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PARLIAMENT VOTE: 6-0-0
1 - Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the ‘Alexandrian Electoral Act’.
(2) This Act shall be numbered as P.B.00-023.
(3) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.
(4) This Act has been authored by Deputy Prime Minister TheReal42Person.
(5) This Act has been co-sponsored by Prime Minister casualgreyknight.
2 - Reasons
(1) The Kingdom of Alexandria currently has no election law.
(2) Its system of elections is outlined in the Constitution, but not expanded upon.
(3) Elections should be a matter of stable law, not Ministry policy.
(4) Note: This act is based on Redmont’s Electoral Act.
(5) Note: This act references bills that have not yet become law. If one of these bills does not become law, this act must be amended to exclude that reference.
3 - Election Integrity
(1) In order to ensure the integrity of our elections, a special position called the Electoral Adjudicator shall be established within the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
(2) The Electoral Adjudicator shall be appointed by the Minister of Internal Affairs with consent of a supermajority of the Parliament, and shall only serve for the time of a general election.
(a) The previous Electoral Adjudicator shall automatically be re-appointed for any Special Elections during the next Parliamentary term.
(3) The Electoral Adjudicator shall have full authority and oversight over election data, setup, management, and employees.
4 - Electoral Terms and Limitations
(1) Parties are to submit their endorsements for direct mandates and their party list for proportional seat allocation during the submission period.
(a) Parties may make amends until the submission period is over.
(b) The list must denote a candidate as the 'party leader' (this does not need to be the same as the leader of the political party, just a parliamentary party leader).
(i) This player will become the party’s Prime Minister candidate.
(1a) Direct Candidates are to declare their candidacy during the submission period.
(a) They must declare which party they are running with, or that they are running as an independent.
(b) If running with a political party, they must have the endorsement of that party.
(c) If running as an independent, they shall make a post in a petition thread opened by the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the beginning of the Declaration period where they shall state: “I, <name>, will contest a direct mandate as an independent.”
(i) This post must obtain five or more Aye-Reactions before the beginning of the voting period for the candidate to be listed.
(2) Parties are to submit their party manifesto on or before the fifth day of the election.
(a) A party manifesto must consist of the party’s policies, agenda, and links to the party’s candidate list, party charter/constitution/by-laws, party discord, and party registration page.
(2a) Direct Candidates are to submit their candidate manifesto on or before the fifth day of the election.
(a) A candidate manifesto must consist of the candidate's policies and agenda.
(3) Each party or candidate is to be listed separately on the ballot.
(4) Political parties cannot sponsor a higher number of candidates than seats that are up to vote.
(5) Unless otherwise provided, General Elections shall operate on an eight-day schedule, with the following periods:
(a) Submission Period. A five-day-long period beginning an election where parties submit their candidate lists and party manifestos and independent candidates can declare.
(b) Voting Period. Three-day-long period where all citizens may cast their votes.
(c) Announcement Period. Election results are released at the earliest opportunity after the voting period has closed.
(6) The requirements for candidates shall be as follows:
(a) 6 hours of total active playtime;
(b) Four hours (4h) of active playtime in the past 30 days (30d);
(c) Active in-game, on discord, and on forums;
(d) No convictions that bar the candidate from serving in Parliament.
(7) Activity requirements shall be taken at the end of the submission period.
5 - General Terms
(1) Voters cast three votes of which they cast one ranked choice vote for a direct candidate — the candidate vote — as well as two for distinct political parties - one primary vote and one substitute vote.
(2) One half of mandates, rounded up, shall be elected directly through a system of Single Transferrable Vote.
(3) The remaining mandates shall be allocated to the parties in such a manner so that taken together, proportional representation under Sainte-Laguë is achieved.
5a - Direct Mandates
(1) Voting Process. As their direct vote, voters rank the candidates by preference.
(a) Minimum five preferences or all candidates if less than five.
(2) Vote Threshold for Election.
