Election Process Amendment
Sorry for the delay. Without further ado, here's what I propose be done.
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Congressional Amendment Proposal
Section 1. Article II, Section I, paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of the Constitution shall be struck.
A popular election by the many registered Citizens, voting in the several States, shall be the single determining factor for deciding any national elected office, of this primarily being the Presidency.
Section 2. Elections governing national office shall now be held on the second Saturday and Sunday in the month of November. Polling locations shall be open continuously from 0000 hours Saturday morning to 2359 hours Sunday night.
Section 3. No national election shall stand if it is found through comparison of the ballot count and the number of eligible voters according to the most recent Census that fewer than two-thirds of the eligible Citizens have cast their votes. No person, under penalty of law, shall inhibit a Citizen from casting his or her ballot.
Section 4. All Citizens shall be required to register to vote in State and Federal elections, and the several States shall agree to impose a fine and period of mandatory manual work on any person who fails to cast his or her vote upon the agreed-upon national election dates. The fines and penalties shall not exceed the amount of five-hundred dollars and fifty hours service for the first offense, seven-hundreds and one-hundred hours for the second, and one-thousand dollars and the same number of hours for the third offense, which shall be considered a felony, whereby the ability to vote is revoked.
Section 5. The several States shall agree to alter the ballots used in their elections in such a way as to provide a graphical representation of the candidate, summary biographical information and a short summary of the candidate's platform, provided by the candidate.
In addition, the several States shall agree also include two new choices for all elections, they being 'abstain,' whereby their vote shall not be counted as part of the whole, and 'none of these guys,' whereby the vote cast shall count as a separate entity, in competition with the actual candidates. Shall 'none of these guys' win an election, a new election shall take place the following Saturday and Sunday with those candidates that hold a three-fourths majority of the popular vote, selected by percentage attained. This process shall continue for as long as it should take for a given candidate achieve a simple majority of the popular vote.
Section 6. The candidates in any national election shall be obliged to the nation to draft a document summarizing such promises they may make to the Citizens prior to being elected, this document being signed by the candidate, the Speaker of the House, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and notarized.
Shall the candidate not win, the contract shall become null and void.
Shall the candidate be victorious, the elected candidate will then be held to such promises as he made during his or her campaign. Shall the elected candidate break any of these promises in the course of his elected duties, he shall be tried by the Supreme Court, and if they shall find that the breach of contract was avoidable or in bad faith, the elected candidate shall be stripped of his office, and serve out the remainder of his term plus the entire following term in a federal penitentiary. Shall the office the candidate held be without term limits, a mandatory twelve year sentence shall be imposed.
Section 7. No news, entertainment, internet, or other information purveyance organization shall report on the status of a national election before the polling locations nearest the International Date Line in the time zone GMT-12 have closed.
There. This will solve all of our problems.
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Congressional Amendment Proposal
Section 1. Article II, Section I, paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of the Constitution shall be struck.
A popular election by the many registered Citizens, voting in the several States, shall be the single determining factor for deciding any national elected office, of this primarily being the Presidency.
Section 2. Elections governing national office shall now be held on the second Saturday and Sunday in the month of November. Polling locations shall be open continuously from 0000 hours Saturday morning to 2359 hours Sunday night.
Section 3. No national election shall stand if it is found through comparison of the ballot count and the number of eligible voters according to the most recent Census that fewer than two-thirds of the eligible Citizens have cast their votes. No person, under penalty of law, shall inhibit a Citizen from casting his or her ballot.
Section 4. All Citizens shall be required to register to vote in State and Federal elections, and the several States shall agree to impose a fine and period of mandatory manual work on any person who fails to cast his or her vote upon the agreed-upon national election dates. The fines and penalties shall not exceed the amount of five-hundred dollars and fifty hours service for the first offense, seven-hundreds and one-hundred hours for the second, and one-thousand dollars and the same number of hours for the third offense, which shall be considered a felony, whereby the ability to vote is revoked.
Section 5. The several States shall agree to alter the ballots used in their elections in such a way as to provide a graphical representation of the candidate, summary biographical information and a short summary of the candidate's platform, provided by the candidate.
In addition, the several States shall agree also include two new choices for all elections, they being 'abstain,' whereby their vote shall not be counted as part of the whole, and 'none of these guys,' whereby the vote cast shall count as a separate entity, in competition with the actual candidates. Shall 'none of these guys' win an election, a new election shall take place the following Saturday and Sunday with those candidates that hold a three-fourths majority of the popular vote, selected by percentage attained. This process shall continue for as long as it should take for a given candidate achieve a simple majority of the popular vote.
Section 6. The candidates in any national election shall be obliged to the nation to draft a document summarizing such promises they may make to the Citizens prior to being elected, this document being signed by the candidate, the Speaker of the House, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and notarized.
Shall the candidate not win, the contract shall become null and void.
Shall the candidate be victorious, the elected candidate will then be held to such promises as he made during his or her campaign. Shall the elected candidate break any of these promises in the course of his elected duties, he shall be tried by the Supreme Court, and if they shall find that the breach of contract was avoidable or in bad faith, the elected candidate shall be stripped of his office, and serve out the remainder of his term plus the entire following term in a federal penitentiary. Shall the office the candidate held be without term limits, a mandatory twelve year sentence shall be imposed.
Section 7. No news, entertainment, internet, or other information purveyance organization shall report on the status of a national election before the polling locations nearest the International Date Line in the time zone GMT-12 have closed.
There. This will solve all of our problems.
posted by J. E Jansen at 17.8.04
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