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RZ20 - THE EM200 COSÂ ELEMENT AMENDMENT

Published in Clark #3

The Ziu hereby takes all necessary action to pass the following legislation and include it in a nationwide
referendum for final passage at the earliest opportunity.
1) Article VII, Sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Organic Law are hereby repealed.
2) The following text is added to replace the text repealed above:
Art. VII: Sec. 1.
a) The Cosâ is composed of 200 seats, apportioned among political parties based on their performance in the
General Election.
b) Each province of Talossa shall elect a certain number of seats to the Cosâ, proportional to its percentage of the
total Talossan population (including all known Dandelions and any other non-voting citizens) at the time of the
election, so that the total number of seats elected from all provinces equals 200. Before the General Election, the
Secretary of State shall certify any change in provincial seat totals since the last election. This number of seats
need not be rounded for the attribution of seats within the province.
c) Each province's seats shall be apportioned among the parties in proportion to the popular vote cast for parties
by voters in that province in the General Election (abstentions, spoilt ballots, non-votes and votes for parties
which did not register being omitted from this count so that all who actually vote for parties comprise 100% of
the total "popular vote" for this purpose).
Art. VII: Sec. 2.
a) Based on the final vote tally in each province, the Secretary of State calculates the apportionment of seats
among the parties. Each party receives a percentage of the seats as equal to its percentage of the popular vote
within the province as is mathematically possible. This number of seats need not be rounded for the attribution of
seats within the province.
b) Each party shall receive a whole number of seats in the final tally. In the event of a single seat being divided
among two or more parties mathematically, the party with the highest number of total votes will be used, and in
case of a tie, percentile dice will be used to determine a single owner for the divided seat, with chances
proportional to the percentage of the vote received.
c) The Secretary of State shall employ whatever mathematical formulae and calculations in the apportionment of
seats, as will best reflect the intentions of this Act. The Uppermost Cort shall be the final judge in case of
mathematical disputes.
Art. VII: Sec. 3. Seats won by each party shall be divided by that party among its own members and supporters as
it sees fit, with the proviso that each Member of the Cosâ may hold no more than thirty seats.

31th Cosâ, Clark #3 results		Amendment?	Ziu	Cosâ				Senäts
Bill	Title		Result	Për	Contrâ	Abstain	Result	Për	Contrâ	Abstain	Result
RZ20	THE EM200 COSÂ ELEMENT AMENDMENT	No (double majority needed)	Fail	6	2	0	Pass	1	1	1	Fail