(a) The threshold (quota) for election is computed by dividing the number of valid ballots by the number of direct mandates plus one.
(b) If votes for a candidate surpasses this threshold they are immediately elected.
(c) Vote counts shall always be rounded to five decimals (0.00001).
(3) Surplus Votes. If a candidate receives more votes than needed to meet the threshold, then the surplus votes are transferred to the next preference on the voters' ballots according to the Gregory method of redistribution.
(a) The Gregory Fractional Transfer (GFT) Method is a fractional transfer method where all ballot papers are distributed on the election of a candidate but at a fractional value, the Transfer Value.
(i) All votes for the candidate that has been elected with a surplus are reweighted by multiplying the vote weight by the transfer value.
(ii) The reweighted votes are then allocated to the next preference indicated on each ballot.
(iii) The Transfer Value is determined by the formula:
(V - T) / (V)
*V is the amount of votes the candidate received.
*T is the threshold of votes needed to be elected.
(iv) Vote counts shall always be rounded to five decimals (0.00001).
(4) Elimination of Low-Scoring Candidates
(a) If direct mandates remain and all candidates have fewer votes than the threshold, the candidate(s) with the fewest votes is eliminated.
(b) Where the number of candidates to be eliminated exceeds the amount required to allocate the remaining direct mandates, or there is a tie that otherwise needs to be resolved; the tied candidates will be eliminated sequentially based on the results of the previous round of voting. This process is repeated sequentially through preceding rounds as required.
(c) Where it is not possible to eliminate in an unresolvable tie, then the tied candidates will be eliminated at random through:
(i) a random selection within the eye of the public; and
(ii) through a computer generated choice in a way which a specific response cannot be elicited.
(d) The votes of the eliminated candidate(s) are then transferred to the next preference on the voters' ballots.
(5) Repeat Process. Steps 2(b), 3 and 4 are repeated until all direct mandates are allocated.
(6) Winner Determination. The process continues until all direct mandates are allocated. The candidate with the most votes after the final round of counting is declared the winner of the final mandate.
(a) If the amount of direct mandates remaining is equal to the amount of candidates, the remaining candidates are elected.
5b - Proportional Representation
(1) All seats shall now be allocated in accordance with Sainte-Lague amongst eligible parties.
(2) An "Independent" option shall be included on the party ballot. For the purposes of seat allocation and candidate election, all independent candidates shall be grouped into an independent bloc represented by this option.
(3) Eligibility for Seat Allocation. No political party shall be eligible for a seat allocation unless it receives a number of valid votes equal or greater than the threshold of total valid votes cast divided by the total number of seats available for allocation.
(a) For the purposes of this act, the formula to calculate eligibility shall be: Threshold = Total Valid Votes Cast/Total Seats to be Allocated
(b) For the purposes of calculating the threshold, the result shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number.
(c) Parties that are ineligible shall not be included in seat allocation calculation.
(4) Before proceeding with seat allocation, if a party is disqualified from seat allocation for any reason, the ballots received by that party are transferred to each respective ballot's substitute vote.
(5) Seat Allocation. Seats shall be allocated to each party using the Sainte-Laguë method. In this system, successive quotients are calculated for each party using the following formula: q=v/(s*2+1).
(a) 'Q' represents the quotient for that round.
(b) 'V' represents the total votes the party received.
(c) 'S' represents the number of seats the party has been allocated so far, initially zero (0) for all parties.
(6) Once the independent bloc has been allocated as many seats as there were independent candidates who won direct mandates, it shall no longer be eligible to receive any more seats, and shall be ignored for the remainder of the seat allocation process.
(7) Example for Seat Allocation. 12 seats are allocated among 4 parties. The parties A, B, C, and D earn combined 25, 13, 18, and 7 primary and substitute votes respectively .
(a) Party A's quotient for the first round will be 25/(0*2+1), which equals 25. Party B, C, and D's quotients are 13, 18, and 7, respectively.
