Side note:

If you want an ID card in the next batch, you are almost out of time to apply.

The Civics Test I set up is here.  If you take the Civics Test, you will receive a link at the end directing you to the ID Card form.

Right now, I see six applications since the last time I issued cards.  When I get a chance, I will get started on the process.  I completely understand that people are eager, and it's great!  But please be patient.  I will keep everyone updated on the timeframe, but here's my current plan:

• Validate all tests.  I have to check to make sure everyone got the required score and that they're all current citizens.  This will take very little time, and I will do that tonight.
• Validate info.  I have to make sure that I have all required information.  Technically I could just reject applications that were not following directions, but I usually reach out in private to fix the application, instead.  Last time, a third of all applications needed fixing.
• Process the cards.  Most of this is automated, but the profile and signature images need to be done manually.  This usually only takes me five to ten minutes apiece.
• Printing.  This takes up to two weeks, although it might be less time since it's already been set once.
• Mailing.  Fairly variable, but I'm in the continental United States, so you can do your own reckoning

I'll be getting started tonight -- my apologies to anyone who had to wait.

If I still had a seat, I'd vote against it, too.  An incredibly important election process for a really important office where a single person exclusively is empowered to start it at any time within a six-month period, and then who also decides on the process for voter registration -- and who partially holds the power of that office for however long it takes to fill the office?  It's very strange, and has a lot of bad incentives that would tempt anyone.

And that's completely aside from the Txec stuff.  The text here is really unclear, but it seems as though maybe the Chancery is supposed to conduct the election and count the ballots?  I guess Txec would have to resign his office?

(Unless the chief justice is also supposed to count the votes, although that'd be way worse.)

I think the proposed process has significant flaws, even aside from the fact that it would probably end the monarchy in any real sense.

Think about other aspects of the logistics.  The candidate would be chosen during a meeting, implying an actual time-sensitive event.  How many of the eligible 88 voters (as of this moment) would show up to such an event?  It'd be hugely dependent on chance and the decisions of the chair.  And since the new office of president would be confirmed by a simple majority vote -- there would be little reason to suppose that the president would be a consensus candidate, despite the supermajoritarian nomination process.  There are like ten total people who have ever shown up to a live event of any kind, ever, and who would be eligible to vote in this process.

This is quite aside from the fact that we'd be discarding our oldest tradition, possibly irrevocably.

Seems good to me.

Quote from: mpf on February 07, 2024, 06:55:24 PMWHEREAS abuse of trust isn't only against minors, but can be against anyone under authority, such as a college student graded by a teacher, or an elderly person helped by an orderly, and
WHEREAS RZ8 is a good bill that just doesn't go far enough,

WHERE BE IT ENACTED by the King, Senäts and Cosă in Ziu assembled that section 7.3.1.1 in El Lexhatx A.7.3.1 which currently reads as:

7.3.1.1. "Sexual violence" shall include abuse of trust, where a Talossan citizen over the age of 18 initiates sexual conduct (physically or by means of words or images) with any person under the age of 18; and the citizen over 18 is in a position of supervision, authority or tutelage over said person under 18.

Be changed to:

7.3.1.1. "Sexual violence" shall include abuse of trust, where a Talossan citizen over the age of 18 initiates sexual conduct (physically or by means of words or images) with any person over which they area position of supervision, authority or tutelage, unless proper prior consent is given and that person is 18 of older.

Proposed by Marti-Pair Furxheir, Senator of Ataturk.

I have bolded where there's clearly a word missing.

I will note that this language is very broad, and you should check to be sure it means what you wish it to mean.

Also approved by me, although my excellent colleagues have seen it through already :)

If you look at the end of the form, there's a link right to the application.  It should be included in the email that was sent to you when you finished the test.  If you can't find it, please let me know.

Currently, there are only three applications. I have no plans to run a new batch until there are a bare minimum of five. As soon as that happens, I will make a public announcement.

This seems fine to me. It's a obvious conflict of interest. The only reason it still exists is a practical one: basically anyone interested in the law ends up doing double duty whenever possible.

I started doing the job of the Clerk because it was needed and no one else was around to really do it. I'm pretty proud of the new system that I put in place, transforming what was basically an unusable and incomplete set of opinions into a full records system. Still some improvements to be made and stuff to be entered, but I have left it better than I found it!

And of course I was the only member of the government who was really familiar with the law, which made me the obvious choice to be A-X.

I don't think I have acted corruptly in any way, but I'm incentivized to believe that! If it all possible, the two offices shouldn't be mingled.

I will resign whichever office the Seneschal chooses, either at his request or certainly should this bill pass.

Azul -- I hereby resign my seats in the Cosa, concurrent with my departure from the TNC.

Weird.  Well, please just PM it to me as a file attachment.  I apologize for the issue -- not sure what the problem might be.

The form appears to be working correctly, and a photo was successfully uploaded by a citizen two days ago.  Please ensure that your photo is in a commonly-accepted photo file format (JPEG, .PNG, .GIF, .BMP, .TIFF, .SVG) and smaller than 10 MB.  If you still have problems, please let me know.

I'll take a look and see what's up.

Quote from: Sir Lüc on February 19, 2024, 08:29:44 AMPersonally, the A-X should not only have the right to request an advisory opinion from the CpI -- if anything they should probably be the one Government official that's primarily in charge of those, just as the MinFin (and not the Seneschal) has been in charge of the Budget for a few years now. Besides, the Seneschal has the implicit right to also request an advisory opinion by D.2.1.

(Also, there's a typo in that section of the OrgLaw -- Seneschal)

Would the Seneschal have that power? If the OrgLaw says the A-X does, I don't think a statute could assign that power to someone else.

For my money, btw, either one makes sense - just not both.

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on February 19, 2024, 03:21:01 AM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on February 17, 2024, 02:17:30 PMThe link to the test is in the initial post.  It is automated, and doesn't require my permission.  If you get 75% or more, you may fill out the application for a card found at the end of the test.  Cards will be processed according to a strict "when I get a chance" basis (or ideally sooner, if the Seneschal has someone else do it).

I have already done the Civics test, but there were problems with the ID card application.

I'm sorry to hear that! Can you tell me what the problem was? Did it not work?