A Quarantine Extravaganza: The 2020 Annual Review

[Sierra Lyricalia]

Three days left to vote.

14 total ballots to date. I guess vote stuffing is more popular than, like, actually expressing an opinion. Hell, not even a "If you have a WA resolution badge I will offer you stamps/cards/bank to let me fill your ballot" post.

Color me mildly surprised.

[Free Las Pinas]

#2020_ga_ann_rev_1

(1) Access to Abortion
(2) Language and Education Rights for Deaf Individuals
(3) Repeal "Protecting Sites of Religious Significance"
(4) Repeal "Landfill Regulation Act"
(5) Prevention Of Forced Sterilisation
(6) Data Protection Accord
(7) Ensuring Effectual Recycling
(8) Public Access to Court Records
(9) Ethical Treatment of Animals in Research
(10) Ending School Segregation

#end

[Imperium Anglorum]

14 total ballots to date. I guess vote stuffing is more popular than, like, actually expressing an opinion. Hell, not even a "If you have a WA resolution badge I will offer you stamps/cards/bank to let me fill your ballot" post.

It seems the ancient tradition of General Assembly bribery has died. Sadness.

[Regnum Italiae]

(1) Death Penalty Ban
(2) Access to Abortion
(3) Tariffs and Trade Convention
(4) Data Protection Accord
(5) Public Access to Court Records
(6) Sovereign Justice Accord
(7) Ensuring Effectual Recycling
(8) Integrity in Law Enforcement
(9) Language and Education Rights for Deaf Individuals
(10) Prevention Of Forced Sterilisation

Death Penalty Ban wasn't passed in 2020.

Fixed

[Wallenburg]

#2020_ga_ann_rev_1

(1) Access to Abortion
(2) Protecting Legal Rights of Workers
(3) International Criminal Protocol
(4) Language and Education Rights for Deaf Individuals
(5) Provisional Rule in Wartime
(6) Repeal "World Assembly Trade Rights"
(7) Protected Working Leave
(8) Public Access to Court Records
(9) Repeal "Protecting Sites of Religious Significance"
(10) Ban on the Administration of Unwanted Substances

#end

Even with a careful selection process, I had to cut out a few resolutions I thought did a great job. Honorable mentions go to:

• Maowi et al. for Prevention Of Forced Sterilisation, a resolution with a simple yet important set of mandates,
• Separatist Peoples for International Bankruptcy Protocol, which embraced legal jargon and delved bravely into the weeds of bankruptcy law (at least, for a text-based browser minigame),
• Honeydewistania for Reducing Disease Vectors, which tactfully approached the communication of diseases with all the professional quality that the author has been shown to excel in,
• and Imperium Anglorum for Repeal "Supporting and Valuing the Humanities" and its exhaustive evisceration of its target, bumping up against the character limit.

[Imperium Anglorum]

Okayyyyyyyyy....... we have 16 or so responses. Ad omnes, extend the voting period or close?

[Maowi]

#2020_ga_ann_rev_1

(1) Provisional Rule in Wartime
(2) Language and Education Rights for Deaf Individuals
(3) Access to Abortion
(4) Ban on the Administration of Unwanted Substances
(5) Ensuring Effectual Recycling
(6) Reducing Disease Vectors
(7) Patient Travel Freedoms
(8) Integrity in Law Enforcement
(9) Repeal "Supporting and Valuing the Humanities"
(10) Land Reclamation Regulation

#end

Sorry for being late!!! I am doing this on mobile so I hope there aren't any typos in there ...

[Imperium Anglorum]

Given the above, I'll extend voting to 20 April.

[Scalizagasti]

#2020_ga_ann_rev_1

(1) Regulating Desalination
(2) Land Reclamation Regulation
(3) Access to Abortion
(4) Ensuring Effectual Recycling
(5) Repeal "Protecting Sites of Religious Significance"
(6) Language and Education Rights For Deaf Individuals
(7) Repeal "Promotion of Recycling"
(8) Integrity in Law Enforcement
(9) Repeal "Wartime Journalism Protection Act"
(10) Supporting and Valuing the Humanities

#end

[Imperium Anglorum]

Today is the last day of voting (well include a portion to tomorrow definitely). Get your ballots in!

[Imperium Anglorum]

These are your 10 top resolutions promoted to the next vote.

