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Government of Taijitu => The Ecclesia => Legislative and Treaty Votes => Topic started by: Gulliver on December 15, 2014, 02:38:35 PM

Title: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Gulliver on December 15, 2014, 02:38:35 PM
This is a runoff between the top two contenders for the original vote (http://forum.taijitu.org/legislative-and-treaty-votes/regional-motto/) on the regional motto. This vote will also last for 5 days.
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Delfos on December 15, 2014, 03:35:17 PM
rematch
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Lindisfarne on December 15, 2014, 06:49:21 PM
Lindisfarne's vote is: None of the above.
I move that all votes should have this choice in the future, in our opinion a basic right in all democratic legislatures.
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Delfos on December 15, 2014, 07:29:47 PM
Lindisfarne's vote is: None of the above.
I move that all votes should have this choice in the future, in our opinion a basic right in all democratic legislatures.

seconded
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Bustos on December 15, 2014, 07:37:02 PM
Lindisfarne's vote is: None of the above.
I move that all votes should have this choice in the future, in our opinion a basic right in all democratic legislatures.

seconded

Third.
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Gulliver on December 15, 2014, 08:00:43 PM
"Reopen nominations" was an option for the initial vote to narrow it down to the top two. Only 1 person out of 16 voted for it, so it didn't make it to the runoff.
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Myroria on December 15, 2014, 08:44:04 PM
If we used Condorcet this wouldn't be an issue, everyone.

Just saying
Just saying
Just saying
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Delfos on December 15, 2014, 09:08:32 PM
hahahaha, in this situation it might make sense, not in a Delegate election.

Just saying
Just saying
Just saying
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Gulliver on December 15, 2014, 09:26:21 PM
It makes perfect sense in this situation: we didn't have an option with an outright majority in the initial vote, so we've narrowed it down to two so that one of them'll be guaranteed to have a majority at the end of a vote, barring a tie. That said I'll add an "abstain" option for people who want to explicitly show that they're deferring to participate in the vote in the same way, as Bustos put it, you might submit a blank ballot at an election.
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Delfos on December 15, 2014, 09:31:34 PM
I pledge to propose to reopen the selection of a new Regional Motto in case Abstain wins, in which case we can also discuss the election method of them Mottos and which Mottos shall be taken to the polls.

Therefore I campaign, Please:
Abstain
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Bustos on December 15, 2014, 09:46:50 PM
Agreed.
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Funkadelia on December 15, 2014, 10:07:11 PM
You already had that option.
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Khem on December 15, 2014, 10:10:12 PM
I agree that this is an example of why to support a condorcet vote system.
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Myroria on December 15, 2014, 10:55:20 PM
I pledge to propose to reopen the selection of a new Regional Motto in case Abstain wins, in which case we can also discuss the election method of them Mottos and which Mottos shall be taken to the polls.

Therefore I campaign, Please:
Abstain

As Funkadelia pointed out, you had this option in the last election and it wasn't chosen so it was removed. That's how a runoff works. Why are you loudly advocating this now instead of weeks ago when we were discussing the mottos to begin with?

This sort of demagoguery is exactly what cripples a direct democracy.
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Delfos on December 15, 2014, 11:52:47 PM
I pledge to propose to reopen the selection of a new Regional Motto in case Abstain wins, in which case we can also discuss the election method of them Mottos and which Mottos shall be taken to the polls.

Therefore I campaign, Please:
Abstain

As Funkadelia pointed out, you had this option in the last election and it wasn't chosen so it was removed. That's how a runoff works. Why are you loudly advocating this now instead of weeks ago when we were discussing the mottos to begin with?

This sort of demagoguery is exactly what cripples a direct democracy.

I loudly advocate whatever I think is right and you have no moral authority over what is campaigned. If we think we need to change it, we will change it.

What cripples this democracy is your autocratic attitudes and prejudices, what cripples democracy is the concentration of power and a ruling class, what cripples democracy is what you try to elude others with your skewed notion of democracy. The Revolution was not done, you have halted the revolution and roam this region back to a retrograde bureaucratic republic.
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Myroria on December 16, 2014, 01:02:16 AM
Then change it. Propose the sweeping reform you desire and get it to pass the legislature. I am a private citizen. I hold exactly as much "power" as you do.
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Delfos on December 16, 2014, 01:07:30 AM
I pledge to propose to reopen the selection of a new Regional Motto in case Abstain wins, in which case we can also discuss the election method of them Mottos and which Mottos shall be taken to the polls.

