SENATE BILL: The No Moderator or Accidental Invalidation Amendment (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Wait, WTF THREE DAMN VOTES!!!!!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Tom Delaying this b....


Senators have 24 hours to object.

[Dr. MB]

Aye

[Devout Centrist]

Aye

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on final Senate passage of the No Moderator or Accidental Invalidation Amendment:

Aye (5): Devout Centrist, MB, NC Yankee, Tack50 and Pyro
Nay (0):
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (1): Ontario Progressive

This resolution has passed the Senate and is sent to the VP For House action.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE RESOLUTION

To amend the Constitution to allow for limited Congressional input on vote invalidation, specifically with regards to double posting

Be it Resolved in both Houses of Congress Assembled,

Double Posting Leniency Resolution

Article I, Section IV of the Fourth Constitution is Amended as follows:

The right of citizens of the Republic of Atlasia to vote shall not be denied, except with regard to persons whose accounts is fewer than 168 hours old, as punishment for crimes of which the accused has been duly convicted, or in consequence of failing failure to meet such requirements for frequent posting, or term of residency, or the construction and revision of ballots as may be established by law; but no ballot shall be counted as valid that should list the candidates for office in a script other than the Latin alphabet, or that has been edited more than twenty minutes after its posting in the voting booth. All posts made in the voting booth shall be considered as ballots, and 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. Congress shall have power to make all needful rules governing the resolution of duplicate ballots and such other controversies as may arise, except as otherwise limited by this Constitution.

This text amends Article I, Section IV of the Fourth Constitution to allow for greater congressional authority into the regulations concerning voter invalidation, particularly with regards to the issue of posting multiple times in the voting booth. The amendment also cleans up some text issues and removes some of the explicit reasons why an amendment may be invalidated contained with the current constitutional text, likewise to facilitate said congressional authority.

People's Regional Senate
Passed 5-0 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,


1. If the above amendment is ratified, the following legislative fix shall take effect:

Section 6 of the Federal Electoral Act of 2019 shall be amended as follows:

Section 6. Voting.
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6. No voter may edit their ballot once twenty minutes have passed since its casting, nor may they delete their own ballot - either of these actions render the voter invalid for the election, and neither that ballot nor any other ballot cast by that voter in the same election shall be counted.
         a. A re-vote may be counted via a subsequent post to the first vote:
                 I.  Evidence exists that the first ballot submitted by the citizen was deleted by a Moderator or Administrator of the Atlas Forum, or
                 II. The second ballot submitted is identical to the first ballot and was submitted within five minutes of the first ballot, in which case only the first ballot shall be counted.  
         b. In all other cases, including all cases of casting a third or subsequent ballot, the casting of multiple ballots results in the invalidation of all of the user's votes in that election.
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People's Regional Senate
Passed 5-0 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,

[Sestak]

Just to be clear: the constitutional amendment has passed both houses with identical text, yes? It's only the legislative fix that the House still needs to approve?

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Just to be clear: the constitutional amendment has passed both houses with identical text, yes? It's only the legislative fix that the House still needs to approve?

No, the house needs to approve the whole thing, as it did not pass the house by the required supermajority.

[Sestak]

Just to be clear: the constitutional amendment has passed both houses with identical text, yes? It's only the legislative fix that the House still needs to approve?

No, the house needs to approve the whole thing, as it did not pass the house by the required supermajority.

Legislative fix does not need a supermajority? The amendment itself passed the House with the same text it has now.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Just to be clear: the constitutional amendment has passed both houses with identical text, yes? It's only the legislative fix that the House still needs to approve?

No, the house needs to approve the whole thing, as it did not pass the house by the required supermajority.

Legislative fix does not need a supermajority? The amendment itself passed the House with the same text it has now.

The Amendment didn't pass the House, it failed due to only being a 5-3 vote which does not count as two thirds as it's two thirds of ALL SITTING MEMBERS.

[Sestak]

Just to be clear: the constitutional amendment has passed both houses with identical text, yes? It's only the legislative fix that the House still needs to approve?

No, the house needs to approve the whole thing, as it did not pass the house by the required supermajority.

Legislative fix does not need a supermajority? The amendment itself passed the House with the same text it has now.

The Amendment didn't pass the House, it failed due to only being a 5-3 vote which does not count as two thirds as it's two thirds of ALL SITTING MEMBERS.

oh wait I didn't realize this wasn't here after House passage. My bad, have not kept as close track on Congress as I used to lol.