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CONGRESS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF REDMONT
A BILL TO
LEGALLY MANDATE RANDOMIZED CANDIDATE LISTS
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 ‘No More Donkey Votes Act’
(2) This Act shall be enacted once the election plugin is capable of performing the necessary revisions in this Act.
(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 starts on a random player and wraps around for each voter.
(4) The original intention of the bill has been maintained, however how this shall be achieved has been changed entirely. Credits go to Rorroh and unalign.
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 first candidate on each ballot shall be randomized, with subsequent candidates listed alphabetically. This process shall be done independently for each voter's ballot.
(a) If the alphabetically final candidate is reached before all candidates have been listed, then the sequence shall continue with the alphabetically first candidate and stop once all candidates have been listed on the ballot.
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- I have asked staff, they said it would be possible but that it would take awhile to edit. This is a good step, but we must understand we probably won't get this for awhile.