ravensfire
Member of the Opposition
Citizen's Initiative - The Election Act of 4000 BC
Conducting the affairs of Government in our system requires periodic elections. These elections allow citizen to chose their leaders based on their personalities, views and stated goals.
Terms of office will run from the first of the month to the last day. If the first term starts in the middle of a month, that term will not end until the last day of the subsequent month. No citizen can be elected to the same office in more than two consecutive terms.
Elections will be conducted by the official in charge of Election (called the EO). The EO will create nomination threads for each elected office, plus the Designated Player poll, 7 days prior to the end of the current term. After 3 days, the EO will post voting polls, one for each contested office, listing each candidate that has accepted their nomination in order of acceptance. These polls will be marked private, single-choice, and will be set to expire in 3 days.
Citizens can only accept one nomination for an elected office. If they accept more than one, the EO will try to determine which one is their preference. If the EO cannot, they will assume the most recent acceptance takes precendence. The Designated Player pool is not considered an elected office.
The citizen recieving the most votes at the conclusion of the election poll is deemed the winner of that election. In the event that more than one citizen is tied for the most votes, a runoff election poll, listing all citizen's tied for the most votes, will be conducted. This poll will be marked private, single-choice, and will be set to expire in 2 days. This process will be repeated until one citizen recieves the most votes.
A citizen can withdraw from an election at any time. This is an irreversible choice. When they do so, their name, and number of votes, is ignored for determining the winner of the election and for any runoffs.
The Designated Player poll will list all citizens that accepted their nomination. This poll will be marked private, multiple choice and will be set to expire in three days. All citizens receiving the required support will be considered to be the Designated Player pool for that term.
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NOTES
Information used in the creation of this Initiative taken from this poll. All results of that poll have been honored here. In addition, information from previous DG's and personal experience were used.
As usual, my goal is to be clear about the process, and reduce ambiguities where possible. You'll note that I reference an "Election Official" here. The poll above indicated that we wanted an elected person to conduct elections. This should not be interpreted as creating an office - rather, creating a duty. This duty can be assigned to any elected official, and thus reassigned as needed. I suggest that future initiative that create a duty (something for someone to do) do likewise. This makes it easier to reassign tasks. The required support for a DP is referenced in the DP initiative, not here.
For the first term, we can either elect the EO or appoint someone to run the election via initiative. I would suggest the latter, just to speed things up.
-- Ravensfire
Conducting the affairs of Government in our system requires periodic elections. These elections allow citizen to chose their leaders based on their personalities, views and stated goals.
Terms of office will run from the first of the month to the last day. If the first term starts in the middle of a month, that term will not end until the last day of the subsequent month. No citizen can be elected to the same office in more than two consecutive terms.
Elections will be conducted by the official in charge of Election (called the EO). The EO will create nomination threads for each elected office, plus the Designated Player poll, 7 days prior to the end of the current term. After 3 days, the EO will post voting polls, one for each contested office, listing each candidate that has accepted their nomination in order of acceptance. These polls will be marked private, single-choice, and will be set to expire in 3 days.
Citizens can only accept one nomination for an elected office. If they accept more than one, the EO will try to determine which one is their preference. If the EO cannot, they will assume the most recent acceptance takes precendence. The Designated Player pool is not considered an elected office.
The citizen recieving the most votes at the conclusion of the election poll is deemed the winner of that election. In the event that more than one citizen is tied for the most votes, a runoff election poll, listing all citizen's tied for the most votes, will be conducted. This poll will be marked private, single-choice, and will be set to expire in 2 days. This process will be repeated until one citizen recieves the most votes.
A citizen can withdraw from an election at any time. This is an irreversible choice. When they do so, their name, and number of votes, is ignored for determining the winner of the election and for any runoffs.
The Designated Player poll will list all citizens that accepted their nomination. This poll will be marked private, multiple choice and will be set to expire in three days. All citizens receiving the required support will be considered to be the Designated Player pool for that term.
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NOTES
Information used in the creation of this Initiative taken from this poll. All results of that poll have been honored here. In addition, information from previous DG's and personal experience were used.
As usual, my goal is to be clear about the process, and reduce ambiguities where possible. You'll note that I reference an "Election Official" here. The poll above indicated that we wanted an elected person to conduct elections. This should not be interpreted as creating an office - rather, creating a duty. This duty can be assigned to any elected official, and thus reassigned as needed. I suggest that future initiative that create a duty (something for someone to do) do likewise. This makes it easier to reassign tasks. The required support for a DP is referenced in the DP initiative, not here.
For the first term, we can either elect the EO or appoint someone to run the election via initiative. I would suggest the latter, just to speed things up.
-- Ravensfire