(i) Party A received the highest quotient of 25 in the first round, and is allocated 1 seat.
(b) In the second round, Party A's quotient will be 12.5 25/(1*2+1), which equals 8.33. Party B, C, and D's quotients are 13, 18, and 7, respectively.
(i) Party C received the highest quotient of 18 in the second round, and is allocated 1 seat.
(8) Winner Determination. This process is repeated for all parties until all seats are filled.
5c - Candidate Election
(1) After seat apportionment, direct candidates are elected to seats which have been allocated to their party in order from most to least first-choice votes received on the candidate ballot.
(a) If there are more winning direct candidates from a party than there are seats allocated to that party, then the lower-ranking direct candidates are not elected to seats.
(2) After the direct candidates have been seated, party-list candidates are elected to their respective party’s unfilled seats.
(a) Any party-list candidate who has already been elected as a direct candidate is ignored and the next unelected candidate on the party list is elected instead.
(3) If any party was apportioned seats which it could not fill, it may nominate a member to fill those seats. If any seats remain unfilled after 14 days, a special election must be held to fill those seats.
6 - Parliamentary Special Elections
(1) In the event of a vacancy in Parliament, in line with the Legislative Branch Act, if Parliament cannot agree on a replacement within 72 hours, a Special Election shall be held.
(a) If a General Election is scheduled within two weeks of the vacancy opening, a Special Election will not be called.
(2) Election Timeline. A Special Election shall consist of a 48-hour declaration period, followed by a 24-hour campaign period, followed by a 24-hour voting period.
(3) Election Process. Special Elections will follow a winner-takes-all system, where the candidate who receives a plurality of votes wins the seat.
(a) If multiple seats are vacant, the top candidates shall fill the seats until there are no remaining vacancies.
(4) Tie Resolution. In the event of a tie between two or more candidates, a 24-hour runoff shall be conducted in which the candidate(s) who receive the plurality of the votes shall fill the vacant seat(s).
(5) Sitting Members of Parliament may not run in a Special Election.
9 - Removal of a Member of Parliament
(1) A Member of Parliament may be removed through the processes outlined in the Legislative Branch Act and/or the Civic Engagement Act.
10 - Election Fraud Process
(1) Where electoral results are flagged for fraudulent behavior, the Government will be responsible for contesting the votes in Court.
(a) The previous government shall remain in power temporarily while the dispute is resolved.
11 - Electoral Officers
(1) The following positions shall be considered Electoral Officers:
(a) Electoral Registrar;
(b) Electoral Director;
(c) Electoral Adjudicator.
(2) Electoral Officers are charged with ensuring that elections are carried out in accordance with the wording and spirit of this act.
(3) Electoral Officers are charged with ensuring that elected offices with activity requirements are met and maintained.
(4) Electoral Officers are charged with serving as the stewards of free and fair elections.
12 - Referendums and Recall Elections
(1) Referendums and Recall Elections shall be outlined in the Civic Engagement Act.
13 - Polling Places
(1) Polling places are selected by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
(a) Consideration must be taken to ensure accessibility, convenience, and efficiency for voters (major landmarks, access to /spawns and public transportation).
(b) Polling places must be on public land or in public buildings.
(c) There must be at least one polling place in the Ministry of Internal Affairs building.
14 - Electoral Emergency
(1) The Minister of Internal Affairs has the exclusive power to declare an electoral emergency.
(2) An electoral emergency is called when an in-game election cannot be conducted reliably in-game.
(3) Under an electoral emergency, all elections will be conducted on the forums until declared otherwise by the Minister of Internal Affairs.
15 - Voting Requirements
(1) All citizens that meet the following requirements are eligible to vote.
(a) Have at least four hours (4h) of playtime in the past 30 days (30d).
(2) Residents and tourists may not vote in elections.
(3) The Ministry of Internal Affairs may not put additional voting requirements into place.
