Post by studentloandebt on Apr 8, 2021 16:54:32 GMT
This legislation is up for scrutiny until April 11th.
Category: Procedures
Author: Student Loan Debt
Chapter I: General Provisions
1. This act may be referred to as the Warning Here And Today About Recent Entry Y'all Entertained, Directly Obstructing Internal Native Governance, Invested Now & Much Yearning Secure Work Against Manipulating Procedure Act, WHAT ARE YE DOING IN MY SWAMP Act, or the Swamp Act 2. This act will come into force upon passage.
Chapter II: Procedures
1. The Rules and Procedures document shall be amended to include the following changes. 2. The following shall be added to Section 3.1 Ballot Security Procedures, Subsection 3.1.1 - Maintaining Ballot Security
4. When a piece of legislation is put forward for scrutiny, no applications made to enter Congress that are submitted after the legislation is put forward for scrutiny may be processed until after either the proposed legislation is retracted, the vote on the legislation has concluded, or the legislation has failed to be moved to vote within 3 days of the conclusion of the scrutiny period. If the voting period occurs after 3 days from the conclusion of the scrutiny period, applications into Congress may be processed until the voting period has begun, in which case the halt on applications will continue until the vote has concluded. 5. If a resident has applied for Congress and had their application halted for 6 or more days as result of legislation being submitted, their application may be processed after those 6 days.
Post by studentloandebt on Apr 8, 2021 17:08:23 GMT
This bill comes as result of a bill that was put forward last year in the DSA (linked below). The bill removed the DSA from an interregional pact and is momentous for having a record shattering 76 votes upon its passage. The highest a DSA bill would ever get would be around 40 with an average number between 10-20. There has never been a time in the DSA where there were even 76 active residents, let alone active Members of Congress. With consideration of the mind blowingly high number of votes here, the massive arguments erupting at the time leading up to this bill passing, and the amount of regions invested in this, I believe this can be considered blatant vote tampering with non-DSA members coming into the region and applying for Congress just to vote on this bill and nothing else, resulting in a lot of foreign influence in DSA legislative matters. The bil I put forward today is to prevent that from happening again.
There would not have been this much tampering if Congress applications were halted until the bill has finished its vote and I fear it happening again of people joining Congress only to vote on a certain bill. This was a common thing before last year when there was a large group of people in the DSA Congress whose main nations were in other regions and they only engaged with the DSA to vote in a bloc against bills that affected their personal interests and not for the betterment of the DSA.