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The Eighteenth Amendment to the Charter of the Democratic Socialist Assembly
Author(s): Laevendell
Co-Signer(s): N/A
Date Enacted: 21 August 2011
Final Vote Count: 8-0-0
Author(s): Laevendell
Co-Signer(s): N/A
Date Enacted: 21 August 2011
Final Vote Count: 8-0-0
"This amendment intended to make our voting system for elections more democratic, as well as allow Charter member to run for more than one office (though only attain one). It replaced our previous model (first-past-the-post) with another model, often called alternative voting or preferential voting."
The following changes are made to Art. III, Sec. II (with changes made explicit):
The following changes are made to Art. III, Sec. II (with changes made explicit):
Clause II. Nominations for government positions shall begin at 00:00 GMT on the 60th day of the terms and close at 00:00 GMT on the 65th day, thereby lasting five full days. Nations who are nominated by other nations shall be sent a notification telegram by the Secretary-General and will be able to accept or decline their nomination or nominations until 00:00 GMT on the 67th day; candidates that have been nominated for more than one office must select which office they choose to run for, before the end of this acceptance period - only one office may be chosen candidates can accept nominations for several offices, but can only be elected to one. The final candidates shall then be posted and a vote set before 23:59 GMT of that day. Voting shall begin at 00:00 GMT on the 68th day of the terms and close at 00:00 GMT on the 75th day, thereby lasting seven full days. Votes shall then be tallied and the elected officers announced before 23:59 GMT of that day. The nation with the most votes for each position at the end of the voting period will ascend to the office in which it was elected The elected officer for each position will be determined in the following manner:
1) During the voting period, a Charter member may vote for any number of nominees for each office, numbering them in descending order from first preference to last.
2) When the votes for each office are counted, only first preference votes are considered. If one candidate has more than 50% of the total votes for that office or they are the only running nominee, they are elected to that office and no further votes for that office are counted.
3) Should no candidate have more than 50% of the votes for that office, the nominee with the fewest first preference votes is eliminated and the second preference votes for that office of the voters whose first preference votes were eliminated are counted and added to the previous first preference votes. If one candidate now has more than 50% of the total votes for that office or they are the only nominee left, they are elected to that office and no further votes for that office are counted.
4) This procedure is repeated, eliminating nominees with the fewest votes at the counted preference level and counting the votes at the next lower preference level of the voters whose votes were eliminated and adding them to the total number of votes, until one candidate has more than 50% of the votes or there is only one nominee left for that office.
If a Charter member is elected to more than one office, they will be required to declare what office they wish to take up before the start of the new term. That Charter member will then be eliminated from the vote counts for the other offices and votes for those other offices will be recounted.
At 00:00 GMT on the 76th day of the terms, the newly elected officials shall take up their positions and the term cycle shall reset.
Clause III. Every seventy-five (75) days, concurrent with the election of the other Council positions, the Congress shall select a candidate for the position of WA Delegate. The Delegate shall be selected from among members of the DSA in good standing, who are also WA members, bya majority vote of all Congress members voting the same voting procedure as laid out in Clause III of this section. Once a candidate has been selected it is to be announced to the region, asking that all members of the DSA who are also WA members endorse the candidate. Endorsement of the Congress candidate for WA Delegate is non-mandatory. The new WA Delegate is selected by being the nation with the highest number of endorsements seven (7) full days after the announcement of the Congress candidate, whether this is the Congress candidate or not. In the event of the selected WA Delegate not having signed the Charter, it will be requested to do so. If the selected WA Delegate is not a member of the off-site forum it will be requested to register for it, in order for communication between WA Delegate/Council/Congress to work. Should it fail to do so, the Congress may select and announce another candidate to be endorsed, following the procedure set out above.
1) During the voting period, a Charter member may vote for any number of nominees for each office, numbering them in descending order from first preference to last.
2) When the votes for each office are counted, only first preference votes are considered. If one candidate has more than 50% of the total votes for that office or they are the only running nominee, they are elected to that office and no further votes for that office are counted.
3) Should no candidate have more than 50% of the votes for that office, the nominee with the fewest first preference votes is eliminated and the second preference votes for that office of the voters whose first preference votes were eliminated are counted and added to the previous first preference votes. If one candidate now has more than 50% of the total votes for that office or they are the only nominee left, they are elected to that office and no further votes for that office are counted.
4) This procedure is repeated, eliminating nominees with the fewest votes at the counted preference level and counting the votes at the next lower preference level of the voters whose votes were eliminated and adding them to the total number of votes, until one candidate has more than 50% of the votes or there is only one nominee left for that office.
If a Charter member is elected to more than one office, they will be required to declare what office they wish to take up before the start of the new term. That Charter member will then be eliminated from the vote counts for the other offices and votes for those other offices will be recounted.
At 00:00 GMT on the 76th day of the terms, the newly elected officials shall take up their positions and the term cycle shall reset.
Clause III. Every seventy-five (75) days, concurrent with the election of the other Council positions, the Congress shall select a candidate for the position of WA Delegate. The Delegate shall be selected from among members of the DSA in good standing, who are also WA members, by