SB 2016-035: Amendment to the Electoral Act of 2016 (debating)

[Terry the Fat Shark]

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I open up a period of debate on this bill amendment.

[Senator Cris]

I support the act.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

If there are no objections, I will open up a vote on this later today.

[Adam Griffin]

In all likelihood, I am going to have at least one - if not several - amendments to offer to this bill. There's a lot that needs to be clarified or encoded post-reset.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Objection noted, I will extend the debate period.

[Clyde1998]

Seeing as there has been no further debate, I shall open this up to a vote. Members will have 48 hours to vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

AYE

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Aye.

[Senator Cris]

Aye

[Blair]

This bill sets a rather troubling precedent in firstly forcing someone to do election tally's in 24 hours+ allowing them to designate it to someone else in the executive branch.

The last election showed that we need to be careful about how we write our laws

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

The former senator raises a good point.  I'll be changing my vote to Nay.

[Clyde1998]

Nay - purely an issue with the certification of results having to be within 24 hours of the election.

I have no issue with the other two changes; as such, if this passes, I will propose an amendment to remove the former and if this fails, I will propose an amendment for the latter changes to this act.

[Clyde1998]

This bill has failed with two members voting in favour, two opposed, none abstaining and two not voting.