DG4 Discussion - Election Process

[ravensfire]

Addendum to proposal for At-Large Governors:

CoS section

III.
  D.
    2.  At-Large Governors
      i.  There shall be only one poll for all At-Large Governor positions.
      ii.  The top X candidates, where X is the number of At-Large Governor positions
           for this election cycle, shall be the At-Large Governors
      iii.  Should a tie exist between two or more citizens for the final At-Large 
            Governor position, a run-off poll listing only those citizens shall be 
            posted.  This poll shall last for 2 days.

There - At-Large Governors are now covered.

-- Ravensfire

 

[Cyc]

III.F and III.G should be removed! If the top Judicial people go for the CJ position and lose, there is no way for them to become an Associate Justice.

You need to replace those with a blurb about "there will only be one poll for the Justices and the top three vote getters will be the Justices. The top vote getter will be the CJ.

The way you have it now will waste too many valuable people! Change this, please.

This Justice Poll should not be multiple choice either. The citizens should choose the CJ and the 2nd and 3rd place candidates should be Associate Justices.

 

[ravensfire]

Originally posted by Cyc
III.F and III.G should be removed! If the top Judicial people go for the CJ position and lose, there is no way for them to become an Associate Justice.

You need to replace those with a blurb about "there will only be one poll for the Justices and the top three vote getters will be the Justices. The top vote getter will be the CJ.

The way you have it now will waste too many valuable people! Change this, please.

This Justice Poll should not be multiple choice either. The citizens should choose the CJ and the 2nd and 3rd place candidates should be Associate Justices.

Umm, the last full proposal I put has one and only one poll for the Judiciary. The top vote getter in the CJ, the next two are the AJ's.

I think you are looking at III.F. and III.G. of the CoL section. This is a list of all elected offices, not a list of how the polls should look. That's in the CoS.

What you are looking for is in there ...

-- Ravensfire

 

[Cyc]

You are right on this Ravensfire. I now see the "1 poll for the Judiciary" part. I probably saw it before. I've gone through every piece of legislation 2 or 3 times at least. I guess I was cross referencing too much.

 

[ravensfire]

Originally posted by Cyc
You are right on this Ravensfire. I now see the "1 poll for the Judiciary" part. I probably saw it before. I've gone through every piece of legislation 2 or 3 times at least. I guess I was cross referencing too much.

I have NO IDEA what you are talking about!



-- Ravensfire

 

[Cyc]

You're working way too hard, Ravensfire. 3 posts ago you told me your last proposal had "one and only one" poll for the Judiciary. I was responding to this, combined with your comment about me possibly looking at the CoL. Either that or you've already hit the egg-nog.

Try not putting up 10 pieces of legislature at once next time.

 

[ravensfire]

Code of Laws proposal:

Elections (CoL section)

I.  Elections shall be supervised by the Election Office under guidance 
    from the Judiciary.
  A.  At the conclusion of an election cycle, the Election Office shall:
    1.  Determine and post the results of the election in a thread in the 
        main forum.
    2.  Determine and post the dates of the next election cycle in the  
        first post of the Election Office.
  
II.  For the purposes of this clause, all times shall be expressed in GMT.

III.  The following offices shall have one calendar month terms, beginning 
      on the first day of that month
  A.  President
  B.  Minister of Internal Affairs
  C.  Minister of Defense
  D.  Minister of Foreign Affairs
  E.  Minister of Trade and Technology
  F.  Chief Justice
  G.  2 Associate Justice
  H.  1 Provincial Governor per Province
  I.  At-Large Govenors, if needed
  
IV.  Elections shall be conducted according to the following scheduled:
  A.  Nominations shall start 7 days before the end of the month and run 
      until the election polls are posted.
  B.  Debates shall start 7 days before the end of the month and run until 
      the election polls close.
  C.  Election polls shall start 4 days before the end of the month and run 
      for 3 days.
  
V.  The citizen gathering the most votes in an election is deemed the winner 
    of that election.
  A.  Should more than one citizen tie with the highest totals, a run-off 
      election lasting 2 days shall be immediately posted listing only the tied citizens.

-- Ravensfire

 

[ravensfire]

Code of Standards proposal:

Elections (CoS section)

I.  Nominations
  A.  The Election Office shall create one Nomination thread for each possible 
      Election poll.  These threads shall be in the Citizen sub-forum.
  B.  Any citizen may nominate any other citizen, including themself, for any 
      office.
  C.  To be listed in the Election poll, a Citizen must post that they have 
      accepted a nomination.
    1.  A self-nomination is considered to be automatically accepted.
  D.  A citizen is limited to accepting no more than 3 nominations in any 
      election cycle.
    1.  Each accepted nomination must be in a different branch of Government.
    2.  The Election Office is responsible for contacting citizens that have
        exceeded the limit.
    3.  Should the citizen not reduce their acceptances to the limit, the
        Election Office shall interpret the earier acceptances as having
        priority over the later in creating the election ballots.
  E.  The Election Office shall create a Nomination Tracking thread in the  
      Citizen sub-forum summarizing all nominations and their status.
    
II.  Debates
  A.  Debates shall be held within the Nomination thread.
  B.  Any citizen may post a question or statement in this thread.
  C.  No candidate shall be forced to respond to a question.
  D.  The Election Office shall maintain a list of the asked questions
      and periodically repost them.
  
III.  Polling
  A.  Polling threads shall be created by the Election Office in the main forum.
  B.  Only accepted nominations shall be listed in the Election poll.
  C.  The poll shall list the the nominees and abstain.
  D.  Each office shall have its own poll.
    1.  Judiciary exceptions:
      i.  There shall be only 1 poll for the Judiciary branch.
      ii.  The nominee with the most votes shall be the Chief Justice.
      iii.  The nominees with the 2nd and 3rd most votes shall be the Associate 
            Justices.
      iv.  Should a tie exist for 1st, the nominees tied for that 
            position shall be listed in a poll to determine who shall be
            the Chief Justice.
      v.  Should a tie exist for 3rd, only those nominees 
            tied for that position shall be listed in the run-off.
    2.  At-Large Governors
      i.  There shall be only one poll for all At-Large Governor positions.
      ii.  The top X candidates, where X is the number of At-Large Governor 
           positions for the election cycle, shall be the At-Large Governors
      iii.  Should a tie exist between two or more citizens for the final 
            At-Large Governor position, a run-off poll listing only those
            citizens shall be posted.  This poll shall last for 2 days.

-- Ravensfire

 

[Cyc]

CoS and CoL Sections pertaining to Elections look good to me.

 

[zorven]

Ravensfire, I think this proposal looks good.

 

[ravensfire]

Ratification polls have been posted:
Code of Laws section
Code of Standards section

-- Ravensfire

 

[Octavian X]

Then, my idea comes too late. I was going to suggest that the winners of elections post their acknowledgement of their victories within x number of days after the end of the election. Failure to do so would result in automatic removal from office.

This would ensure that each term starts off with those active people in office.

 

[Cyc]

Oct, that could be added to the CoS at anytime.