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RZ3 - The election timing amendment

Published in Clark #1

WHEREAS elections now occur the month after the dissolution AND

WHEREAS the dissolution was on January 4th AND

WHEREAS this section of the organic law means the election starts on Februrary 15th AND

WHEREAS there is no provision for that additional month of waiting, therefore causing an impossible contradiction in the organic law 

THEREFORE the Ziu resolves to put to referendum the follow amendment to the organic law, in Article VII

Section 3, which currently reads:

All elections to the Cosa are to be conducted during a period beginning from the fifteenth day of the calendar month following the dissolution of the prior Cosa until 7:30 p.m. on the first day of the subsequent month. The first day of this period (the fifteenth) is called the "Balloting Day" and the final day is called the "Election Deadline."

is replaced by:

All elections to the Cosa are to be conducted during a period beginning from the fifteenth day of the calendar month following the last Clark or final month of Recess of the prior Cosa until 7:30 p.m. on the first day of the subsequent month. The first day of this period (the fifteenth) is called the "Balloting Day" and the final day is called the "Election Deadline."

 

49th Cosâ, Clark #1 results		Amendment?	Ziu	Cosâ				Senäts
Bill	Title		Result	Për	Contrâ	Abstain	Result	Për	Contrâ	Abstain	Result
RZ3	The election timing amendment	Yes (2/3 Cosa needed, Majority Senäts)	Fail	105	51	39	Pass	2	3	3	Fail