Quote from: Dr. Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvă, Esq., O.SPM, SMM on September 21, 2020, 06:32:57 PM
It is with pleasure that as per El.Lex C.1.2.1, I hereby appoint as Royal Data Clerk @Martì-Páir Furxhéir.

The new Royal Data Clerk will take office immediately and will begin establishing accessible backups to two members of the Cort pü Inalt as required under law.

Signed under the seal of the Chancery, this 21st day of September, 2020.


Dr. Txec dal Nordselvă,
Secretary of State

@Martì-Páir Furxhéir

Belated congratulations on your appointment.

I am currently updating the CÉZEMBREAN ADMINISTRATION GUIDE and I request an official roster of the citizens of our Sovereign Province.

X. Pol Briga, Le Sénéchal de Cézembre

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As Le Sénéchal I call to order l'Etats de Cézembre the first session within the timeframe of the 55th National Cosa term beginning 1 December 2020.  Let all citizens avail themselves of discussion with the members l'Etats for the purposes of proposing legislation to benefit the entire Provinçu Soveran da Cézembre.

The following members are recognized based upon http://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=437.0 and based upon the most recent CÉZEMBREAN ADMINISTRATION GUIDE Version 52.1 of 22 October, 2018 (hereinafter the "CAG") found at https://www.dropbox.com/s/ionhjfgbd73mbnn/CezAdmGuide-52.1.pdf?dl=0 where the calculations by Glüc da Dhi S.H. determined that:

@Txosuè Éiric Rôibeardescù shall represent at total of six seats, including two seats independent of party and four seats of The League of Centre Conservatives (LCC)

@Ián Tamorán shall represent the four seats of the Free Democrats of Talossa (FD) party

I, @X. Pol Briga shall represent the four seats of the Balançeu/Balance (BAL) Party

@Ián S.G. Txaglh shall represent two seats independent of party (IND)

Two seats voted as LA CORAZIUN SîNGICîNDS shall remain vacant, as no person has made a claim to this party

Thus in effect there will be up to 16 active seats and a total of 4 vacant seats based upon the dictates of CAG Chapter II Article 9.  As per CAG Chapter II Article 10, the requirements to pass any conventional bill into law will thus require 9 of 16 votes, which is achieveable in some cases with the votes of the LCC plus either the FD or BAL for a total of 10, or a combination of the FD, BAL, and IND for a total of 10.  In order to alter the CAG, the requirement shall be 11 votes (as per CAG Chapter VIII - Article 21) and thus shall require the votes of the LCC and IND plus either the FD or BAL for a total of 12, or the LCC + FD + BAL for a total of 14.

Other citizens may suggest legislation, but each item brought before l'Etats shall require sponsorship by a seated member to read the proposal into the record for consideration.

As a first order of business I shall undertake to have a revised version of CAG with updates to Current holders of provincial offices (some of which may be vacant by inaction) and proposed revisions of various typographical errors on or before 10 December 2020 for consideration by the l'Etats under the requirements to alter the CAG and newly endorse Chapter IX Article 22 for the current time.  Other bills should be placed in this forum for consideration on or before 10 December 2020 for consideration and voting on or before 20 December 2020 (exceeding the 7 day minimum set in CAG Chapter II Article 10) with a subject line "l'Etats Session 1: NAME OF PROPOSAL" where NAME OF PROPOSAL is replaced by an appropriate title, and the body of the proposal is contained within the forum post, allowing for discussion.  On or before 10 December, all proposals that become sponsored by a seated member will be combined into a single subject "l'Etats VOTING THREAD SESSION 1", first considering amendments to the CAG, then other bills.

If anyone has issues with this proposed order of business please place comments in this thread, or if you are a seated member and agree to this order of business please affirm in this thread as well.

XPB

Quote from: Glüc da Dhi S.H. on November 22, 2020, 05:24:01 PM
The nomination phase has ended.

There is only one declared candidate. As the law does not provide an option to vote against a candidate, and there is a precedent for not going through the voting phase when only one candidate has declared, there will not be a voting phase.

I hereby certify that @xpb has been elected as Sénéchal of Cézembre.

Congratulations to Sir X. Pol!

Glüc, thank you for your service to our province by administration of this process.

Given the holiday time period for Thanksgiving this week it would make sense to call l'Etats to session beginning December 1st, 2020.  I am currently traveling but will begin circulating an agenda for the opening session over the next several days.

XPB

Glüc

Thank you for conducting the election.