Therefore I campaign, Please:
Abstain
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Wast on December 16, 2014, 09:37:50 AM
You tempt me with this french motto, but I think the the second is more direct and appropriate to the principles of the region.
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: McMasterdonia on December 16, 2014, 02:18:01 PM
This argument is dumb, even by my standards.

Sometimes I wish you were trolling delfos.
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Allama on December 16, 2014, 02:22:43 PM
I pledge to propose to reopen the selection of a new Regional Motto in case Abstain wins, in which case we can also discuss the election method of them Mottos and which Mottos shall be taken to the polls.

Therefore I campaign, Please:
Abstain

As Funkadelia pointed out, you had this option in the last election and it wasn't chosen so it was removed. That's how a runoff works. Why are you loudly advocating this now instead of weeks ago when we were discussing the mottos to begin with?

This sort of demagoguery is exactly what cripples a direct democracy.

I loudly advocate whatever I think is right and you have no moral authority over what is campaigned. If we think we need to change it, we will change it.

What cripples this democracy is your autocratic attitudes and prejudices, what cripples democracy is the concentration of power and a ruling class, what cripples democracy is what you try to elude others with your skewed notion of democracy. The Revolution was not done, you have halted the revolution and roam this region back to a retrograde bureaucratic republic.

* slams head repeatedly on desk *



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Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Funkadelia on December 16, 2014, 03:00:49 PM
I pledge to propose to reopen the selection of a new Regional Motto in case Abstain wins, in which case we can also discuss the election method of them Mottos and which Mottos shall be taken to the polls.

Therefore I campaign, Please:
Abstain

As Funkadelia pointed out, you had this option in the last election and it wasn't chosen so it was removed. That's how a runoff works. Why are you loudly advocating this now instead of weeks ago when we were discussing the mottos to begin with?

This sort of demagoguery is exactly what cripples a direct democracy.

I loudly advocate whatever I think is right and you have no moral authority over what is campaigned. If we think we need to change it, we will change it.

What cripples this democracy is your autocratic attitudes and prejudices, what cripples democracy is the concentration of power and a ruling class, what cripples democracy is what you try to elude others with your skewed notion of democracy. The Revolution was not done, you have halted the revolution and roam this region back to a retrograde bureaucratic republic.

I, for one, would welcome Myroria as the Taijitu autocrat, but I don't think that will happen anytime soon.
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Myroria on December 16, 2014, 03:07:28 PM
I think we can all agree the only true autocrat in Taijitu can be the fickle, iron, resplendent will of the people.

Also Aniane.

Also Eluvatar.
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: McMasterdonia on December 16, 2014, 03:09:51 PM
I pledge to propose to reopen the selection of a new Regional Motto in case Abstain wins, in which case we can also discuss the election method of them Mottos and which Mottos shall be taken to the polls.

Therefore I campaign, Please:
Abstain

I couldn't agree more.
As Funkadelia pointed out, you had this option in the last election and it wasn't chosen so it was removed. That's how a runoff works. Why are you loudly advocating this now instead of weeks ago when we were discussing the mottos to begin with?

This sort of demagoguery is exactly what cripples a direct democracy.

I loudly advocate whatever I think is right and you have no moral authority over what is campaigned. If we think we need to change it, we will change it.

What cripples this democracy is your autocratic attitudes and prejudices, what cripples democracy is the concentration of power and a ruling class, what cripples democracy is what you try to elude others with your skewed notion of democracy. The Revolution was not done, you have halted the revolution and roam this region back to a retrograde bureaucratic republic.

I, for one, would welcome Myroria as the Taijitu autocrat, but I don't think that will happen anytime soon.
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Khem on December 16, 2014, 06:11:02 PM
I think we can all agree the only true autocrat in Taijitu can be the fickle, iron, resplendent will of the people.

Also Aniane.

Also Eluvatar.
Yes we can agree :tai:
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: St Oz on December 16, 2014, 07:27:59 PM
if voting changed anything it'd be illegal amirite? lelelelellelelelelelelel
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Khem on December 17, 2014, 03:06:00 AM
-insert  hyperbole-
Title: Re: Runoff: Regional Motto
Post by: Myroria on December 20, 2014, 08:14:44 PM
The vote has closed, and it appears that "Voulez-vous donc qu'on vous fasse des révolutions à l'eau-rose?" ("Do you think, then, that revolutions are made with rose water?") has won.