Small loophole... Tie Votes

Veera Anlai

Veera Anlai

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I've just noticed that our Three Books have no contingency for breaking certain types of Tie Votes in the poll forums.

Tied Council Votes are broken by the President. See CoL.C.1.E
Other tie votes are broken by the Deparmental Leader that the poll falls under. See CoL.C.2.D.2 (i.e. Military breaks ties that have to do with Military, etcetera.)
But what about votes that do not fall under either of these, such as PI votes?

It would be my suggestion that we add a law stating that votes such as these are either repolled or are tie-broken by the Judiciary head (Chief Justice)

Discussion? Do you think we need to add a law about this? If so, what should it say, what should it do, and how should it be worded?
 
I beleve that there should be a law saying that the head member of the Judiciary should break a PI poll.
 
I agree with that. I think we should have the top member of the Judiciary COC. break a PI or trial poll.
1. Chief Justice
2. Public Defender
3. Judge Advocate
 
As the Judiciary is a functional triumvirate this could be done very elegantly. Should a PI result in a tie, the Judiciary should reach a concensus between the tied results. Lacking concensus, the Chief Justice would arbitrarily decide.
 
I like it too. That's a well placed responsibility. If the PI polls come to a tie at any level, then the Judiciary should vote to break the tie.
 
No, I think we would need a proposed poll, first. Plus we would need to extend this discussion a bit to make it a valid discussion period.
 
This would be a council vote, as a change to the CoS is required.

Perhaps...

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Shall the following changes be made to Section H of the Code of Standards (involving Public Investigation Polls)?

H. 7. C: In the event the trial poll ends in a tie, the members of the Judiciary shall decided amongst themselves if the defendant is innocent or guilty.

H. 8. F: In the event any type of sentencing poll ends up in a tie, the members of the Judiciary shall decide amongst themselves the approiate sentence.

Please note that these sub-sections do not currently exist.

All council members please vote YES, NO, or ABSTAIN.
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Assuming everybody likes this, we need a council member to sponser it.
 
One slight change Octavian...

H. 8. F: In the event any type of sentencing poll ends up in a tie,
the members of the Judiciary shall decide an appropriate sentence from among the options that were tied.

Otherwise, they could choose an option that the Citizens don't even remotely agree with.
 
Good point, VA.
 
An excellent observation. I'll make that change...

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Shall the following changes be made to Section H of the Code of Standards (involving Public Investigation Polls)?

H. 7. C: In the event the trial poll ends in a tie, the members of the Judiciary shall decided amongst themselves if the defendant is innocent or guilty.

H. 8. F: In the event any type of sentencing poll ends up in a tie, the members of the Judiciary shall decide an appropriate sentence from among the options that were tied.

Please note that these sub-sections do not currently exist.

All council members please vote YES, NO, or ABSTAIN.
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Now, are there any council members in the house?
 
If my vote actually mattered on an issue such as that, I'd give it a thumbs up. However it doesn't as I am a lowly citizen. But seriously, that looks like a good proposal.
 
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