07-11-2011, 04:01 PM
Quote:The Delegacy of The South Pacific and Endorsement LawI don't seem to be advancing much in endorsements, and I'm doing the best I can right now, so I think we should just deal with the what ifs of hitting 200 or more endorsements when it happens, because it'll be a while if it does.
<strong class='bbc'>Preamble</strong>
The Assembly of The Coalition of The South Pacific hereby establishes the following procedures and laws via which the delegate position may be legitimately obtained, and the endorsement cap through which the position is maintained. So long as these laws stand any individual acquiring or attempting to acquire the position via any method other than set out bellow shall be considered an enemy of both The Collation of The South Pacific and her Assembly.
<strong class='bbc'>Article I: Delegate Election Types</strong>
Clause I: The Delegate shall be reviewed every three months by elections which shall be split between alternating full elections and mid-term elections.
Clause II: Full elections shall be held in two rounds, the preliminaries on the forums, and the final on-site.
Clause III: Mid-term elections may consist of one to three rounds, depending on if the delegate is reaffirmed.
<strong class='bbc'>Article II: Full Elections</strong>
Clause I: The preliminary voting shall begin and end in concert with the cabinet elections in June and December.
Clause II: The declaration period shall begin 10 days before voting is to start, within this period any World Assembly member within The South Pacific may declare his intent to become delegate and earn a spot on the ballot.
Section A: After declaring his or her candidacy, the rest of the declaration period shall be when a candidate is to campaign.
Section B: Declarations must be made no later than 48 hours before voting is to begin in order to earn a position on the ballot.
Clause III: When voting begins every citizen may vote for one candidate to advance to the final round.
Section A: The two candidates with the highest votes shall advance to the final round.
Section B: In the event of a tie between 3 or more nations, all tied nations advance to the final round.
Clause IV: If no more than two candidates have declared by the declaration deadline, the preliminary elections are to be skipped, and both candidates advance to the final round immediately.
Clause V: The final round shall consist of an on-sight election.
Section A: Beginning at the end of the preliminary election, the candidates in the final round have the authority to break the endorsement cap.
Section B: The contest shall last for two weeks, if at any point a delegate change occurs and a gap of more than 10 endorsements between the new delegate and the nearest candidate the contest is over and the delegate is elected.
Section C: If the requirements in Section B have not been met, the delegate at the end of the 14 days shall be the elected delegate.
Section D: In the event that the incumbent delegate is not a candidate in the finals, but neither candidate overtakes him within the 14 days, the candidate with the highest endorsements behind the incumbent is the legally elected delegate.
<strong class='bbc'>Article III: Mid-Term Elections</strong>
Clause I: The voting of mid-term elections shall be scheduled in concert with that of the March and September Cabinet elections.
Clause II: The Mid-Term election shall occur on the forums, where each citizen will vote for or against keeping the current delegate for three more months.
Clause III: If a majority (50% + 1 vote) of voting citizens vote to reaffirm the delegate, he or she shall serve until the next election.
Clause IV: If a minority (50% - 1 vote) of voting citizens vote to affirm the delegate, the same process that is used in a full election is used, a preliminary election followed by final.
Section A: The sitting delegate may NOT stand for re-election.
Clause V: If the vote is tied, a full election is also held.
Section A: The sitting delegate MAY stand for re-election.
<strong class='bbc'>Article IV: Oversight</strong>
Clause I: The election Commission shall be tasked with managing the on-forum aspects of delegate elections (preliminary and reaffirmation votes).
Clause II: Any charges of wrong doing within the election shall be reported to the Minister of Justice who shall investigate any accusations and hold a trial for any crimes.
<strong class='bbc'>Article V: The Endorsement Cap</strong>
Clause I: All nations of The South Pacific may not normally exceed 100 endorsements at any time, unless the delegate has less than 150 endorsements, in which case they must remain at or bellow 65% of the delegates number.
Section A: The Assembly may change this number by amending this law, it is recommended the number be kept comparable with 50%-70% of the delegate's endorsements.
Clause II: The delegate has the authority to eject and ban any nation in excess of the cap immediately.
Section A: The delegate is encouraged to seek other solutions first, especially asking the offending nation to reduce his endorsements to a level below the cap on his or her own, or leave for one update on their own volition.
Clause III: Nations in the final round of a delegate election, and the Vice-Delegate are exempt from the endorsement cap.
Clause IV: The delegate may, with the approval of the Assembly, allow certain nations too exceed the endorsement limit for an extended period of time for a specific purpose, such as maintaining the security of the region in a time of war. Said nations must reduce their endorsement count to the normal limit if requested to do so either by the delegate or the Assembly.
Clause V: Any nation ejected for breaking the cap three times may be put on trial by the Minister of Justice.
<strong class='bbc'>Article VI:</strong> The Law of Succession / Martial Law shall be repealed from the book of The South Pacific Law, and all references to it in other documents amended.
I think 100 endorsements is fair, especially if I have to have over 150 for anyone to have 100. That leaves a gap of 50 endorsements which is enough IMO. And as I move down from 150, so will the cap.
140 / 91
130 / 84
120 / 78
And then we reach a point where if it ever happened the we're in more trouble than this law can protect us from.
Anyway, I think this is descending into a numbers debate, and we should try to work something out soon so we can have a vote and then move on to other issues hopefully.