[quote="michelmanen":3un6ig4e]Sorry Claude. This is a constitutional requirement - not my idea. Each faction must inform the SC 15 days before the start of an election that it has at least 3 members in good standing, and that they are willing and ready to be listed as candidates and be ready to serve if elected. Pick on someone else next time.
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The minimum faction size is equal to three. No later than 15 days prior to the opening of the polls, faction members will report to the SC Dean their willingness or unwillingness to serve in the RA.[/quote:3un6ig4e]
Just in case you're going to go all technical and argue that only one candidate actually has to declare, that is nonsense in the current system. Lets say a party with 3 members declares only one candidate. Given the party vote, that party can well win, as a party, 3 seats in the RA. The constitution gives the faction the right to appoint in the RA two further individuals, even if their name was not on the ballot. Leaving aside the apallinginly non-democratic nature of this system in which individuals don't even have to put their name on a ballot to end up in the RA, the result is clearly the same as if the Party had 3 declared candidates.
My proposal does nothing more than maintain the requirement that each party must have 3 members in good standing order willing and ready to serve if elected.[/quote:3un6ig4e]
Michel -- your position here is ridiculous.
The Constitution requires that a faction have three [i:3un6ig4e]voters[/i:3un6ig4e] not three candidates. What part of "willingness or [i:3un6ig4e]unwillingness[/i:3un6ig4e]" makes you think that all three members of a three voter party have to be willing?
You are trying to exclude small parties from our system -- favoring parties organized on the mass party model CARE favors. Frankly, many of us prefer small parties.
Oh -- and Michel -- your proposal is not a lightning rod because it comes from you. Your proposal is a lightning rod because it is a bad idea. The fact that your ideas tend to draw opposition has more to do with the lack of quality of your ideas than with your person.
Beathan
Let's keep things simple enough to be fair, substantive enough to be effective, and insightful enough to be good.
