No More Donkey Votes Act

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CONGRESS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF REDMONT
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A BILL TO

LEGALLY MANDATE RANDOMIZED CANDIDATE LISTS




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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:


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PART I — PRELIMINARIES

1. Short Title and Enactment

(1) This Act may be cited as the ‘No More Donkey Votes Act’

(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.

(3) This Act has been authored by zLost.

(4) This Act has been co-authored by Rep. Yeet_Boy.

(5) This Act has been co-sponsored by Rep. Alexis_123003.

(6) This Act amends the following acts:

(a) Electoral Act

2. Reasons and Intent

(1) Currently, the candidates list in an election is in alphabetical order. This gives a slight advantage to candidates whose names start with a letter that is at the beginning of the alphabets.

(2) Donkey votes are those votes where the voter ranks the candidates based on the order they appear on the ballot itself.

(3) This bill aims to address both the above issues by mandating the candidate list to be random for each voter.

3. Definitions

(1) For the purposes of this Act, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) Randomized. "assigned, selected, or arranged using a random process, rather than by choice, preference, or any predetermined criteria."

PART II — AMENDMENT

4. AMENDMENT TO THE ELECTORAL ACT

(1) The following changes shall be implemented into the Electoral Act, under Part 4, "Electoral Terms and Limitations":

4- Electoral Terms and Limitations

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(e) All candidates must hold a valid passport issued by the Department of State

(6) The order of candidates on each ballot shall be randomized independently for each voter, such that no fixed candidate order is presented to all voters.