Term 8 Nominations - Censor

[ice2k4]

Term 8 Nominations for Censor

The Censor is a member of the Cabinet. The Censor is charge of all elections, including posting nominations, election polls, and validating the results of elections. The Censor is also tasked with validating all other polls, and posting and validating polls of the Citizens Assembly.

Please note that you may nominate any number of citizens for this position, including yourself. A nomination must be accepted by the person who was nominated to be considered valid. You may only accept one nomination, but you may change your mind about accepting and declining a nomination as many times as you like up until the deadline. Candidates will be listed in order of their (last) acceptance in the election poll.
Nominations will close on July 27th at 7:00 PM EDT (15:00 UTC).

Should they choose to write them, the candidates' platforms will appear below.

 

[robboo]

I nominate Ice2k4

 

[Sweetacshon]

Seconded for ice.

 

[donsig]

Questions for the candidates:

As Censor, would you install procedures that automatically invalidated citizen's initiatives that were posted as private polls?

Would you include opinion polls in the Censor's procedures?

 

[donsig]

Well, we cannot be without a Censor so I will self nominate and accept.

I will also nominate DaveShack.

 

[DaveShack]

OOOH, a real election!

I'll accept here and withdraw from President. We have very different views on the area this office leads, so it should be an interesting campaign.

 

[ravensfire]

Let's start this off RIGHT!

Questions for the candidates:

1) How will you organize and conduct the affairs of the Office of the Censor?

2) Will your procedures require the use of Public polling in Opinion polls, Referendum polls and/or Initiative polls?

3) Do you believe that the Censor has the power to validate/invalidate Initiative polls?

4) What do you believe happens to invalidated polls?

5) Will your procedures clearly state all polling standards you will use?

6) Will you use the Office of Censor to delay, stall or avoid posting or validating polls that you strongly object to, but are correctly posted?

7) Why do you feel that you are the superior candidate for this office?

I'm sure there will be more, but this should be more than enough to start the debate going! The potential here is tremendous!

-- Ravensfire

 

[donsig]

1) How will you organize and conduct the affairs of the Office of the Censor?

According to the dictates of our constitution and Code of Laws.

2) Will your procedures require the use of Public polling in Opinion polls, Referendum polls and/or Initiative polls?

My procedures would have nothing what so ever to do with opinion or citizen initiative since they are not official polls and therefore do not fall under the authority of the Censor. Referendums would be required to ve public (unless they are about a specific individual) because they are official polls.

3) Do you believe that the Censor has the power to validate/invalidate Initiative polls?

No.

4) What do you believe happens to invalidated polls?

Well, they can't go to poll heaven because they aren't validated. I guess they go to poll hell if they were really bad and to poll limbo if they were bad but not on purpose.

5) Will your procedures clearly state all polling standards you will use?

They will to the best of my ability. Writing procedures, like writing laws, is difficult can not all scenarios can always be foreseen. My procedures would have a clause specifiying how anything not covered in the polling standards would be handled.

6) Will you use the Office of Censor to delay, stall or avoid posting or validating polls that you strongly object to, but are correctly posted?

Do you mean like I'm doing now in the judiciary? Why don't you just come out and ask the quesiton you want to ask. Afraid you'll hurt my feelings? The answer to your question is it depends. There are higher duties and obligations above and beyond those of the office one holds. I have no qualms whatsoever about not ruling on the current proposed housekeeping amendment. In doing so it highlights many flaws I see in our system that others (my esteemed opponent included) would rather sweep under the rug. The questions raised by these flaws are: how the game procedes in the absense of an official, do all three justices need to make a ruling if two concur, do we really want to allow single officials to be able to write legally binding standards about such large issues as public versus private polls and last and certainly not least, do we really want unimpeachable justices.

7) Why do you feel that you are the superior candidate for this office?

Because I am (and have been for a long time) an advocate of citizen's power. My main reason for serving on the bench is to protect citizen's rights. This can be seen in my campaign for lifting the current restrictions on citizen initiative polls, the citizen's main weapon in the never ending fight against poor government.

 

[ice2k4]

Nominations Closed.