Bill: Draft Electoral Officer Preservation Act

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BILL
To

Relieve workload on DOS management and ensure that information provided is useful.​

The people of the Commonwealth of Redmont, through their elected Representatives in the Congress and the force of law ordained to that Congress by the people through the constitution, do hereby enact the following provisions into law:

1 - Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the 'Electoral Officer Preservation Act'
(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.
(3) This Act has been authored by Angryhamdog
(4) This Act has been co-sponsored by Rep. malka

2 - Reasons
(1) The Electoral Transparency Act has the right idea in principle, but in practice is bureaucratic, unuseful nonsense, which the DOS leadership didn’t take the time to properly object to (at least, publicly) before the bill was passed.
(2) This act adds a significant amount of work on DOS management to gather everything, some of which is useful and increasing transparency, much of which is not.
(3) To amend the Electoral Act.


3 - Transparency
(1) The following section shall be amended in the Electoral Act:
“17 - Transparency Requirements
(1) The names of all Electoral Officers shall be published publicly within the DOS forums thread and updated at least every 24 hours.
(1) The DOS shall release all scripts, programs, spreadsheets, systems, code, manuals, processes, calculation methods, intermediate election result calculations and documents currently in use for counting congressional elections no later than 7 days before, and no earlier than 14 days before each regular congressional election.
(1) The DOS shall ensure that all scripts, programs, spreadsheet templates, systems, code, manuals, processes, and non-manual counting calculation methods are listed in the department’s forum and promptly updated following any modification.
(2) The DOS shall release the result of each election within 48 hours after the polls close.
(3) The DOS shall release the anonymous votes of an election or referendum within 2448 hours of results being published.
(4) The DOS shall, within 48 hours of results being published, release the names of all members who assisted with the tabulation of that election.[0m
(5) The DOS shall, within 7 days after the close of polls in any election or referendum, release all materials used in the tabulation of that vote, including but not limited to scripts, programs, spreadsheets, and intermediate result calculations.
(4) The DOS shall release all scripts, programs, spreadsheets, systems, code, manuals, processes, calculation methods, intermediate result calculations and documents created or edited after the latest release mandated by §17.(2) related to the voting system, the recording of votes and the result calculation, within 5 days after polls of an election or referendum close.
(a) This shall happen even if there are mistakes, disputes, election failures or any other event that challenges or contests the validity of the election or referendum.
(6) The DOS shall only be exempted from releasing or allowed to partially or fully censor/redact a script, program, spreadsheet, system, code, manual, process or document related to the election system, the recording of votes and the election or referendum result calculation if authorised by Staff.”