D. N. Vercáriâ
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(last post: March 15, 2008 - 16:51)
Citizen #26:
Dieter N Vercáriâ | > > Do you mean to do this sequentially? Given that a voting period lasts 14 days, and given the referendum to endorse the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution would start *now*, and the nomination phase of the election would not begin before the referendum is over, the election wouldn't be over before March 13.
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> 1) We *could* start the nomination phase while the first referendum was still going.
> 2) Not electing a new legislature until after the dissolution of the old one is standard practice in most countries.
This is a good moment to say that I'm a Peculiarist - I don't care for what "most countries" are doing. We are the Republic of Talossa, a sovereign nationette and we're doing it our way, following the provisions of our Constitution and our laws. :-)
Anyway. In the Republic of Talossa it would be perfectly legal to have the incoming CoD elected before the dissolution of the sitting CoD. It would make sense to be able to summon the new CoD soon after the dissolution of the old CoD, since the term of the Deputies is really short, and summoning the new CoD a long time after the dissolution of the old CoD, while perfectly legal, would shorten the already short term of the Deputies. Looking at the precedence of all CoD elections that we had, we seemed to be leaning towards avoiding a long gap between the dissolution and summoning of the CoD.
Btw., Germany is electing a new Bundestag *before* the sitting Bundestag is dissolved. Don't quote me on the details, but the old Bundestag usually persists until a month after the announcement of the election results for the new Bundestag.
> 3) I think formalising new citizens quickly so they can vote in the Chamber election would be a good thing.
It would be a good thing indeed. I hope the government is doing all they can to "recruit" new citizens. On the other hand, if it takes its time to get this ball rolling (as goes the saying), those who are citizens now shouldn't eventually feel rushed to vote in new citizens, just because elections are nigh. Same goes for prospectives, they should not feel rushed to "take the plunge" just because elections are nigh.
But especially, elections shouldn't be delayed just because otherwise prospectives couldn't be voted in in time. I guess that prospectives who deliberately chose to join the Republic of Talossa will understand, or even more so, hope that the laws of the Republic aren't going to be "stretched" to make them fit on special occasions. ;-)
I'm not saying that this "stretching" of laws is happening right now; I'm just asking or maybe actually begging all who are involved to not let this happen. Consider my words food for thought.
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