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Show posts MenuQuote from: Munditenens Tresplet on October 23, 2023, 04:41:23 PMWhen will nominations open?
Quote from: Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB on October 16, 2023, 02:42:46 PM- Under the provisions of Organic Law Article VI Section 2, should a Seneschal not be appointed prior to the first day of the first Clark, a Ranked Choice Vote to select the Seneschal shall appear on the First Clark.
- As the database is not currently equipped for this purpose, voting for Seneschal shall occur in a thread on Wittenberg concurrently with the First Clark.
- Only MC's may vote for a Seneschal. Senators have no vote.
- As Organic Law is relatively thin on the provisions of ranked choice voting for a Seneschal, the Chancery hereby proposes the following rules for voting:
- Votes shall be weighted by the number of seats assigned to each MC.
- Each party represented in the Cosa shall nominate one candidate for Seneschal prior to the posting of voting on Wittenberg. This should be done even if a Seneschal is elected prior to voting to ensure enough time for the actual vote.
- On the voting thread, there should be NO discussion or comments other than ranked choices.
- MC's will rank the candidates for Seneschal by preference (i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.) MC's should rank all candidates to avoid their ballots becoming exhausted.
- Should an MC rank the same candidate more than once, only the first appearance of that candidate on their ballot shall be counted.
- Failing to vote in the Seneschal election by an MC shall not count as a missed Clark unless that MC also fails to vote on the Clark itself.
- If a Seneschal candidate wins an outright majority of first-preference votes (50 percent plus 1) he or she will be declared the winner.
- If no Seneschal candidate wins an outright majority of first-preference votes, the candidate with the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated.
- All first-preference votes for the failed candidate are eliminated. Second preference choices on these ballots are then elevated to first-preference.
- A new tally is conducted to determine whether any candidate has won an outright majority of the adjusted votes.
- The process is repeated until either a candidate wins a majority of votes cast or a tie exists.
- If there's a tie after preferences, then we revert to the result of the previous round (which, in the case of only 3 candidates, would be the plurality result, i.e. just whoever gets the most first preferences). Only if it's still a tie then should we go for a revote on the second Clark.
Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on October 20, 2023, 04:44:30 PMQuote from: Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB on October 20, 2023, 04:33:50 PMSorry, maybe I should have been reading more carefully... In a scenario where there's a tie and no tiebreaker, an equal division of a Cosa seat, Lexh.B.15 directs a coin flip. Maybe that should be included in the rules?Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on October 20, 2023, 04:25:40 PMI thought the rules meant that led to a flip of a coin, right?
There is no provision in the proposed rules for a flip of the coin in the event of a tie. I'm no expert in RCV, so I'm not even sure a coin-toss is an option.
Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on October 20, 2023, 04:29:55 PMYeah, that is pretty clear, I guess. I was reading this to assume that the vote of confidence was a vote of confidence in the Government, and so implicitly a new election has already been held about the legislature's confidence in the executive. But probably your interpretation is more direct, even if the results doesn't make much sense.
Okay.
Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on October 20, 2023, 04:25:40 PMI thought the rules meant that led to a flip of a coin, right?
Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on October 20, 2023, 04:14:40 PMI see your point, but how could a RCV vote fail? Won't there be some sort of winner, no matter how votes are arranged?
Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on October 20, 2023, 04:14:40 PMI mean, it's a vote of confidence in a government that doesn't exist yet. Calling a new election in the manner in which you suggest seems like it should either happen as a result of an immediate failure of a VOC on the second Clark, or because there is a new election called by dissolution as people affirmatively decide that no government can come together.