Council via Direct Democracy

[TinySlayer]

There has been a lot of talk about people wanting direct democracy. The purpose of this thread is to outline how we could implement this, and see if people are open to the idea.

Here is a rough outline of how this would work. The numbers I've outlined below are just suggestions, that could be removed or changed.

• One Citizen, One Vote
  • Everyone would get to vote on everything
  • This could be done through the website to allow people to vote when they can
  • Voting would be anonymous [Optional]
• Weekly Meetings
  • Chaired by a Speaker, who will manage the talk power and introduce topics (see below)
  • Citizens can submit motions to be discussed
    • Most of these would go to a backlog, the be added to the agendas in order of submission. Motions can be submitted with a worded law change, or an option for the speakers to elaborate the idea into a written law. [There will be a process of correcting peoples English here, but sticking to the original message]
      
    • Urgent Questions can be submitted, to cover votes about process and votes of no confidence. These will be discussed at the next meeting. [There will need to be a system to prevent spam]
  • An agenda is published 1 week prior, selected from the first 5 motions put forward
  • Citizens can submit written responses in advance to the website
    
  • Citizens can apply to speak on each motion, 10 will be randomly selected by the website
  • Citizens who have been selected to speak will be given talk power for 90 seconds
    • If the citizen who applied did not turn up, their turn will be given to someone else
    • Citizens may forfeit their time to allow other citizens to speak
  • Meetings are limited to 90 minutes
    • 75 for law questions 15 for urgent questions + process
  • Citizens can vote for an extra meeting if the backlog is too high.
• Voting
  
  • Once a discussion has been finished at, the vote is opened on the website
  • Votes are open for 7 days
  • Votes can be changed at any point up to closure
    
  • If the vote receives more than 50% votes, the vote will be passed.
    
  • Votes are submitted based on steam accounts
  • • [Attempts to create alt accounts to vote with will receive a server ban]
  • You need 3 days playtime to vote
  • You can't vote if you have a ban that expires in more than 1 months time
• Speakers are elected every 3 months
  • Speakers are elected via STV, the first candidate in the first round will be the Speaker
  • Speakers have no special power, they are simply there to ensure everyone gets a chance to have their say
    
  • There will be one Speaker
  • There will be two Deputy Speakers
  • If the main Speaker cannot attend a meeting, a deputy will run the meeting
    
  • The speaker at the session revokes their right to debate on the law
    
  • Speakers are allowed discuss matters of process at the meetings
  • Speakers can be removed through a vote of no confidence

The main problem with this solution is that if too many people turn up to a meeting, then not everyone will get a chance to speak, due to basic time constraints. This is a problem because the people that do speak may not represent the views of the entire community.

Alternatively, you could give everyone a chance to speak, but this may prevent all law suggestions from being processed.

TL;DR

• Everyone gets to vote on everything.
• Everyone gets to put forward law changes
• Everyone gets to give a written response on the website.
• Weekly meetings where a randomly selected group get to speak.

Obviously all of this is up for discussion, elaboration, and tweaking as a concept.

Please submit other suggestions for changes to the city council here.

 

[John Daymon]

I'd like it to be meetings such as now where as a citizen you vote for a party who you believe in and who stands up for what you want, they get to have a campaign regarding their program and what they want to achieve in Paralake. But obviously if the citizens then change their minds regarding this person they would obviously want someone else in charge thus you should have a re-election every 2 months?

 

[rat]

To be honest I don't trust the PERP community with democracy.

 

[Moon The Goon]

 

[money]

yes lets let people vote for free gun usage and decide for the best of plpd and the city they care veryyyyyyyy much about


seriously though this is shit just get another competent council