Resolution: Declaration Of Election Day As A Legal Holiday

[N0RTHLAND]

Declaration Of Election Day As A Legal Holiday
A resolution to increase democratic freedoms.

Category: Furtherment of Democracy

Strength: Significant

Proposed by: N0RTHLAND

The World Assembly,

Recognizing the highest significance of election as an exercise of our democracy.

Welcoming the intention to protect the right to vote especially for the working class; in order for them to have the chance to perform their civic duty without a cut in their salary.

Believing that it is the duty of the World Assembly to ensure the performance of every citizen's civic duty to vote.

Encouraging the members of the World Assembly to establish an international framework that allows equal opportunity for all citizens to vote, encompassing all classes

The World Assembly Hereby:
1.) Mandates member states to declare Election day as a legal holiday.

2) Requires companies/ corporations/ institutions to provide just compensation for labor workers during legal holidays.

3) Prohibits No Work No Pay policy during election day and other legal holidays.

[Free Las Pinas]

This seems more like a national issue than a WA issue to me, but I may be wrong.

Edit: The below post would explain a lot.

[Attempted Socialism]

OOC: Hi, and welcome to the GA!

While you may have a decent idea, it sadly shows that you wrote and submitted it before it went through a drafting process. For instance, I find the strength (Significant) to be quite dubious, and your third clause is to me far more influential than merely making election day a holiday.
I would suggest you pull your resolution and draft it in here, and also take a peek at the rules: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=159348

[Tinfect]

Mandates member states to declare Election day as a legal holiday.

"You... do realize, that there are Member-States, such as the Imperium of Tinfect, - us, Ambassador, - that do not hold elections? How could we possibly comply with this?"

[Graintfjall]

OOC: Given there is no obligation that WA members even have elections I question the value of this.

[Willingdon and Jevington]

I like the idea, maybe make a law that governments or companies can’t impose more work or interfere with the ability of people to vote, a bit like what UMNO did in Malaysia for the last election, in which they put elections in the middle of the workweek which resulted in people not bothering to turn up. They still lost, but you get the idea

[Grays Harbor]

In my opinion this contradicts articles 1, 2, and 3 of resolution 2.

[Ardiveds]

OOC: On one hand, it does mandate on elections but on the other, it doesn't mandate anything about having elections, just that if there are elections, those days have to be holidays. It seems so like and unlike an ideology ban at the same time...

[Araraukar]

In my opinion this contradicts articles 1, 2, and 3 of resolution 2.

OOC: I don't think it does that any more than #130 or the other election-specific resolutions do, and given recent GenSec decisions, can't even fault its choice of category, but given only 1/3 clauses actually has something to do with elections, and even then as a fairly random sideswipe, the strength might be off.

I do wonder, though, as someone who worked as an elections official for 8 years in all public elections from municipal to EU-parliamentary (and yes you get paid, and yes it's taxable income, and yes it's voluntary work but it's still work you're paid for so you count as a worker when doing the job), how exactly is the proposal supposed to work in terms of elections officials? If they don't work (as "legal holiday" would tend to suggest? maybe? what does that wording mean?), then who's going to make sure that elections are 1. held, 2. fair, and 3. have the votes counted without fraud?

Alternatively, clause 2. trips over CoCR by giving "labor workers" (whatever they are - the only RL equivalent I can think of is UK's labour-party voters) more rights than other workers, without justifiying it so that it'd fit the compelling causes excuse in CoCR.

[Imperium Anglorum]

2, and 3 of resolution 2.

I'm shocked that a member of the Secretariat forgot about the "subject to the immunities recognized by international law" clause.

[Godular]

“Opposed. I find this resolution insulting.”

[Kandorith]

At a glance we would already oppose this and seemingly goes against multiple resolutions. Then there is this gem; Mandates member states to declare Election day as a legal holiday. No thank you, we shall declare our own national holidays.

[The New Nordic Union]

'Whatever is election day? Any day on which any election takes places? Including, I don't know, elections for class president in schools? Elections for board members in companies? Municipial elections? By-elections? Seems like there soon won't be any day which would not be a public hliday should this proposal become law.'