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I have proposed a piece of legislation that if passed will extend the right to vote to all people of a UN member state if the meet the following criteria:

Must be over 18

Must not be mentally handicapped

Must not be an illegal alien living in a country without a Greencard, etc.

What does everyone think?

Must not be an illegal alien living in a country without a Greencard, etc.

You extending the right to vote to non-citizens? Lubria finds this contradictory with the basic definition of "citizen"

Voting Rights Act
A resolution to increase democratic freedoms.

Category: The Furtherment of Democracy
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Murphdawggia

Description: Article I: Everyone is to be granted the right to vote no matter their race, color, or gender. However, to obtain this right to vote, one must meet the following criteria:

1. To receive the right to vote, one must have reached the age of eighteen.
2. One must be of sound mind. While we recognize the right of mentally disabled people to equal representation, they often lack the adequate mental capacity to make sound decisions.
3. A foreign national living in a UN member nation may gain the right to vote in that nation. However, any foreigner living illegally in a nation shall be denied the right to vote until they gone through the appropriate civic channels to obtain legal immigrant status in the nation in which they live.
In a word, No.

Frisbeeterians citizen-employes have the right to vote as soon as they are capable of performing labor. Once they are no longer dependent on support from senior citizen-employees (such as parent-employees), they have every other legal right and duty as any other citizen-employee. We won't accept laws that disenfranchise some of our productive citizens. They have as much right to vote on pension-plan providers and cafeteria caterers as the next citizen-employee, regardless of age or status.

In other words, we don't need this.

This is another fine example of national-level decision-making that is presented on the international stage. It has no business here. Frisbeeteria withholds their approval, and encourages all Delegates to do likewise.

'allo, I've dragged out of a warm pub to come an' talk about some rubbish with a bunch of ponecy bloody suits cos that ponce Marat is off somewhere teaching people 'ow to cry. I'm Mr. Agreeable and I'm a senior citizen. Which means button yer lip when yer elders and betters are talkin', awight?

Let's 'ave a look...

What do you fink we're fick or summat? You fink we don't know 'ow to deal with voting? That we need some UN poncey suits to tell us who can vote? Listen mush: 1) we 'ave voting laws already. 2) What are you gonna do with this:


Everyone is to be granted the right to vote


Oh right, so singlehandedly gonna make all UN countries a democracy now? Yeah right mate, they'll tell us to naff off!

Now, I'm off to watch the horse races, awight?

This proposal does NOT disallow non-citizens from voting. I will not have the citizens of other nations coming to vote in elections intended for my nation's people.

Once again, a few of the other well-spoken delegates have beaten me to the punch. The "this-has-no-business-in-the-UN-you-not-forum-reading-want-to-change-the-world-to-look-like-your-nation-at-the-expense-of-national-sovereignty-in-direct-contravention-of-the-UN-charter" type person.

Sincerely yours,
Daniel M. Hillaker
Minister of Foreign Affairs

Ahhh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize that I'm not allowed to propose legislation that may try shape other countries to fit my worldview when it seems that every proposal brought up for a vote has attempted to do just that! Listen, if you don't like the proposal, stick your thumbs up yous a*ses, and, don't endorse it!

Listen, if you don't like the proposal, stick your thumbs up yous a*ses, and, don't endorse it!
... and following that cogent, logical, and extremely mature response, we'll be doing just that. Minus the thumbs part, of course.


Murphdawggia, that was your chance to stand up for something you beleived in and tell us why we were wrong. If you believe in what you wrote, why not defend it? And if you don't, why did you post it?

Listen, if you don't like the proposal, stick your thumbs up yous a*ses, and, don't endorse it!
... and following that cogent, logical, and extremely mature response, we'll be doing just that. Minus the thumbs part, of course.

Oh, sod! And that's the part I was looking forward to!

And thank you, love, for not endorsing ths piece of rubbish. Now be a dear and fetch me a drink, will you?

Toodles,
H

I'm not allowed to propose legislation that may try shape other countries to fit my worldview when it seems that every proposal brought up for a vote has attempted to do just that!

The Sophistan representative expresses his most sincere apologies. He wasn't aware that the fact that everyone else is doing it makes it right. We will subsequently remove all objections from game mechanics proposals and begin killing our own citizens. After all, everyone else is doing it . . . .

Sincerely yours,
Daniel M. Hillaker
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Undersecretary of Sarcasm