The Real Election for Constitutional Convention

[Apocalypse]

Previous the more recent polls had gotten 42-49 votes each, including the government switch.

[OPD]

I'm getting flash backs to the CP election.

In my experience pretty much everything will be decided on the last day of voting.

[jdd2007]

Originally posted by Apocalypse
You make it sound like you don't like me, jdd2007.

no, i was just getting into the spirit of the race.

[jdd2007]

IDEA: why should one good candidate be eliminated from the convention. if five good people are willing to work on it, then we should allow them to. plus, with 5 people, if one drops out for whatever reason, we will have the number of people we originally wanted. what do you think?

[adaMada]

Originally posted by jdd2007
IDEA: why should one good candidate be eliminated from the convention. if five good people are willing to work on it, then we should allow them to. plus, with 5 people, if one drops out for whatever reason, we will have the number of people we originally wanted. what do you think?

I don't have a problem with that; it'd solve the problem of 'someone having to loose'. Having said that, I think the original intention was to have an even number of people so that there'd have to be a clear consensus and not a tie. If we're willing to give that up, then we can do five people. I think the advantages would outweigh the disadvantages...

Having said that, notyoueither went though a lot of trouble to set up a system and get this rolling... if he wants to keep it the way it is, or if people feel that it would take another seven day long vote to change the way we're doing it (which would be a legit point) then things may become more difficult, and we may have to respect the fact that the four person system has been approved by the people, even if it means that we won't be able to take full advantage of the five people we have.

-- adaMada

[Apocalypse]

I don't mind losing, I'd just like to know why.

This won't be a blow to my ego or anything. I've gotten a lot of props in the past few days for nailing Sid Meier's X-COM.

[Thud]

Yeah, why are we voting for 5 people? Five is fine for a commitee. It's not like we're cirumventing democracy, we did nominate these guys.

[Aro]

Originally posted by jdd2007
IDEA: why should one good candidate be eliminated from the convention. if five good people are willing to work on it, then we should allow them to. plus, with 5 people, if one drops out for whatever reason, we will have the number of people we originally wanted. what do you think?

Originally posted by Thud
Yeah, why are we voting for 5 people? Five is fine for a commitee. It's not like we're cirumventing democracy, we did nominate these guys.

It's the right answer. Why not?

[notyoueither]

We are selecting 4 to be more sure that the result coming back to us will be met with a large majority acceptance. 3 of the 4 must agree that they are done, the result is acceptable and it should be presented to all the citizens in a larger Convention (so to speak).

That being said, I would have no problem with all 5 being involved in the discussion and contributing to the final product. 5 would not be too many. There is no prohibition in the Enabling Act against the Committee involving others as they see fit.

The Committee would then be done when 3 of the 4 top vote getters decide they are done (4 out of 5 wouldn't hurt either).

Short answer, I would accept any of these nominees to be involved in the discussion no matter how many votes they get.

[OPD]

Yeah just make it five. IMHO the election is too close to suggest there is anyone not up to the job.

Also why the hell is my bar pink what are you trying to say about me?

[GodKing]

Not pink. Maroon. It is called Maroon. (did I spell that right?)

Ok, maybe shartouse (ok, I now I didn't spell that one correct).

But NOT PINK. Only the french are pink, and you are not french. Therefore, it is not pink. Got it. Good.

[GhengisFarb™]

Originally posted by OPD
Yeah just make it five. IMHO the election is too close to suggest there is anyone not up to the job.

Also why the hell is my bar pink what are you trying to say about me?

Definitely pink, why? Maybe they feel Mingapulco is such a cushy assignment that you would have to be going a little ..... you know ...... the rumors about Alexander .......

[adaMada]

** ok, this is a badly hidden :bump:...

-- adaMada

[notyoueither]

I think that involvement will range further than people expect at this point.

I am sure there will be discussions and unofficial polls to gauge public reaction to various ideas before the thing is done.

5 is good. However, the enabling act still requires the top 4 vote getters to agree 3 or 4 out of 4 before the finished product can be presented to the people. That's the only major point.

The examination of the thing and the writting of the new is the biggest issue, and all 5 of the people nominated are worthy of the task, if I may say so myself.

[Panag]

hi ,

all of the above and some citizens , ....

have a nice day