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Council Vote Restructuring - An Initial Approach

userrrtti-5220
5 years ago

The goal of restructuring the voting mechanism in Council aims to increase the Council members' participation in all motions submitted to the collective.

The idea resumes in having 20 people selected to fill 14 council seats, and per motion / period, a random set of 14 of the 20 are picked to act as council members for that time. This will bring diversity to the decision making process and allow potentially lesser represented voices to be heard - the non-selected ones can also vote on the motions, but the selected ones will be the ones "punished" if they don't cast their vote.

You can find the first initial approach here: please leave your comments and questions!

Comments (5)

5 years ago

I am in full support of this, a pruning of inactive members is sorely needed plus this has the additional benefit of potentially encouraging people to keep an eye on democracy a bit more even without being prompted.

5 years ago

Feel a little over complicated. How about this:

  1. There are 10 motions in previous 3 election rounds
  2. Councilor A missed 7 motions voting which >= 2/3 * 10
  3. Councilor A can not be candidate for next 2 election rounds

Of course, numbers above are just examples. A abstain call can still be added.

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