Banishment Procedure Bill

[Q]

Forum Affairs Legislation: Banishment Procedure Bill
Sponsor: Sen. MasterJedi

1. Any registered voter who is permanently banned from the Atlas Forum by Dave Leip shall be considered to be a deregistered voter, as defined in Section 2, Clause 2 under the Deregistration Act.
2. Public confirmation from Dave Leip stating that a person is permanently banned is considered sufficient information to invoke Clause 1 of this act.

[minionofmidas]

If said person is banned anyways, what's the point? After four months, they'll be off automatically.

[MasterJedi]

If said person is banned anyways, what's the point? After four months, they'll be off automatically.

It speeds up the process. And that there's only one more piece of legislation after this.

[Gabu]

On one hand, I can't see a compelling reason to bother with this.

On the other hand, I can't see how it could hurt, really.

Since it's on the floor anyway, I'll probably be voting for it, however trivial it is.

[Democratic Hawk]

While it makes perfect sense, it does have a rather medieval ring to it

'Hawk'

[Gabu]

On one hand, I can't see a compelling reason to bother with this.

On the other hand, I can't see how it could hurt, really.

Since it's on the floor anyway, I'll probably be voting for it, however trivial it is.

At one point, a vote was taken over the phone (which later turned out to be fraud).

Absentee ballots have been accepted over AIM before, I believe.

There are other ways to vote.  Besides, someone could bypass their ban and - under currnet rules - the vote would count.

Why on earth would a vote like that be accepted?

Anyway, okay, I guess that gives us another reason to do this.

[Yates]

I see no reason to vote against this.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Current Federal law requires absentee ballots to be cast in a thread, so such people wouldn't be able to vote in Federal elections.  The Regions may have other provisions tho, and if someone were to be banished between a Presidential election and the census date, it could affect the census tally.

[Keystone Phil]

I see no reason to vote against this.

[MasterJedi]

I hereby open up the final vote on this bill. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

1. Any registered voter who is permanently banned from the Atlas Forum by Dave Leip shall be considered to be a deregistered voter, as defined in Section 2, Clause 2 under the Deregistration Act.
2. Public confirmation from Dave Leip stating that a person is permanently banned is considered sufficient information to invoke Clause 1 of this act.

[MasterJedi]

Aye

[WMS]

Aye.

[Gabu]

Aye.

[ilikeverin]

Yup

[Hatman 🍁]

yea

[Democratic Hawk]

Aye

'Hawk'

[Bacon King]

Aye.

[MasterJedi]

This bill has enough votes to pass. Senators now have 24 hours to change their votes.

[MasterJedi]

With 7 Ayes, 0 Nays and 0 Abstentions this bill has passed. I hereby present it to the President for his signiture.

[Ebowed]

Ebowed