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Bill
To
Establish Election Procedures
Bill
To
Establish Election Procedures
1 - Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the ‘Alexandrian Electoral Act’.
(2) This Act shall be numbered as P.B.00-023.
(3) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.
(4) This Act has been authored by Deputy Prime Minister TheReal42Person.
(5) This Act has been co-sponsored by Prime Minister casualgreyknight.
2 - Reasons
(1) The Kingdom of Alexandria currently has no election law.
(2) Its system of elections is outlined in the Constitution, but not expanded upon.
(3) Elections should be a matter of stable law, not Ministry policy.
(4) Note: This act is based on Redmont’s Electoral Act.
(5) Note: This act references bills that have not yet become law. If one of these bills does not become law, this act must be amended to exclude that reference.
3 - Election Integrity
(1) In order to ensure the integrity of our elections, a special position called the Electoral Adjudicator shall be established within the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
(2) The Electoral Adjudicator shall be appointed by the Minister of Internal Affairs with consent of a supermajority of the Parliament, and shall only serve for the time of a general election.
(a) The previous Electoral Adjudicator shall automatically be re-appointed for any Special Elections during the next Parliamentary term.
(3) The Electoral Adjudicator shall have full authority and oversight over election data, setup, management, and employees.
4 - Electoral Terms and Limitations
(1) Parties are to submit their endorsements for direct mandates and their party list for proportional seat allocation during the submission period.
(a) Parties may make amends until the submission period is over.
(b) The list must denote a candidate as the 'party leader' (this does not need to be the same as the leader of the political party, just a parliamentary party leader).
(i) This player will become the party’s Prime Minister candidate.
(1a) Direct Candidates are to declare their candidacy during the submission period.
(a) They must declare which party they are running with, or that they are running as an independent.
(b) If running with a political party, they must have the endorsement of that party.
(c) If running as an independent, they shall make a post in a petition thread opened by the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the beginning of the Declaration period where they shall state: “I, <name>, will contest a direct mandate as an independent.”
(i) This post must obtain five or more Aye-Reactions before the beginning of the voting period for the candidate to be listed.
(2) Parties are to submit their party manifesto on or before the fifth day of the election.
(a) A party manifesto must consist of the party’s policies, agenda, and links to the party’s candidate list, party charter/constitution/by-laws, party discord, and party registration page.
(2a) Direct Candidates are to submit their candidate manifesto on or before the fifth day of the election.
(a) A candidate manifesto must consist of the candidate's policies and agenda.
(3) Each party or candidate is to be listed separately on the ballot.
(4) Political parties cannot sponsor a higher number of candidates than seats that are up to vote.
(5) Unless otherwise provided, General Elections shall operate on an eight-day schedule, with the following periods:
(a) Submission Period. A five-day-long period beginning an election where parties submit their candidate lists and party manifestos and independent candidates can declare.
(b) Voting Period. Three-day-long period where all citizens may cast their votes.
(c) Announcement Period. Election results are released at the earliest opportunity after the voting period has closed.
(6) The requirements for candidates shall be as follows:
(a) 6 hours of total active playtime;
(b) Four hours (4h) of active playtime in the past 30 days (30d);
(c) Active in-game, on discord, and on forums;
(d) No convictions that bar the candidate from serving in Parliament.
(7) Activity requirements shall be taken at the end of the submission period.
5 - General Terms
(1) Voters cast three votes of which they cast one ranked choice vote for a direct candidate — the candidate vote — as well as two for distinct political parties - one primary vote and one substitute vote.
(2) One half of mandates, rounded up, shall be elected directly through a system of Single Transferrable Vote.
(3) The remaining mandates shall be allocated to the parties in such a manner so that taken together, proportional representation under Sainte-Laguë is achieved.
5a - Direct Mandates
(1) Voting Process. As their direct vote, voters rank the candidates by preference.
(a) Minimum five preferences or all candidates if less than five.
(2) Vote Threshold for Election.
