Bills

This is bill id#1270 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

BE IT ENACTED by the King, Cosa and Senäts in Ziu assembled that:

1. An Organic Law Convention is established, consisting of the King and all members of the Ziu. Any of these members may choose not to participate.

2. The duty of this Convention shall be to propose, debate upon and decide upon amendments to the Draft of the 2019 Organic Law Act (hereinafter called "the Current Draft"). The text of the Current Draft shall be that authorised by the Seneschál upon this Bill becoming law.

3. The aim of this Convention shall be create a Final Draft 2019 Organic Law, in time to be Clarked before the end of the 52nd Cosa.

4. The Túischac'h shall be Chair of this convention and be responsible for enforcing rules of order, which shall be the same as for the Cosa until decided otherwise. If the Túischac'h refuses to do so or becomes unavailable, the Secretary of State will fulfil their role under this law.

5. Amendments to the Current Draft shall be "Hoppered" in the same way as bills for the Ziu.

6. On the 1st day of the last calendar month of the Convention, and on any other 1st day of the calender month during the convention as may seem appropriate, the Túischac'h shall publish a "Pseudo-Clark", containing all properly "Hoppered" amendments, for voting by Convention Members. The Túischac'h shall indicate whether one or more amendments contradict each other.

7. Any amendment which receives more "per" than "contra" votes from members of the Convention shall be adopted.

8. Following the end of voting on the last "Pseudo-Clark", the Túischac'h shall integrate the successful amendments into the Current Draft, to create the Final Draft, and deliver it to the Seneschál to be Clarked before the Ziu. The Convention shall then be dissolved.

This is bill id#1271 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

Whereas hey I just met you, and this law is crazy, and

Whereas the law requires the chancery to provide phone details in order to vote on the election, and

Whereas this law has not been put into practice in the last election, and 

Whereas in preceding elections a phone number was only provided for North America, and

Whereas voting by phone currently requires a voter to know their PSC, and

Whereas knowing your PSC implies that you have access to an email address which is known by the chancery, and

Whereas this means you are able to vote by email, and

Whereas removing the vote by phone option therefore does not remove an option for voters who would otherwise not be able to vote, and

Whereas no complaints were received about the lacking vote by phone option, and

Whereas the SoS cannot be forced to sacrifice his own privacy by posting a personal phone number on the internet, and

Whereas neither the current budget nor any other budget in recent years provided funds for the chancery to buy a separate phone for the elections, and

Whereas if we really want the vote by phone option the government should provide the funds, and

Whereas Talossa has much better things to spend its money on, and

Whereas I cannot find the option of voting through the database anywhere in the law, now

Therefore Lex.B.3. which currently reads:

"Any citizen of Talossa may download, make copies of, and distribute said ballot. Any citizen of Talossa may vote on the ballot and send it in, by mail, to the Office of the Secretary of State. In addition, the Office of the Secretary of State shall make available telephone and e-mail contact information so voters can cast their votes through those media. Votes posted on Wittenberg shall also be counted."

shall be amended to read:

"Any citizen of Talossa may download, make copies of, and distribute said ballot. Any citizen of Talossa may vote on the ballot and send it in, by mail, to the Office of the Secretary of State. In addition, the Office of the Secretary of State shall make available telephone and e-mail contact information so voters can cast their votes through those media that medium. The Office of the Secretary of State may additionally opt to provide other secure means to vote such as an electronic form on a website or a phone number. Votes posted on Wittenberg shall also be counted."

This is bill id#1272 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

Whereas when IRV was introduced live was so wonderful, a miracle, oh, it was beautiful, magical, but

Now it needs to be fixed to be more sensible, logical, oh, responsible, practical, and

Whereas in the past election multiple votes were received that listed the same candidate multiple times, and

Whereas if these additional votes for a candidate are counted among the totals for each preference level this could give these candidates and undue advantage in the case of ties, and

Whereas it is good to clear up any ambiguity about this matter, and

Whereas it furthermore would be wise to affirm what should happen in case a vote in a senatorial elections contains both valid and invalid parts (i.e. 1. valid candidate, 2. fictional character, 3. citizen of the wrong province, 4. valid candidate.), and

Whereas this bill was first drafted on the 28th of August 2018, which was Supertramp appreciation day, now

Therefore three sub-sections will be added after Lex.B.14.1. which will read:

"14.2. If a voter submits a ranked list of preferences in which a candidate is listed multiple times, only the highest preference for that candidate is valid and the lower preferences for that candidate are invalid.

14.3. A preference for someone who is not eligible for the contested senate seat because they are either not a citizen of the province represented by the contested senate seat or not eligible to vote is considered invalid.

14.4. If a voter submits a ranked list of preference which includes both valid preferences for candidates and invalid preferences, such as described by Lex.B.14.2. or Lex.B.14.3., then the invalid preferences are ignored but the vote itself will still be valid and the preference for candidates will be considered in the order of the valid preferences.",

Furthermore, the sub and sub-sub-sections directly following the new sub-section 14.4. will be re-numbered accordingly.

This is bill id#1273 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

WHEREAS Title D has many positions that nobody knows about, and

WHEREAS Title D also has many positions that people hold for several years after they stop being active because no one knows to fire them, and

WHEREAS That is a shame because some of these positions might be of interest to citizens new and old


THEREFORE a new Lex.D.1.5, which reads:

 

This is bill id#1274 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

WHEREAS Not much has been done with BHAID since it was created in the 48th Cosa, and

WHEREAS If it were streamlined significantly it might be able to work, or at least replace TalossAID (which is confusingly operated out of the Ministry of the Interior despite not being defined by law anywhere) as Talossa's premiere humanitarian aid organization


THEREFORE Lex.D.2.6.6, which currently reads:

 

is hereby amended to read: