54RZ17 - Abolition of Compulsory Voting and Determination of Legal or Actual Decease Bill

BE IT ENACTED by the King, Cosa and Senäts in Ziu assembled that:

1. Organic Law X.5, which currently reads:

Any citizen who neither votes in any general election nor responds to any national census established by law for a period of two years, as calculated at any Election Deadline, shall be deemed to have renounced his citizenship.

is amended to read:
In the absence of voluntary renunciation, Talossan citizenship is only lost upon the legal or physical decease of the citizen, confirmed to the satisfaction of the Chancery; or upon banishment by decision of the Uppermost Cort. A verdict of banishment or a finding of legal decease may be set aside and citizenship restored according to law.

2. A new section shall be added to El Lexhatx D.8.5 (on the electoral database) as follows:
8.5.8. Citizens who do not respond to a Census shall be removed from the Electoral Database.
8.5.9. Any citizen who has been removed from this Database for any reason shall be restored to the Database at their own request.

3. A new section shall be added to El Lexhatx D.8.8 (on the contact information database) as follows:
8.8.6. Citizens who do not respond to a Census shall be removed from the Contact Information database.
8.8.7. Any citizen who has been removed from the Database for any reason shall be restored to the Database at their own request.

4. A new section shall be added to El Lexhatx C.1.2.2. (on the census):

1.2.2.5 A citizen who does not respond to three successive censuses over a period of at least seven years shall be considered to be legally deceased, until such time as they respond to a Census.

Uréu q'estadra så,
Dame Miestră Schivă (MC-FreeDems)