Passage of Acting President Amendment Bill 2007

Section 5.102 is amended to read as follows:

5.102 An Acting President has the responsibilities, powers and functions of the President. An Acting President may not exercise the powers of any other office, but may, if a deputy, appoint a temporary substitute to serve in their place in the National Assembly.

5.102 An Acting President has the responsibilities, powers and functions of the President.

Naturalization of Ned Napangue

By majority consent.

Ned Napangue is naturalized as a citizen of Cyberia.

Confirmation of Temporary Justices

By unanimous consent.

Adam Graham and Jack Santucci

Passage of Tied Elections Bill (Amendment)

By unanimous consent.

New provisions:

700.082 PRESIDENTIAL MAJORITY If at any stage of a Demochoice count for
President script, there are only two remaining candidates who each have
the same number of votes, the Demochoice random determination must be
ignored and the EC must conduct a runoff election between the two
candidates on the next Saturday after the election. If both candidates
receive the same number of votes at the runoff election, the Demochoice
random determination is to prevail.

Old Provisions:

700.082 PRESIDENTIAL MAJORITY If the Demochoice script returns a
presidential candidate who did not, at the last stage of the Demochoice
count, have more than half of the votes cast, then the EC is to conduct
a runoff election between the two leading candidates at the the last
stage of the count on the next Saturday following election day.

Passage of Fair Recall Bill (Amendments)

By unanimous consent.

> New Provision
> 2.8.2 A petition to recall either or both of the Assembly and the
> President must be signed by 25% percent of the the electors.
>
> Old Provision
> 2.8.2 A petition to recall a President must be signed by electors
> equal in number to 25% percent of the the electors.
>
> (2) S2.8 imposes a 6 week process involving an election to decide if
> the people wish a new election and then a new election. That needs
> streamlining. It would be better to merge the two elections by holding
> a provisional election which is to be disregarded if the recall is
> defeated by the people. Naturally, we would not want to adopt the
> California rule by which recalled officers cannot be candidates.
>
> New Provision
> 2.8.3 A referendum to determine whether to hold a special election
> must happen not less than 20 days nor more than 30 days after the date
> of certification that the petition has sufficient signatures.
>
> 2.8.4 A provisional election for either or both the Assembly and the
> President must be held at the same time as the recall election. If a
> majority of all the electors vote for recall, the candidates returned
> at the provisional election are elected.
>
> Old Provision
> 2.8.3 A referendum to determine whether to hold a special election
> must happen not less than 20 days nor more than 30 days after the date
> of certification that the petition has sufficient signatures.
>
> 2.8.4 If a majority of all the electors vote on the question is to
> recall, the special election must be held not less than 20 days nor
> more than 30 days after the date of certification that the recall has
> passed.

Confirmation of Electoral Commissioner

Alan Grieve confirmed as Electoral Commissioner by majority consent.

Confirmation of Cabinet appointments

Deputies,

The appointments are confirmed by unanimous consent.

[Note: the motion covered the appointments of Fors and Catchpole.]

Jack Santucci
Speaker

-----------------------------------------

> From: zanderson889
> Date: May 25, 2007 10:02 AM
> Subject: [cybersenate] Re: Temporary Appointments
> To: cybersenate@yahoogroups.com
>
> Deputies,
>
> My appologies. Here is my decision:
>
> Deputy President- Michael Fors
> Minister of Foreign Relations- Michael Fors
> Minister of State- David Catchpole
> Minister of the Interior- Ben Gray
> Minister of Defense- Ben Gray
>
> I hereby renew these temporary cabinet appointments
> from now until
> June 30th, or until such time as the National
> Assembly approves of
> making them permanent.
>
> Furthermore, I would like to state that Deputy
> President Fors will be
> acting on my behalf from Monday, May 28, 2007, until
> Thursday, June
> 14, 2007.
>
> and...
>
> I hereby extend the temporary appointment of Alan
> Greive as Electoral
> Commissioner to June 30th, 2007.
>
> Thank you,
> Zachary Anderson,
> President