Bill: Vote One Bite of the Apple Act

[aubunny]

CONGRESS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF REDMONT​

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A BILL TO

Allow candidates to only run in a single chambers’ election



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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:


PART I — PRELIMINARIES

1. Short Title and Enactment

(1) This Act may be cited as the 'One Bite of the Apple Act'

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

(3) This Act has been authored by Angryhamdog.

(4) This Act has been proposed by Representative malka

(5) This Act has been co-sponsored by Senator Smami.

(6) This Act amends the following acts:

(a) Electoral Act

2. Reasons and Intent

(1) To create additional competition within general elections, and to make them more interesting.

(2) To prevent dominant political figures from ‘hedging their bets’.


PART II — Amendments

3. Electoral Act Amendments

(1) The Electoral Act shall be amended as follows:


4- Electoral Terms and Limitations

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

(f) In legislative general elections, an individual may only run for election to one chamber of congress. If an individual has declared for both chambers, their most recent declaration shall supersede a previous declaration.

 

[ToadKing]

(4) The title of a bill must explain the purpose of the bill and may not contain any personal identifiers such as names, initials and abbreviations referring to persons, business names, company names, trademarks, brand names, or any other commercial identifiers.

(5) Title Enforcement and Clarifications

(a) For the purposes of subsection (4):

(i) "Business names" include the names of any for-profit or non-profit organisations, corporations, sole
proprietorships, or other commercial entities.

(ii) "Trademarks" include registered trademarks, service marks, trade names, and any other distinctive commercial identifiers.

(iii) "Brand names" include product names, service names, and any other commercial branding elements.

Apple would like a word with you.

 

[ToadKing]

- We should not be placing arbitrary restrictions on who can be candidates for specific elections, outside of what the Constitution requires.

 

[Silly Billy(Raz0Baz0)]

This will do nothing but lock out the senate for smaller parties, if this targeted exclusively independent candidates I could see a better argument. In this act's current form I simply cannot support this.

 

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Nay — decreases quality of representation

 

[Darklander]

Despite the impopularity of the act, I will be ayeing. I don't particularly appreciate people running for House as a "back up" in case they lose a senatorial election.

 

[pricelessAgrari]

Nay- I really don’t understand why we would need to make this change. Don’t need to diminish the quality of representation in our Congress.