(a) The threshold (quota) for election is computed by dividing the number of valid ballots by the number of direct mandates plus one.
(b) If votes for a candidate surpasses this threshold they are immediately elected.
(c) Vote counts shall always be rounded to five decimals (0.00001).
(3) Surplus Votes. If a candidate receives more votes than needed to meet the threshold, then the surplus votes are transferred to the next preference on the voters' ballots according to the Gregory method of redistribution.
(a) The Gregory Fractional Transfer (GFT) Method is a fractional transfer method where all ballot papers are distributed on the election of a candidate but at a fractional value, the Transfer Value.
(i) All votes for the candidate that has been elected with a surplus are reweighted by multiplying the vote weight by the transfer value.
(ii) The reweighted votes are then allocated to the next preference indicated on each ballot.
(iii) The Transfer Value is determined by the formula:
(V - T) / (V)
*V is the amount of votes the candidate received.
*T is the threshold of votes needed to be elected.
(iv) Vote counts shall always be rounded to five decimals (0.00001).
(4) Elimination of Low-Scoring Candidates
(a) If direct mandates remain and all candidates have fewer votes than the threshold, the candidate(s) with the fewest votes is eliminated.
(b) Where the number of candidates to be eliminated exceeds the amount required to allocate the remaining direct mandates, or there is a tie that otherwise needs to be resolved; the tied candidates will be eliminated sequentially based on the results of the previous round of voting. This process is repeated sequentially through preceding rounds as required.
(c) Where it is not possible to eliminate in an unresolvable tie, then the tied candidates will be eliminated at random through:
(i) a random selection within the eye of the public; and
(ii) through a computer generated choice in a way which a specific response cannot be elicited.
(d) The votes of the eliminated candidate(s) are then transferred to the next preference on the voters' ballots.
(5) Repeat Process. Steps 2(b), 3 and 4 are repeated until all direct mandates are allocated.
(6) Winner Determination. The process continues until all direct mandates are allocated. The candidate with the most votes after the final round of counting is declared the winner of the final mandate.
(a) If the amount of direct mandates remaining is equal to the amount of candidates, the remaining candidates are elected.
5b - Proportional Representation
(1) All seats shall now be allocated in accordance with Sainte-Lague amongst eligible parties.
(2) An "Independent" option shall be included on the party ballot. For the purposes of seat allocation and candidate election, all independent candidates shall be grouped into an independent bloc represented by this option.
(3) Eligibility for Seat Allocation. No political party shall be eligible for a seat allocation unless it receives a number of valid votes equal or greater than the threshold of total valid votes cast divided by the total number of seats available for allocation.
(a) For the purposes of this act, the formula to calculate eligibility shall be: Threshold = Total Valid Votes Cast/Total Seats to be Allocated
(b) For the purposes of calculating the threshold, the result shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number.
(c) Parties that are ineligible shall not be included in seat allocation calculation.
(4) Before proceeding with seat allocation, if a party is disqualified from seat allocation for any reason, the ballots received by that party are transferred to each respective ballot's substitute vote.
(5) Seat Allocation. Seats shall be allocated to each party using the Sainte-Laguë method. In this system, successive quotients are calculated for each party using the following formula: q=v/(s*2+1).
(a) 'Q' represents the quotient for that round.
(b) 'V' represents the total votes the party received.
(c) 'S' represents the number of seats the party has been allocated so far, initially zero (0) for all parties.
(6) Once the independent bloc has been allocated as many seats as there were independent candidates who won direct mandates, it shall no longer be eligible to receive any more seats, and shall be ignored for the remainder of the seat allocation process.
(7) Example for Seat Allocation. 12 seats are allocated among 4 parties. The parties A, B, C, and D earn combined 25, 13, 18, and 7 primary and substitute votes respectively .
(a) Party A's quotient for the first round will be 25/(0*2+1), which equals 25. Party B, C, and D's quotients are 13, 18, and 7, respectively.
