Hulldom wrote:Call me bitter as well. There were initially going to be stronger provisions, or at least in my opinion less confusing ones, regarding the OEA's ability to act, but I was informed that there was quite strong opposition to any stronger mandates so here we are.
The repeal you passed was based entirely on the original not having those stronger mandates, though. At this point, you could just resubmit GAR#130, which I would completely allow you to do without considering it plagiarism.
Otherwise, I think this replacement needs to actually address the reasons why the General Assembly voted for the repeal.
- Require election-holding nations to have an independent body to conduct elections
- Somehow ban electoral systems with a "disproportionate advantage" for ... parties, I guess? The repeal was not clear what disproportionality needed to be addressed, or why banning specific parliamentary systems is within the purview of the World Assembly at all. I would encourage some research on Arrow's impossibility theorem here and revisit whether or not this is a desirable goal to try legislating.
- Grant the OEA complete authority to design electoral systems for new and transitioning democracies, since the repeal stated the non-binding nature of this assistance defeated the entire purpose. (Though, again, I think some research into peacemaking theory would be useful here.)
- Resolve the election monitoring contradiction you stated exists in the original. As of now, your replacement is just as voluntary, but then makes election monitoring
even weaker than the original.
- Add in "investigatory powers" to the OEA election monitoring role.
- Make the OEA's ballot counts binding.
This proposed replacement manages to be significantly
weaker than GAR#130, while only being possible because you repealed the original using arguments that it was too weak. Ethically, that's pretty damn bad and makes me question if you sought repeal just to have something credited to you. If you'd like assistance writing a replacement that actually addresses the concerns you used to convince the rest of the WA to repeal the original, I'll extend my hand in that. The biggest issue I see with this replacement is that your main focus is on the particulars of a secret ballot and (now-removed) electoral district design. While the original resolution was about building democratic electoral institutions in new and transitioning democracies (usually post-conflict), which is genuinely the purview of an inter-governmental organization.