Mr. Furxheir, R.M.W.
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(1791 posts total)
(last post: November 24, 2007 - 15:07)
Citizen #20:
Martí- Paìr Furxhéir | > > Read the whole paragraph :
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> > The office of the President of the Republic shall become vacant on the first day of July every year. The election for a new President shall take place no earlier than a month before the office is due to fall vacant.
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> > As such, the election DOES occur on June 1st
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> Why would it take place in JUNE?! I believe we agreed that it would be best for the election to occur in MAY so that we'd have the term be 1 June to 1 June every year, in honour of Independence Day.
I know, but the idea is to have an election every 3 months, on months that are multiples of 3 ( 3,6,9,12 ) or March, June, September, December. Doing that enables to have elections equally balanced around the year, and easy to remember. 3,6,9,12
With your proposal, we would have 3,5,9,12, which would mean only 2 months from the previous house election, and a full 4 months until the next one. I think this is less desirable. We should space them as equally as possible to create a rhytmic pattern.
We could of course, use 2,5,8,11 ( February, May, August, November ), but I think it is less interesting, notably because of the elections in August, where a lot of people are in vacation, and in February, the shortest month of the year. And with Thanksgiving, November ain't that great either.
With elections every 3 months, like we have now, we also are in election at the time of a season change ! It easy to remember : if we change season this month, there is an election. September is also the beginning of the school year, which is synonimous with a new beginning. Same thing with December, and the new year ( the term of Senators would be from January 1st to December 31st ! ).
The only negative point of the schedule is the Presidential election, which occurs during Independance month, but with the new president taking office the next month. Personally tough, I would fix the term to change on June 15th, with the election between June 1st and June 14th, and not on July 1st.
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