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Elegarth

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  1. With no further comments, and considering there seems not to be wide support for a special voting method, I'll stick to the plurality vote. Hence without changes I'll like to move this to formal discussion, I'll require supporterst to do so.
  2. Considyourselvesf accepted. I'll add you to the roster tomorrow
  3. I will be making a counter proposal this coming Monday, with some aspects if this and some others of my own
  4. As it has been discussed in several threads and a fail proposal, we currently lack a set of strict guidelines on how should elected positions be handled by the HGA. The only actual guidelines that exists for such a thing, is the one relevant to the speaker of the HGA: It is my opinion, since this system is simple enough, and has worked thus far, that we could simply extend or implement this in a manner that would allow it to be a general election guidelines. Since it is easier to start a discussion with a draft, here is what I present to you (without much specific care for legislative writing yet, since this is meant to be a first draft): This is not a definitive draft, and all of it is open to discussion. Here is my reasoning for must of it: 1) Our community is one that does not usually feels comfortable with over-complex processes, and hence a streamlined simple method of holding elections should allow for an easier involvement of all members of the HGA. 2) There is no need to complicate the voting system in a community with the size of our at this point. 3) The General Election act should be general enough to allow to be refered by other acts that require to establish an election process, without needing to make ammends to it everytime a new position is created. I'll welcome your comments
  5. My first suggestion, and you may call it an official request, is that you start handling both discussions as separate discussions. I think mixing them up just contributes to complicate the argumentation and whatnot. Based on this, I'm gonna consider this is INFORMAL DISCUSSION about the creation of a cabinet, and I will myself open an INFORMAL DISCUSION for a General Elections act.
  6. We need both a streamlined Ministery proposal, and a SINGLE STRAIGHFORWARD voting system, basically. I'll be taking a shot at drafting something out.
  7. I hope I never get to know it, hahahaha
  8. For order and record keeping, could I get an Archive forum under the HGA forum: http://www.westpacific.org/forums/index.php?/forum/25-the-holy-grand-assembly-of-the-west/ Ideally, it would have the same permissions as the parent forum and would be used as a placekeeper of all closed topics, which would allow to clean out the main HGA forum a little and make it more user friendly. Unless you guys think we rather not do that!
  9. As per this declaration: http://www.westpacific.org/forums/index.php?/topic/1236-standard-procedures-of-the-regional-assembly-speaker-declaration/ This proposal is considered to be right now in the period of informal discussion.
  10. As per this declaration: http://www.westpacific.org/forums/index.php?/topic/1236-standard-procedures-of-the-regional-assembly-speaker-declaration/ This proposal is considered to be right now in the period of informal discussion.
  11. As per this declaration: http://www.westpacific.org/forums/index.php?/topic/1236-standard-procedures-of-the-regional-assembly-speaker-declaration/ This proposal is considered to be right now in the period of informal discussion.
  12. This are the precepts upon which I will continue operating the proposals of the Assembly during the rest of my period as speaker. 1) PROPOSAL STATUS Every proposal should have two different discussion periods: formal and informal discussion. Informal discussion would only require for a member of the regional assembly to open a thread and make a proposal without any need for formalities, he may just list a need that he sees or fixes that he considers required, and may argue or discuss with everyone about it, no limits, no hard rules. Informal discussion on a proposal should have no time limitation, and should allow for any idea to be polished into act format. At any point, without speaker intervention, the proposal may be dropped or reset or started over. Formal discussion, however, would require an actual ACT proposal within the existing legislation of the region. For a proposal to be moved from informal to formal discussion, I would require the proposer to request so, and he will need the support of 2 other members of the HGA. As soon as an act reaches formal discussion, it should not suffer major changes in its writing. It will remain in the floor for 5 days before being automatically moved to vote, within 48 hours after the discussion has ended. If the motion to formal discussion is supported by a total of 4 members (including the requester), formal discussion will be shortened to 4 days. If the motion to formal discussion is supported by 6 or more members (including the requester), formal discussion will shortened to 3 days, which is the minimum amount of formal discussion. If a proposal threads remains inactive for over 1 calender month, the proposal will be automatically consider withdrawn and the thread closed. At any moment, as well, as requester can withdraw its proposal and ask the Speaker to close the thread accordingly. 2) VOTING Once that formal discussion is completed, the Speaker of the HGA will schedule a vote within 48 hours. Voting will remain open for exactly 5 days, and the thread will be set to auto-lock itself once the time is over, after which the Speaker will have 24 hours to vote and give the result. No more than 2 votes will be held at the same time, and should a third proposal reach voting quorum, its vote will be scheduled for as soon as possible, once at least one other vote has ended. All HGA members are allowed to vote as long as they were already a part of it AT THE MOMENT OF THE VOTE BEING OPEN, to prevent people from manipulating the vote by bringing over other players to support him. Voting will be done by a simple "Aye", "Nay" or "Abstain" post in the voting thread. Discussion or further comments are discouraged, unless they are related strictly to the voting process. 3) CHANGES / REPEALS Any and all changes and repeals of a previously voted act should work exactly like a proposal would: an informal discussion -> A formal discussion -> A motion to vote. One act may change another, if it avoids confusion, supersedes the original act or requires it for the laws to be consistent. An article should be included in any such act to explicitly reflect the changes that will be performed upon the existing act by the new one. 4) VALIDITY This procedures will be consider valid as of WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18th, 2015. They will be applied for any and all existing proposals as of this moment in the HGA (with all of them being considered in the period of INFORMAL DISCUSSION at this time) and any proposal to be submitted after this date. Signed, Elegarth from The Western Elegarthian Land of Tuki Speaker of the HGA
  13. Elegarth

    Happy Day

    Can someone explain what SAT are and what is the grading scale?
  14. Is that a waffle ninjaed into a pizza box!?
  15. For some reasons, that image is blocked at my ISP level
  16. Coinsder yourselves accepted. I'll add you to the roster on Monday. Read "consider"
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