Re: Amendment to the Caucus Infrastructure and Formation Act [VP Needed] Post by: Bacon King on February 27, 2012, 08:38:43 AM Nay.
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