Subject: Ackanomic Voting Digest V2 #127
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Ackanomic Voting Digest    Saturday, July 26 1997    Volume 02 : Number 127

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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 00:53:42 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P2240 accepted (Wall-To-Wall Carpeting)

Proposal 2240
Wall-To-Wall Carpeting
Alfvaen

Votes cast by active players:  15 / 19 = 78.947368%
Yes:  12    No:  4     Present:  1   ...Proposal accepted.

YES votes:
	Chaos
	two-star
	mr cwm
	Techno
	Alfvaen
	Rex Mundi
	Karma
	Guy Fawkes
	Vynd
	Mr. Lunatic Fringe
	Robert Sevin
	(None Yet) Unity vote

NO votes:
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	breadbox
	ThinMan

PRESENT votes:
	Malenkai

Active players who did not vote:
	You can call me Al
	CarsesraC
	fnord
	Antimatter

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 2240
Wall-To-Wall Carpeting
Alfvaen
Distributed at 00:05:23 on Friday, 18 July 1997

This is a Modest proposal.

{{ Amend the Blueprint for the Vending Machine as follows:

After the third paragraph, insert the following text(delimited by SELMA):

SELMA

If a Vending Machine is possessed by the owner of the Great Trombone of
Ackanomia, e may vend therefrom Walls of Trombones.  The price for which
A Wall of Trombones can be sold starts at A$10.

If a Vending Machine is owned by the possessor of the Little Lamb, e
may vend therefrom Santa's Beards.  The price for which a Santa's Beard
may be sold starts at A$8.

SELMA

[And while I'm here...]

In the last paragraph, replace the text "any non-broken Vending Machine"
with "any owned non-broken Vending Machine".  [This is intended to exclude
Vending Machines that are buried, in the Museum, or donated to the
Treasury.]

}}

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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 20:38:08 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P2242 accepted (We'll Let You Off With A Warning This Time)

Proposal 2242
We'll Let You Off With A Warning This Time
Alfvaen

Votes cast by active players:  14 / 19 = 73.684211%
Yes:  10    No:  6     Present:  0   ...Proposal accepted.

Malenkai bribed Tammany A$ 5 to vote NO.

YES votes:
	Chaos
	mr cwm
	Techno
	Alfvaen
	Rex Mundi
	breadbox
	Karma
	Mr. Lunatic Fringe
	Robert Sevin
	(None Yet) Unity vote

NO votes:
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Tammany
	Guy Fawkes
	Vynd
	Malenkai

PRESENT votes:

Active players who did not vote:
	You can call me Al
	two-star
	CarsesraC
	fnord
	ThinMan
	Antimatter

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 2242
We'll Let You Off With A Warning This Time
Alfvaen
Distributed at 11:16:13 on Friday, 18 July 1997

This is a Modest propposal

Amend Rule 925, "The Press", as follows:

Replace the paragraph(delimited by SIBELIUS)

SIBELIUS

A newspaper must publish at least one article during each calendar
month, or it will cease to exist.  When this happens, the newspaper is
said to have gone belly-up.

SIBELIUS

with the following(delimited by DELIUS)

DELIUS

If a newspaper fails to publish at least one article during a calendar
month, but the owner publicly expresses a wish during the subsequent
month to keep the paper alive, e must pay a fee of A$15 to the
Treasury.  If it fails to publish at least one article in two
consecutive calendar months, or the owner does not keep it alive by the
above means after one month of inactivity, it will cease to exist.
When this happens, the newspaper is said to have gone belly-up.

DELIUS

{{ Any newspaper which went belly-up as the result of not having
published any articles in June, and whose owner expresses or has
expressed a wish to keep the paper alive during the month of July, is
hereby recreated in the possession of its former owner, who is
administered a fee of A$15. }}

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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 20:38:08 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P2241 accepted (Senate Resolutions)

Proposal 2241
Senate Resolutions
ThinMan

Votes cast by active players:  18 / 19 = 94.736842%
Yes:  15    No:  3     Present:  3   ...Proposal accepted.

ThinMan bribed Tammany A$ 37 to vote YES.
Malenkai bribed Tammany A$ 12 to vote YES.
/dev/joe bribed Tammany A$ 17 to vote YES.

YES votes:
	Chaos
	/dev/joe's Bonus Vote
	ThinMan's Bonus Vote
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Malenkai's Bonus Vote
	mr cwm
	ThinMan
	Tammany
	Techno
	Malenkai
	Mr. Lunatic Fringe
	Robert Sevin
	Vulcan Unity vote
	(None Yet) Unity vote

NO votes:
	Guy Fawkes
	Rex Mundi
	breadbox

PRESENT votes:
	Alfvaen
	Karma
	Vynd

Active players who did not vote:
	You can call me Al
	two-star
	CarsesraC
	fnord
	Antimatter

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 2241
Senate Resolutions
ThinMan
Distributed at 09:34:04 on Friday, 18 July 1997

{{ [ This proposal empowers the Senate to make relatively quick, minor
changes to the rule set in case we encounter an extraordinary situation
in which the normal voting process is hung up or too slow.  The use of
this privilege exacts a price, however.  To further balance things and
spread the power around, I have decided to follow Niccolo's lead and
propose term limits for Senators as part of the package as well.  The
specifics of the Senator term limits is negotiable, but for now I just
set them equal to the presidential term.
] }}

A new rule entitled "Senate Resolutions" shall be created and numbered 
411.1, with the following, double-ampersand-delimited text:

&&
The President, the Speaker, the Supreme Court Justices, and the
Senators may each introduce a Senate Resolution at most once per
calendar month by publicly posting its text.  The officer introducing
the resolution shall then post a presumptuous, ostentatious speech,
at least as long as the text of the resolution, explaining why the
resolution should be accepted.

If the text of the resolution is longer than 20 80-character lines,
or if it is not prefaced in the same document with a statement to the
effect that the following text is a Senate Resolution and a provisional
title, then the Officer who introduced it is considered an Incompetent
Political Buffoon for the following three days.  Otherwise, a vote is
initiated in the Senate on the question of whether or not to accept the
Resolution; the voting period shall be three days for this.

If the Senate votes in favor of accepting a resolution then immediately
after the results of the vote are publicly announced (as described in
rule 1001), that resolution's text is added to the ruleset as a new
rule with its initial title the specified provisional title, and an
initial number equal to the first integer greater than 5000 which is
not already a rule number.  The player who initiated the resolution is
then permitted to cheer, strut, and make victory gestures.  The CSRR
Officer is permitted and encouraged to assign such a rule a new number
once within the first 7 days of its existence (in order to place it
in the correct section of the rules); the Harfmeister is permitted to
once rename such a new rule to any legal name during the first seven
days of its existence.

If the Senate votes against accepting the resolution then the player
who introduced it loses 10 points and is encouraged to moan, gripe,
and complain about their choice of either "tree-hugging,
big-government, hippie liberals" or "gun-toting, poor-hating,
draconian conservatives."

Regardless of the outcome of the vote, each Senator who votes in favor
of accepting a resolution is removed from his Senator seat at the same
time that the complete, final voting results on that resolution are 
publicly announced.  Senators who are removed from their seats in this
way shall not be eligible to be re-elected as Senators for eight
weeks following the removal.
&&

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