WHEREAS The Chancery currently uses the First-Past-The-Post method of voting to conduct Senate elections, and
WHEREAS First-Past-The-Post voting is responsible for a variety of electoral ills, such as producing winners who do not actually have majority support, and forcing voters to cast ballots strategically instead of supporting the candidate they actually prefer the most, and
WHEREAS We all know how First-Past-The-Post voting is working out for our giant friendly neighbor this election cycle, and
WHEREAS Ranked Choice Voting (aka Instant Runoff Voting or Alternative Voting) is far superior to First-Past-The-Post and eliminates all of the aforementioned ills, because it allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference, and
WHEREAS This video is an brilliant explanation of why Ranked Choice Voting is so good
THEREFORE Section 6 of Article IV, which currently reads;
Any Senatorial election conducted by the Chancery shall be conducted according to the provisions given in Section 6 of Article VII concerning election to the Cosa, and the candidate receiving a plurality of the vote shall be declared the winner. In case of a tie between two or more candidates, the executive officer of the province shall select one of those candidates to be the Senator.
is amended to read;
Any Senatorial election conducted by the Chancery shall be conducted according to the provisions given in Section 6 of Article VII concerning election to the Cosa, and utilize Ranked Choice Voting. In case of a tie between two or more candidates, the executive officer of the province shall select one of those candidates to be the Senator.
Noi urent q'estadra så,
Sir Ian Plätschisch (MC-MRPT)
Sir Lüc da Schir (Senator-BE)