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#1

59RZ20: Contrâ
59RZ21: Abstain
59RZ22: Për
59RZ23: Për
59RZ24: Për
#2
Please, can we do whatever you can to help move this forward?
#3
Can this be Clarked for the 5th Clark?
#4
I also abstain on Party President, I am not sure I know the candidate.

I vote per on the rest.
#5
WHEREAS 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.
#6
I believe in the importance of the Senate. I think it is the supreme chamber of the Ziu, whose role is to ensure the Cosa doesn't pass laws that aren't represented by ALL of the provinces.

Because of this belief, I cannot accept that we nominate a Mencei without ALL of the Senators seated.

If we do, we will need to do it AGAIN once all of them are seated, so I vote yes, postpone until official.
#7
Choice 1: Miestra's platform
Choice 2: Eðo Grischun
Choice 3: I would rather not put one, why? Because I think that no active participation would be a dire mistake.
#8
El Viestül/The Lobby / Re: National Census Due?
July 19, 2023, 05:39:40 PM
I am working like 70 hours per week until at least August 8th. It will have to wait until then.
#9
The ballots are currently being sent!

Sadly, there are UTF8 encoding issues, at least in mine.
#10
Just for confirmation, I just checked outgoing email reports, and nothing explains
#11
When the ballots were sent Sunday morning, all of the ballots to Gmail bounced back.

This was a new to me: the previous day, I had emailed gmail just the previous day from the same server.

In short, Gmail decided to block the IP of the server where the database is hosted, but it appears to be a whole block, so it might not even be just the server, it could be someone with similar IPs spamming Gmail.

The SoS and I made multiple attempts, nothing. And Gmail has no blocked email support, so all we can do is switch processor.

What we need, is a transactional email service. I used a few in my years, but here is the kicker: all of them cost money. And it's paid out of my pocket.

The cheapest, by far, is Amazon SeS, and it's the one I use daily.

So, I created an account, and tested it. It worked!

I requested on Sunday access to the production server. In short, to be able to actually send the emails.

It takes up to 24 hours and with the recent cuts, they do take their 24 hours!

So, I got a reply, and they said they needed me to validate which email actually sends the emails, not just the domain, because it's a new account. I never hear of that. So, I complied. But it starts a new 24 hours.

They replies this morning, at 4h00am, explaining that they reviewed the account and need to confirm it is a club, and not an actual secessionist movement. That Talossa was legal. I explained it was, and hopefully, within 24 hours, it will be active and the ballots will be sent.

If not, a solution is to pick a transactional email company, but they charge MONTHLY, only SES as far as I know, it mostly free.

Most of those which used to offer 5000 emails per month for free, now only offer 500 which isn't enough.

170 citizens, ballot confirmations, voting reminders... and after 500 it's often something liek $20 per month. I don't have $240 per month for a temporary gmail problem.

I don't mind paying for Ses, it might cost me something like $5 year long. It's nothing.

But not $240.

So, as soon as Amazon approves the account, ballots will be sent.

This was impossible to predict. My server has been running for years, and so far, wasn't blocked in Gmail.



#12
Just in case it's not fresh in memory:

EM Cosas allow multiple seats per Cosa members. 200 seats mean one seat per 0.5% of the vote.

RC is real Cosa: each member of the Cosa gets exactly 1 seat.

I also proposed DC which is Direct Cosa: 1 vote gives 1 seat, but with a minimum of votes to qualify, so the number of seats is variable from Cosa to Cosa.
#13
I am one of the main authors of the EM200 as it currently stands.

The reason for EM200 was the inability to fill all 20 of the RC20 seats.

Back then, a variable size Cosa was unthinkable.

But putting it into law instead of the organic law could allow us to try both EM and RC options, and various numbers.
#14
I vote for ESB for Mencei
#15
And for the record, my wife, daugther and I all have gmail accounts and we got our ballots fine.