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Alright.

As the 4 proposals brought up by Mathyland have been passed and sent to their respective places, it's time to bring this topic back up for debate.

I think there's been a consensus reached on how the process should be handled, but I want to hear what people have to say on this.  If anyone has a bill they'd like to propose, I highly encourage doing so.  But since this is one topic I do think needs to be addressed, now is the time to do so.

I do still believe that ultimately an open assembly is the best route we have to ensure a politically active populace, while maintaining the Overhusen as a sort of check on it (House of Lords in the 18th, 19th centuries style). The added bonus there would mean that elections wouldn't be a thing as much, and his whole problem could be avoided. Though I'm not sure the entirety of the citizenry is behind resuming that can of worms. I'd probably think a survey of the populace would be best before doing anything, to ensure it wouldn't be voted down after loads of work.

Now, let's be clear, right now we just need to clear up a hole in the election process before the next one. The future of the UH is for something else.

North is correct.  While I do agree that we may want to try reviving the Constitutional Convention sometime down the road, our main focus right now is clearing up any holes and discrepancies in our current system.

North is correct.  While I do agree that we may want to try reviving the Constitutional Convention sometime down the road, our main focus right now is clearing up any holes and discrepancies in our current system.

Indeed.  I was merely attempting to see if we might have the will this session to take that whole can of worms on again.  Just showing I was willing to if others were as well

Does anyone want to take up writing this bill? I would but I would not even know where to start.

Title
1. This bill shall be cited as The Underhusen Elections Clarification Act

Underhusen Elections
2. On the month preceding a regular election month, the call for nominations begins 5 days preceding the election at midnight EST. This closes on the last day of the month at 23:59 EST, and the election will continue until the 7th of the election month; however, the Monarch shall have the power to extend the nomination period, the election period, or both up to seven (7) days.

I wrote up this draft for a statutory law if we decide to go that route instead of a royal decree. I took the wording for the start of section 2 from @Doc, so thanks for that.

This also shows how simple writing up laws can be, and I hope it encourages others to do the same in the future so it's not just me writing all the laws we decide we want. This took 10 minutes, and that was only because I was having trouble making the wording sound right.

Ok, Im all for this. But perhaps we should put in a maximum extension of 7 days?

This closes on the last day of the month at 23:59 EST, and the election will continue until the 7th of the month

This is mainly just me being nitpicky on wording...but I feel like this may lead to potential confusion down the road if we're not specific on the second bolded being a completely new month.

I motion that we bring this to a vote.

@Pengu
@Mathyland
@BraveSirRobin
@Crushita

I second the motion