I hereby announce my candidacy for the post of Sénéchal of Cézembre

X. Pol Briga

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Quote from: Glüc da Dhi S.H. on November 02, 2020, 03:27:04 PM
To be honest, I was kind of taking a break from Talossa. I offered to conduct the election way before I was appointed. Anyway, since I'm here now, if no-one is willing to take over from me, I'll start the election next weekend.

All Cezembreans appreciate your service, and it would be great if you could run the election.  I would offer to, but I intend to be a candidate so that won't be possible.

Quote from: xpb on October 30, 2020, 07:34:30 AM
regarding

3.1. At the conclusion of the election, each option is assigned all ballots which express it as first preference. The option with the fewest ballots assigned to it is eliminated. Each ballot cast for the eliminated option is reassigned to the next expressed preference on the ballot.

and

3.4. If any ballot assigned to an eliminated option does not express a next preference, the ballot is treated in the same way as an abstention.

I would suggest that the the option to vote to rank only one, or otherwise less than the total number of options be specifically noted in voting instructions.  This will allow those who wish to make a clear focused selection to do so, rather than being confused with the appearance of having to select an option that they do not support in any manner.

going more meta

It should become clear that the Ziu should first consider the question as to whether ranked choice voting should be considered as a procedure to modify Organic Law, and until such time as that is established, then this could just boil down to:
- the King of Talossa shall continue to have the political powers granted by the current Organic Law.
or
- Some other specifically noted option

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on October 27, 2020, 04:22:18 PM

2. The Secretary of State shall publish minimum standards for Senäts elections run by the Provinces. If the Chancery deems that these standards are not met in a certain Province at a particular election, the Chancery may request a Cort injunction allowing the Chancery to assume control of the Senäts election in that Province.

Based upon other items recently hoppered, the standards set by any particular S.O.S. might attempt to overturn provincial voting procedures, such as adding some type of ranked choice voting with instant runoff when the province prefers something else, such as a plurality, an official separate runoff for clear majority, or even a lottery among candidates.

The minimum standards should be something along the lines of that a quorum among citizens of the province taking part in a discussion of an election shall constitute an impetus towards such an election (should there not be a functioning local legislative body) but those S.O.S. standards should not further intrude on provincial autonomy which may include what the province defines as specific terms and procedures in the constitution or legal code of said province.

regarding

3.1. At the conclusion of the election, each option is assigned all ballots which express it as first preference. The option with the fewest ballots assigned to it is eliminated. Each ballot cast for the eliminated option is reassigned to the next expressed preference on the ballot.

and

3.4. If any ballot assigned to an eliminated option does not express a next preference, the ballot is treated in the same way as an abstention.

I would suggest that the the option to vote to rank only one, or otherwise less than the total number of options be specifically noted in voting instructions.  This will allow those who wish to make a clear focused selection to do so, rather than being confused with the appearance of having to select an option that they do not support in any manner.

Quote from: xpb on October 21, 2020, 10:42:01 PM
Lets have an election !

As per
Article 13. A Sénéchal shall be elected, by the citizens of Cezembre, in an election conducted by the Sénéchal or his appointed agent, in the event there is no incumbent Sénéchal or the Sénéchal is inactive for more than a week, the Governor-General or his appointed agent. All citizens of Cézembre have the right to vote and/or be a candidate in this election.

@Glüc da Dhi S.H.
I hereby register my candidacy for the position of Sénéchal of Cézembre

Lets have an election !

Quote from: xpb on October 10, 2020, 09:31:27 PM
Trial and error attempting to update http://wiki.talossa.com/L%27Etats_de_C%C3%A9zembre#Member_Chart but not sure if LCC = LIB?
Does anyone have the previous composition of l'Etats during Cosa 54?

Answering my own question at https://talossa.com/national-government/political-parties/ for LCC, will tweak further and assume since Txosuè Éiric Rôibeardescù has 2 seats and was assigned the 4 LCC seats that all of them are LCC

Quote from: Eðo Grischun on October 10, 2020, 03:18:43 PM
Bump

M-M and Cezembre, please?

I and others have been reaching out to various authorities since the time I was appointed Senator for the final Clark of the 54th Cosa.  Since the time of the election we have yet to be able to hold forth in l'Etats due to lack of a Seneschal.

Trial and error attempting to update http://wiki.talossa.com/L%27Etats_de_C%C3%A9zembre#Member_Chart but not sure if LCC = LIB?
Does anyone have the previous composition of l'Etats during Cosa 54?