NationStates Jolt Archive

Election Languages Act
A resolution to increase democratic freedoms.

Category: The Furtherment of Democracy
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: United Morgan

Description: This Resolution shall apply to all UN members regardless of whether or not they have an official language or languages.
The United Nations recognises that during elections some citizens are unable to vote because they don't understand the native language.
It is the responsibility of national governments to overcome this in the name of democratic freedom.
It is therefor requested that any citizen who is not fluent in the native language be allowed to bring a translator as designated by the citizen to the voting area to aid them in exercising their right to vote. The designated translator may not be affiliated with a local candidate.

Approvals: 1 (United Morgan)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 148 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Wed May 26 2004

I think something like this is long overdue.
United Morgan asks that all interested parties endorse or recommend endorsement of this Proposal.

I think something like this is long overdue.
United Morgan asks that all interested parties endorse or recommend endorsement of this Proposal.

We thank any nations that show an interest.

I, the ruler of the Rogue Nation of Kilroyith, support this decision fully. I like the idea, and it will make a lot more people vote. So, yeah.

I, the ruler of the Rogue Nation of Kilroyith, support this decision fully. I like the idea, and it will make a lot more people vote. So, yeah.

Thank you.
Any interested nations go to the United Nations, search for

Election Languages Act

and endorse it if you're able.
A worthwhile idea if we can muster enough support.

The Jingoistic States of Greenskinz would vehemently oppose this proposal, if we hadn't lost the regional delegate election rather spectacularly. At any rate, it is of our opinion that the citizenry's involvement in goverment should be as limited as possible. We believe that voting, politcal protests, and seeing which politician just murdered an intern is a useless waste of time which could be better spent shopping, or eating tasty critters. That is why we try to keep our election process to little more than a head-butting contest (literally, strong-heads make good leaders).

I believe that in order to vote, you should be able to speak the language of the person you're voting for, therefore, I believe that all government officials should be multilingual.
That's just my opinion though.
The other solution would be to disallow anyone that does not speak the official language of the nation altogether.

@distinguish representativ of United Morgan,

although our nations have huge ideological differences (we are strongly opposing socialism and communism) we welcome your proposal regarding the recognition of linguistic diversity. We especially welcome paragraph 3 of the resolution.

"3. An interpreting service to be provided for United Nations correspondence with member nations in their native language/s. The United Nations and the nation requiring the service will jointly fund this."

As a nation which native tongue isn´t English we would strongly welcome this. It would be an opportunity for more nations to participate at the UN, also for those nations whose leaders don´t speak much English and are therefore unable to participate at the UN or can´t participate on the discussions as much as they would like.

Sincerely yours

Marc Smith, president of Kybernetia, UN-delegate of the free-market region Futura

There isn't much time to get support for Election Languages Act. Hopefully as it moves a little closer to the front page it'll be noticed more and people will give it some support.
We remain hopeful.

Election Languages Act
A resolution to increase democratic freedoms.

Category: The Furtherment of Democracy
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: United Morgan

Description: This Resolution shall apply to all UN members regardless of whether or not they have an official language or languages.
The United Nations recognises that during elections some citizens are unable to vote because they don't understand the native language.
It is the responsibility of national governments to overcome this in the name of democratic freedom.
It is therefor requested that any citizen who is not fluent in the native language be allowed to bring a translator as designated by the citizen to the voting area to aid them in exercising their right to vote. The designated translator may not be affiliated with a local candidate.

Voting Ends: Wed May 26 2004

Democratic freedom is essential. So is the right to exercise it.
United Morgan feels strongly about this Proposal.

Nice idea, but your priorities are wrong. Isn't it better to mandate democracy before dealing with the details of how elections are carried out?

Mandating democracy is self-defeating. If it's mandated then it really isn't democracy.
This resolution strives to give citizens who already have the right to vote the ability to exercise that right where they may not have been able to before.

Mandating democracy is self-defeating. If it's mandated then it really isn't democracy.
This resolution strives to give citizens who already have the right to vote the ability to exercise that right where they may not have been able to before.

This is a good point.
I support this proposal.