Populares Convention

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

X Libertas



As I've said, I don't think we need to mess with our bylaws, however. The mechanism for endorsing candidates at our convention is already in place. No need to fix what's not broken.

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I still think we should just forget about this convention and wait 'til next month. The bylaws specify a convention once every two months, we had one in June already.

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Okay, here's a proposal - it's the Chairman's discretion what he'll do with this.

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Also, for prohibiting candidates from being on the ballot line...

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Seems to work, but will this be based on a separate vote on whether we choose to endorse non-POP candidates, or just our regular endorsement votes? Will we allow party members to nominate non-POP candidates and then vote on whether they will receive our endorsement? We should make that clear.

Also, I think all party officers should be able to contact the SoFE with regard to ballot access. There are deadlines and tense negotiations always can run late. In the past we've had chairmen who were inactive in Atlasia and the whip's office has certainly been intricately involved in the party's interpartisan negotations since the party's founding, even going back to the ARC era. Party officers include the chairman, vice chairman and whip. It could potentially cripple our diplomacy efforts otherwise.

Perhaps we might also allow the conventions themselves to elect for a time someone who would be the official representative of the convention to report on endorsements and ballot access to the SoFE.

Here are my tentatively proposed amendments:

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Though we'd still need to address the first issue I mentioned.


Also, since we now control our ballot line, should we do like other parties do and automatically endorse our own party's candidates ahead of others before the convention votes?

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Alright, here's some amendments that would address the other issues. What do you think?

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I think we should allow a little bit of wiggle room in case, as a big tent party, one wing of the party nominates a candidate and the other wing wants to kick him off the ballot. Raising the threshold to 2/3 to lose ballot access reduces the risk of having the party torn apart over something like that.

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Are you "Populares" or "Popularis"?

This is the Populares convention. What do you want?

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Are you "Populares" or "Popularis"?

This is the Populares convention. What do you want?

I was asking politely which form is then official or  both are acceatable, rude little man.

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Try to ask something politely...

How was I rude? I'm not quite sure what the issue is here. 'Popularis' is singular, 'Populares' is plural. Just like 'Democrat' is singular and 'Democrats' is plural.

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Fusion Voting [Aye]
Not Our Candidate [Aye]

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I guess I'll give the Whipdom (Whipship? Whipency?) another go.

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Chairman

• Jbrase

[] Write In: _____________

Vice-Chairman

• hantheguitarman

[] Write In: _____________

Whip

• Libertas

[] feeblepizza
[] Write In: _____________

Secretary

• NiK (Psychic Octopus)

[] Write In: _____________

Chief Director

• SvenssonRS

[] Write In: _____________

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Emerald is a nice color that fits this party. We voted on it when the party was in its infancy. Let the JCP change their own color if it's such a problem.

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Ameriplan is not even in this party...

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I guess I represent the non-libertarian wing (is there one?)

There most certainly is.

Anywho, upon latter reflection, I won't be supporting a color change unless it has border-line unamimous support/desire in the party.

The problem is that changing colors would essentially be surrendering to terrorism.

In case it isn't common knowledge here, our party color on the Wiki has been vandalized repeatedly by a member of the JCP, who suddenly decided it was his prerogative to change our color without asking. The edit wars continue to rage on.

We've also been threatened with legal action by JCP leaders if we didn't agree to change our color.

So why exactly are we giving in to them and even considering changing colors unilaterally?


I really don't know why we are wasting time debating established party colors and logos when we have important election campaigns coming up, and lots of recruitment and other work to be done.

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Official Ballot of the Populares Convention

[5] Bacon King
[2] AndrewCT
[1] Libertas
[7] badger
[3] AHDuke99
[4] A-Bob
[6] Kalwejt