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How long should senate members terms be ?
3 months 3 (50%)
4 months 2 (33.3%)
6 months 1 (16.7%)
Other - please post if you select this 0 (0%)
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How long should a senate members term be ?
Topic Started: 1 Oct 2007, 22:10 (102 Views)
Rucket
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Lets discuss how long a senate members term should be.

THESE ARE FOR ELECTED SENATE MEMBERS - NOT APPOINTED ONES

Currently the choices are 3, 4 or 6 months.
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i say 4

its middle ground between 3 and 6

3 is kinda short and doesn't let the members feel like they have achieved anything

6 seems really long and new people will get tired of this

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I'm with him ^

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^lol.

I agree that 3 months is too short as well, 4 moths is an ok length, and 6 months is best.

However, I would look at it like this, how many elections do we want to hold, and how far away do we want them?

The more frequent the elections, the fewer people will vote because they feel like they can always vote, "next time"
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ok thats a good point

but....

if we make the elections too long then people will get impatient and may feel like they don't have a say in the gov't
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Ya, in the beginning of the region we had delegate elections every week!!! lol

I think four months is best... if it were six months new nations would get discouraged because there would be no way they could get an important job until HALF A YEAR after they joined... 4 months is good... and once we get 200 people another senate spot will be formed so elections will be a little less than every 4 months...
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Well we could always break it up and only have one seat up for election at a time, that way we would have more elections, thus allowing more people to participate, but then we also won't have a whole group of new members at one time. That way there will be some continuity.
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hmmmm

another good point

NEAS.. what do you think ?? i kinda like this idea but then we would have to have elections EVEN more often
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Ok, if it is clear with the current members of the senate we can finally ratify that Senator elections will take place every 4 months.

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With 4 AYE this vote will be considered passed.

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AYE

Wow, this is a very old debate, but you might be able to say we as a region wanted to give this careful thought and study.... :P
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lol... of course... :D

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I think this debate should be resubmitted, we should have it written in the more modern form of proposal reproposed and redone, just me though
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I agree, although maybe as an amendment to the existing legislation on elections
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Good idea^

you write... I'll vote... :D
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give me 5 min and it'll be reproposed.
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