Informal Discussion: RA Activity Rules

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Romanoffia

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To wit:

Law 28, Article III

3. Assembly members who have missed two consecutive votes on any Regional Assembly items shall be removed from membership automatically by the Speaker, unless a notice of absence was submitted to the Speaker before two consecutive votes occur.

4. As used in this Section.

A. "Two consecutive votes" are defined as two votes on any items that are conducted at different time intervals of at least 3 days between the start of each vote, but are voted one after another. Votes on two or more items at the same time are not defined as two consecutive votes.
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OK, I have a solution to this problem and the waiting period for RA membership in one quick solution.

Before any particular vote is held for a particular bill, etc., before the RA, the speaker calls a 'role call' of attending members that lasts for a given period of time (to be determined later by practical considerations).

Once the role call has been made, only those RA members who tally up in the role call can vote on that particular bill.

This would also serve to determine if quorum has been met before the voting actually occurs (those who do not vote, are counted towards the quorum, but as non-votes during the voting period).

Then you hold the actual voting, the quorum determined ahead of time by the roll call.

No nation admitted to the RA during a roll call for a particular item can vote on that particular item.

This makes it easier to mask RA members as they apply, but excludes them from simply applying to the RA for a particular vote and thus preventing RA 'flooding', but gets them involved quicker.

This would make it easier all they way around, on the Mods and on the Speaker of the RA.

It streamlines the process and saves aggravation on the masking issue.

Any thoughts on this?
 
So essentially you are proposing that each time we needs to have a vote on anything, we have to do a roll-call first?

Why don't we just said that RA can admit members during vote, but they can't vote on the bill that start on voting before they join the assembly.
 
What Fel said. It's the route I went with my overhaul proposal and by far the most sensible one I can think of.
 
Felasia:
So essentially you are proposing that each time we needs to have a vote on anything, we have to do a roll-call first?

Why don't we just said that RA can admit members during vote, but they can't vote on the bill that start on voting before they join the assembly.
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Actually, that would indeed simplify and streamline things. I see your point. It wouldn't matter for simple legislative voting. Good idea.

But your point brings up an interesting point that I had never thought of - how about only restricting the admission of new RA members during governmental elections (to prevent RA 'flooding')?
 
Yep, I think we can safely said that the idea should be that the Speaker are allow to accept nations to the RA during votes or election, but these nations wouldn't be allow to participate in votes or election that begin before they join the Assembly.
 
Gulliver:
Why not just disallow people from voting in elections that began before they were admitted?
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Exactly. It solves a number of 'maintenance' issues with masking and it gets new RA members in on the festivities.
 
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