- reduce number of electors and delegates to 4 each
- the fifth seat of of the elect is occupied by the Councils; this seat has 20% of the elect vote and votes with the majority of Councils which came to consensus on the issue. Since a Council vote takes time, it need not be taken unless the Council vote would be decisive.
- the fifth seat of the delegates is occupied by a person chosen by sortition out of all successful (see below) councils (at all levels), except that major officials (elects, delegates, the PM, chairs, judges) are excluded. This seat has 20% of the Delegate vote. It is reassigned every 1/4 of the electoral cycle.
- there are now only four 'party lineages' to use to assign people to Councils
- the fifth seat of each Council is assigned to a person in a 'none of the above' lineage, that is, someone who either is not a member of a Delegation, or whose Delegate did not join a lineage which led to a seat in the Delegate house
- defn of successful Council: a successful Council is one whose "consensus count" is greater than the median consensus count over some time period, and for which it is NOT the case that the council's voting record was 'similar to any single member of the elect house or the delegate house' as defined below
- a Council's voting record is deemed for these purposes similar to a person's voting record iff it matches 50% or more of the decisive, non-symbolic, non-appointive, substantive, votes of that person. A vote is decisive if the outcome of the motion would have been different if the member had voted the other way. A vote is substantive if it is on a main motion and if the topic is 'not meta', that is, not about procedural issues, as determined by the Chairs. A vote is non-symbolic if the topic is deemed such by the Chairs; examples of symbolic topics would be naming a bridge, awarding an honor or title to someone (even if accompanied by a substantial financial award), declaring a holiday (appropriating a token amount of money or making a token rule for the purpose of evading the symbolicness is not permitted and the Chair should declare such things symbolic regardless, using their judgement as to the threshold of 'token'). A vote is appointive if it involves a particular person.
- The Councils don't vote on appointive votes.
- all candidates for the elect house and all delegate candidates must come from a council which was successful during their tenure there, and which in addition had a modified consensus count of at least three during that time. a candidate who recently switched Councils is given a period of leeway, but only for three consecutive switches. Note that the 'during their tenure their' means that the successfulness of a Council for this purpose is different from the successfulness criterion for the purpose of the sortition, which is taken over a std time interval (one year). After a candidate is initially elected to a House, they can be re-elected without having served on a successful Council further. If they subsequently lose their spot and want to win it back, the successful council requirement applies anew.
- strict consensus is now needed in Council (since there are only 5 people in it). note that council members can abstain.
- a consensus count is the number of times which the council reached consensus
- elect members and delegates must vote the same way in council that they vote in the elect or delegate house
- both elect members and delegate members vote on main motions with their strength, that is, for the elect, their score, and for the delegates, their strength as defined elsewhere; with the proviso that the strength of each member is capped at 2x the strength of the weakest member.
Except for the strength change, the other changes are intended both to reduce the number of people who must negotiate on measures (now only 9: four elect members, four delegates, and one sortition-chosen), while also increasing the ability of the council system to fight party-ideological-alignment stasis (both by the requirement that Council success involve not matching any individual rep, and by the sortition, and by the requirement that every rep's continued elgibility is dependent upon their Council's success).
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