(i) Party A received the highest quotient of 25 in the first round, and is allocated 1 seat.
(b) In the second round, Party A's quotient will be 12.5 25/(1*2+1), which equals 8.33. Party B, C, and D's quotients are 13, 18, and 7, respectively.
(i) Party C received the highest quotient of 18 in the second round, and is allocated 1 seat.
(8) Winner Determination. This process is repeated for all parties until all seats are filled.
5c - Candidate Election
(1) After seat apportionment, direct candidates are elected to seats which have been allocated to their party in order from most to least first-choice votes received on the candidate ballot.
(a) If there are more winning direct candidates from a party than there are seats allocated to that party, then the lower-ranking direct candidates are not elected to seats.
(2) After the direct candidates have been seated, party-list candidates are elected to their respective party’s unfilled seats.
(a) Any party-list candidate who has already been elected as a direct candidate is ignored and the next unelected candidate on the party list is elected instead.
(3) If any party was apportioned seats which it could not fill, it may nominate a member to fill those seats. If any seats remain unfilled after 14 days, a special election must be held to fill those seats.
6 - Parliamentary Special Elections
(1) In the event of a vacancy in Parliament, in line with the Legislative Branch Act, if Parliament cannot agree on a replacement within 72 hours, a Special Election shall be held.
(a) If a General Election is scheduled within two weeks of the vacancy opening, a Special Election will not be called.
(2) Election Timeline. A Special Election shall consist of a 48-hour declaration period, followed by a 24-hour campaign period, followed by a 24-hour voting period.
(3) Election Process. Special Elections will follow a winner-takes-all system, where the candidate who receives a plurality of votes wins the seat.
(a) If multiple seats are vacant, the top candidates shall fill the seats until there are no remaining vacancies.
(4) Tie Resolution. In the event of a tie between two or more candidates, a 24-hour runoff shall be conducted in which the candidate(s) who receive the plurality of the votes shall fill the vacant seat(s).
(5) Sitting Members of Parliament may not run in a Special Election.
9 - Removal of a Member of Parliament
(1) A Member of Parliament may be removed through the processes outlined in the Legislative Branch Act and/or the Civic Engagement Act.
10 - Election Fraud Process
(1) Where electoral results are flagged for fraudulent behavior, the Government will be responsible for contesting the votes in Court.
(a) The previous government shall remain in power temporarily while the dispute is resolved.
11 - Electoral Officers
(1) The following positions shall be considered Electoral Officers:
(a) Electoral Registrar;
(b) Electoral Director;
(c) Electoral Adjudicator.
(2) Electoral Officers are charged with ensuring that elections are carried out in accordance with the wording and spirit of this act.
(3) Electoral Officers are charged with ensuring that elected offices with activity requirements are met and maintained.
(4) Electoral Officers are charged with serving as the stewards of free and fair elections.
12 - Referendums and Recall Elections
(1) Referendums and Recall Elections shall be outlined in the Civic Engagement Act.
13 - Polling Places
(1) Polling places are selected by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
(a) Consideration must be taken to ensure accessibility, convenience, and efficiency for voters (major landmarks, access to /spawns and public transportation).
(b) Polling places must be on public land or in public buildings.
(c) There must be at least one polling place in the Ministry of Internal Affairs building.
14 - Electoral Emergency
(1) The Minister of Internal Affairs has the exclusive power to declare an electoral emergency.
(2) An electoral emergency is called when an in-game election cannot be conducted reliably in-game.
(3) Under an electoral emergency, all elections will be conducted on the forums until declared otherwise by the Minister of Internal Affairs.
15 - Voting Requirements
(1) All citizens that meet the following requirements are eligible to vote.
(a) Have at least four hours (4h) of playtime in the past 30 days (30d).
(2) Residents and tourists may not vote in elections.
(3) The Ministry of Internal Affairs may not put additional voting requirements into place.
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