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[TLDR] I've set up mailboxes at all residences in the FDR I could find that did not already have a mailbox, including the homes in Shackistan if that's still your only home you own. I've also set up a secure ballot box in the Town Hall, designed so that the obby encasing it is reinforced by the Defence Ministry, but the ballot box within it is only accessible by the post office (for now), and two snitches are set up with one on each group to ensure accountability. I believe these should work in conjunction to create a new system of voting in-game.
This act shall amend Article 2.1 of the Constitution in the following ways, with new text in bold:
2.1.1 Proposals
Citizens who wish to propose bills and ideas to be considered by the populace at large may make a post with “[Proposal #]” and the proposal name in the title. Proposals are allowed to be made only on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday of any given week. The "#" in the proposal post title must correspond with the order in which the proposal was made during its given legislative session. For example, the first proposal made during the session shall be titled "[Proposal 1]", the second proposal posted in that session would be titled "[Proposal 2]" and so on and so forth.
Any debate and discussion may occur in these posts, and all people are free to offer revisions, suggestions, or ask for clarifications on the items discussed.
Citizens may decide to abandon proposals they deem to be unwanted or unwelcome before they make a voting post. They may do so by editing into the bottom of their proposal that they are abandoning their proposal and that no further discussion is necessary.
2.1.2 Voting
On Saturday or Sunday of the same week, the citizen who proposed the bill may make a voting post containing “[Vote]” and the proposal name in the title. They must link the proposal post in the vote post. Discussion is not allowed in vote posts. Citizens shall vote on proposals not by commenting on the post but by depositing signed books containing their votes into an official FDR ballot box. Voters should use the number of the proposal when submitting their vote. For example, if a voter wanted to vote Aye on the proposal titled "[Proposal 1]", their vote should look like "1. Aye".
2.1.3 Results
Voting shall stop 168 hours (exactly 1 week) after a vote post has been made. If more than 50% of voters approve, the proposal shall be passed into law. The Interior Minister is responsible for collecting the signed books in the ballot box, counting the votes, and making a post with "[Results]" in the title no more than 4 days after voting has stopped. The Interior Minister must not name any voters in the post so as to keep them anonymous. The post must contain the number of ayes, nays, and whether each of the proposals passed. After the results are posted, the Interior Minister must put all of the signed books in a chest next to the ballot box that is accessible to all Danzilonans to ensure transparency and accountability in the vote count. The signed books shall remain there until the end of the next legislative session, where the process repeats itself.
Article 2.2 is also amended in the following way:
This constitution may be amended using the method described in the Legislative Session Act with the exception that the approval threshold is increased to 2/3rds majority of the voters.
The act shall also amend Article 3.1 to make it so that elections are also carried out in game and also go on for longer:
3.1 Elections.
Government officials are elected monthly by the citizens. If one wishes to be a government official, they must be a citizen and announce their candidacy 7 days before the end of the month. Voting will begin 5 days before the end of the month. Citizens vote for candidates using the alternative vote system. On the last day of the month, the votes are tallied, and the winners are announced. The winners assume their positions the next day. Government officials can be recalled by a 75% majority vote (besides in the case of the Defence Minister), and if a recall is successful, a new official will be elected in their place to serve the remainder of their term. The elections are conducted in-game in the same manner as a normal vote as described in Article 2.1 unless otherwise stated.
This act shall also officially create the office of Postmaster as such:
3.5 The Postmaster
The Postmaster (PM) is an independent governmental body in charge of carrying out in-game voting as well as a number of other services established at their discretion.
The Postmaster's responsibilities include:
Ensuring that each Danzilonan citizen has a mailbox outside each of their residences, free of charge.
Delivering writable books to each mailbox on a basis frequent enough to ensure each citizen has enough books to vote during every legislative session and election.Ensuring the safety of the FDR's ballot box by maintaining and checking their snitch to ensure accountability in the voting process.
Offering a number of other private services at a price decided at their discretion, including but not limited to post office boxes and courier services.
The office of Postmaster shall be held by anyone who wishes to volunteer and is approved of by a majority consensus of respondents in a Discord thread accessible only by citizens in the Danzilona discord. Their term is indefinite and shall be recallable in the same manner as their approval.
The Postmaster may recruit other volunteers to help carry out private services at their discretion but are not allowed to add anyone else to the group their ballot box snitch is reinforced on.
This act shall sunset exactly 3 months after its passage and can be renewed indefinitely thereafter with a simple majority vote.
This was a lot and I may have missed something, so do let me know what you think!
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