There has been a seconded motion to adopt the following amendment to the Elections Act. The debate topic can be found here.
INFORMATION
This is an amendment to constitutional legislation. According to the Legislative Procedure Act, this vote shall require a majority greater than 60% to pass. The voting period will be 5 days, thus concluding on Wednesday, August 14th.
2024-08-09T20:55:00Z→2024-08-14T20:55:00Z
IMPORTANT
Please vote by poll if possible. If you cannot vote by poll, post “Aye”, “Nay” or “Abstain” in this thread. Please do not vote both by poll and by post. Comments and discussions belong in the debate thread and should be posted there.
The text of the amendment(s) in question is as follows:
This vote on adopting the following amendment to the Elections Act required a 60% supermajority of votes in favour, excluding abstentions, to pass. The results are tabled as follows:
Caucus
Aye
Nay
Abstain
Percentage of Vote
The Cakeists
3
4
1
23.5%
The Ice Creamists
0
9
1
29.4%
The Pieists
1
0
1
5.9%
Independent
2
7
5
41.2%
Type
Tally
Percentage of Vote
Final Percentage
Ayes
6
17.6%
23.1%
Nays
20
58.8%
76.9%
Abstentions
8
23.5%
Total
34
87.2% of Legislators
Absent
5
12.8% of Legislators
In light of these results, the vote fails, having not reached the required supermajority.