FINAL RATIFICATION VOTE PART 2 - AMENDMENTS

[Demrepdan]

No vote yet, but Amdt IV has an unusually constructed sentence: "No district shall have more than two more register voters than another district." This could be reworded, "No district's registered voter population shall exceed another's by more than two voters."

I'll change this as soon as possible....thank you for pointing this out....I still have to go through some other posts and threads to see what must be changed....(I remember Lewis making some good suggestions...that I will comply with)

[Demrepdan]

Yes on all Amendments...

NO on preferential voting...

I don't care how the regions and districts are distributed...as long as there are always 10 states per region.....and an equal amount of voters per district.

[minionofmidas]

Okay something I don't understand is you can't swap Nebraska and Missouri in the district plan because their in the same one from what I can see

Oops. Regions, of course.

[Beet]

Yes on all amendments.

Preference ABCD.

YES on preferential voting. This is the ONLY way to prevent penalizing third parties, which make the Atlas elections more interesting IMO.

[??????????]

Yes to all!

[12th Doctor]

Yes on all amendments.

Preference ABCD.

YES on preferential voting. This is the ONLY way to prevent penalizing third parties, which make the Atlas elections more interesting IMO.

No, this is a certain way to assure a Dem./Progressive majoritarian alliance.

[Beet]

No, because if any party including Republicans get over half the first choice votes they will win no matter what. Just like we had in the first election. Now you still have a guranteed win with over 50% of the vote. So it doesn't make any party worse off than it was in the first election, which everyone thought fair. The only difference is that now we have more than two parties, and we do NOT want a president to be elected with only 35% support.

I don't want a party to form a government with only something like 35% of the votes, especially if the other 65% had that party as their last choice.

[Platypus]

yes
yes
yes
yes
BCAD

yes on the 6th amendment-Preferential voting.

[Huckleberry Finn]

Yes on the first amendment.
No on the second amendment. (They should be more than 18 posts for right to vote)
Yes on the third amendment
CBAD on fourth amendment
Yes on the fifth amendment
No on preferential voting

[Gustaf]

Yes on 1st, 2nd, 5th.

No to 3rd.

Will have to think about 4th, not sure I get all the alternatives there.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

Yes on 1st, 2nd, 5th.

No to 3rd.

Will have to think about 4th, not sure I get all the alternatives there.

Gustaf,

You didn't vote on the Preferential Voting amendment....which is interesting considering you started the original PV thread.

[Gustaf]

Yes on 1st, 2nd, 5th.

No to 3rd.

Will have to think about 4th, not sure I get all the alternatives there.

Gustaf,

You didn't vote on the Preferential Voting amendment....which is interesting considering you started the original PV thread.

Ah, yes. I'll vote in favour of it then.

[MAS117]

i dont want pv

[Emsworth]

Amdts. I, II, III: Yes
Amdt V: No
Amdt IV: CBAD
Preferential Voting: No

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

On the Preferential Voting amendment, I count:

9 Yeas
8 Nays
1 Abstention
3 Who voted on other amendments but didn't mention this...maybe the are deliberate abstentions, maybe just an oversight (ShapeShifter, Reaganfan, Emsworth)

Looks like it will go down to the wire!

[Emsworth]

3 Who voted on other amendments but didn't mention this...maybe the are deliberate abstentions, maybe just an oversight (ShapeShifter, Reaganfan, Emsworth)

Just an oversight from me.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

3 Who voted on other amendments but didn't mention this...maybe the are deliberate abstentions, maybe just an oversight (ShapeShifter, Reaganfan, Emsworth)

Just an oversight from me.

In that case, what is your vote?

[Emsworth]

3 Who voted on other amendments but didn't mention this...maybe the are deliberate abstentions, maybe just an oversight (ShapeShifter, Reaganfan, Emsworth)

Just an oversight from me.

In that case, what is your vote?

I modified my post above to indicate a vote of No.

[MAS117]

im chanigng my vote, i dont want pv it was a mistake

[MAS117]

now its
10 No
8 Yes
1 Absentation

on the P Voting

[minionofmidas]

im chanigng my vote, i dont want pv it was a mistake

We had that issue before...You should not be able to change a vote cast. I'll admit we didn't really have a constructive debate on it...At the very least, I demand that to change your vote, you edit your original post and clearly mark it as edited and what the changes are, rather than putting a post somewhere in teh middle. Makes it easier to count ballots...

[MAS117]

i did both lewis, i changed the first post

[Platypus]

What are you againsts PV?

It is more democratic, and fairer to third parties. It just makes sense!

This is the ATLAS forum on the WORLD WIDE web-it doesnt have to be a replica of the US system-if there is a better system in other countries, use it-shouldn't we try to get the best possible system, rather then a useable but less democratic one?

[minionofmidas]

You still have seven hours to vote, so I'm just moving this back to page one...

[minionofmidas]

There are seven abstentions on what regions plan to use out of 22 ballots cast: by Dunn, Reaganfan, supersoulty, Demrepdan, StatesRights, Gustaf and MAS.
There are nine first preference votes for Plan C, 5 for Plan A and one for Plan B (none for "Plan" D, btw, though it got two second preferences).

The first, second and third amendments are sailing through, 20-0-2 abstentions for the first, 19-1-2 for the other two.
The fifth amendment appears also to be passing unless there's a big surge in turnout in the next few hours: 14-5-3.
The Preferential voting amendment is going down to the wire, with 10 no, 8 yes, 3 abstentions.