I am against the Voting clarification amendment.
I prefer to keep the voting period 72 hours that ends at the strike of midnight like it was always. It's a long enough period to vote and adding one minute is not essential.
That being said if there is clarification on voting hours it should be made in the electoral law and not the Bill of Rights in the constitution. There could be consequences in putting voting hours in the bill of Rights. Does this mean no other election at any level can be held except from Friday to Saturday. It's unclear to me if this would also apply to referendums. Would regions be forced to used the same voting calendar for regional elections? I think the South can have a special election to replace a delegate that would not start on a Friday. I think it was a principle (if not a right) to let regions administer their elections.
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I believe clarity, not ambiguity, is the best for Atlasia. If you want to believe different, then fine. Just know that you may incite another long, drawn-out TimTurner vs. Peebs, which still leaves the exact result of the Southern election that was held last month outstanding. Read the entire thread and all of the arguments. I think you will find that clarifying far outweighs not clarifying. Maybe adding one minute is not essential, but specifying the second is. Either 00:00:00 or 00:00:59 works, but 00:00 doesn't. That leaves too much open to interpretation.
I, and many other Atlasians, are for the Voting Clarification Amendment.
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Poirot's second point - that putting this in the constitution without further clarification could lead to unexpected rights created in non-federal elections - is a valid one that I think needs to be addressed by the House before the amendment is sent to the Senate. Otherwise, I'll have to offer a Senate amendment to address it. Perhaps you need to say this:
All posts made in
a federal voting booth
between 11:59:59 PM Eastern Standard Time on the Thursday before the weekend of voting to 12:00:59 AM Eastern Standard Time on the Monday immediately following that same weekend shall be considered as ballots. No citizen shall cast multiple ballots in any one election during the period the voting booth is open upon penalty of the invalidation of their vote.
But, as Poirot said, this is probably best off being left to the relevant federal election law (where is it now?). I'd worry that divorcing the all posts made in a booth from the no citizen shall cast multiple ballots language could muddy what's a valid ballot for regional purposes.
