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BILL
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Provided for Increased Election Transparency Requirements
BILL
To
Provided for Increased Election Transparency Requirements
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 Transparency Act'
(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.
(3) This Act has been authored by Omegabiebel with input from DOS and Secretary Technofied.
(4) This Act has been co-sponsored by Senator CaseyLeFaye.
2 - Reasons
(1) Currently a FOI request needs to be sent if you want data, which may take a long time
(2) We’ve been relying too much on DOS policy to make sure their systems work, “trusting” secretaries to audit their systems.
(3) While Tech and his team have really turned the DOS around, DOS wasn’t always managed this well and there is no guarantee it will continue to be managed this well.
(4) Elections are enormously important and therefore justify the use of strict laws.
(5) To amend the Electoral Act.
3 - Transparency
(1) The following section shall be added to 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.
(2) 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.
(3) The DOS shall release the result of each election within 48 hours after the polls close.
(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.
(5) The DOS shall release the anonymous votes of an election or referendum within 24 hours of results being published.
(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.”
(2) Section 12 of the Electoral Act shall be amended as follows:
“12 - Electoral Officers
(1) Electoral Officers are charged with ensuring that elections are carried out in accordance with the wording and spirit of this act.
(2) Electoral Officers are charged with ensuring that elected offices with activity requirements are met and maintained.
(3) Electoral Officers are charged with serving as the stewards of free and fair elections.
(4) Electoral Officers are strictly prohibited from tabulating/calculating results for elections they are running in.
(5) Electoral Officers may facilitate an election in which they are running only under the strict supervision of another Electoral Officer. This conflict of interest along with the supervising electoral officer shall always be publicly disclosed.
(6) Electoral Officers shall have the obligation to report any and all appearances and actual violations of the Electoral Act and of the free and fair character of an election or referendum to the Secretary of the Department of State.”
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