#	Title	Category	Sub-category	Score
499	Access to Abortion	Health	Healthcare	115
493	Language and Education Rights for Deaf Individuals	Education and Creativity	Cultural Heritage	65
486	Prevention Of Forced Sterilisation	Civil Rights	Mild	59
481	Data Protection Accord	Regulation	Consumer Protection	56
519	Provisional Rule in Wartime	International Security	Significant	48
506	Public Access to Court Records	Regulation	Legal Reform	41
508	Restrictions on Forced Eugenics	Civil Rights	Significant	41
531	Tariffs and Trade Convention	Free Trade	Strong	39
528	Repeal "Protecting Sites of Religious Significance"	Repeal	GA 522	37
504	Integrity in Law Enforcement	International Security	Mild	35

Resolutions receiving at least one vote can be found below in scoring order.

#	Title	Category	Sub-category	Score
499	Access to Abortion	Health	Healthcare	115
493	Language and Education Rights for Deaf Individuals	Education and Creativity	Cultural Heritage	65
486	Prevention Of Forced Sterilisation	Civil Rights	Mild	59
481	Data Protection Accord	Regulation	Consumer Protection	56
519	Provisional Rule in Wartime	International Security	Significant	48
506	Public Access to Court Records	Regulation	Legal Reform	41
508	Restrictions on Forced Eugenics	Civil Rights	Significant	41
531	Tariffs and Trade Convention	Free Trade	Strong	39
528	Repeal "Protecting Sites of Religious Significance"	Repeal	GA 522	37
504	Integrity in Law Enforcement	International Security	Mild	35
511	Ensuring Effectual Recycling	Environmental	All Businesses - Strong	31
529	Repeal "Rights of the employed"	Repeal	GA 491	31
500	International Criminal Protocol	Civil Rights	Strong	28
487	Ban on the Administration of Unwanted Substances	Regulation	Safety	27
515	International Bankruptcy Protocol	Regulation	Legal Reform	26
513	Sovereign Justice Accord	Regulation	Legal Reform	24
514	Ending School Segregation	Education and Creativity	Educational	23
525	Repeal "Landfill Regulation Act"	Repeal	GA 520	19
479	Repeal "Convention on Animal Testing"	Repeal	GA 477	18
497	Repeal "Military Identification Tag Act"	Repeal	GA 490	18
503	Protecting Legal Rights of Workers	Regulation	Labour Rights	17
512	Commercial Arbitration Recognition	Free Trade	Significant	16
489	Ethical Treatment of Animals in Research	Health	Bioethics	15
480	Wartime Healthcare Protections	Global Disarmament	Mild	15
517	Repeal "World Assembly Trade Rights"	Repeal	GA 209	12
524	Repeal "Supporting and Valuing the Humanities"	Repeal	GA 495	11
502	Repeal "Freedom to Seek Medical Care II"	Repeal	GA 456	10
496	Fair Arbitration Act	Regulation	Legal Reform	10
527	Protected Working Leave	Regulation	Labour Rights	10
518	Reducing Disease Vectors	Health	Research	10
526	Land Reclamation Regulation	Environmental	All Businesses - Mild	10
494	Regulating Desalination	Environmental	All Businesses - Mild	10
484	Disease Naming Compact	Health	Bioethics	10
492	Proper Hygiene For Medical Instruments	Health	Healthcare	9
485	Repeal "Disease Naming Compact"	Repeal	GA 484	9
521	Repeal "GMO International Trade Accord"	Repeal	GA 509	9
507	Repeal "Promotion of Recycling"	Repeal	GA 483	7
505	Repeal "Wartime Journalism Protection Act"	Repeal	GA 501	7
523	Patient Travel Freedoms	Health	Healthcare	4
488	Repeal "Ensuring Safe Syringe Use"	Repeal	GA 482	3
498	Ban on Forced Blood Sports	Moral Decency	Mild	2
482	Ensuring Safe Syringe Use	Health	Healthcare	1
495	Supporting and Valuing the Humanities	Education and Creativity	Educational	1
516	Repeal "Ban on Sterilisation of Minors etc"	Repeal	GA 472	1

I will leave for comment as to how you think we ought to do the next round (if one is necessary), please come with some suggestions, discussion is welcome! I hope that we can start the next round, if people think we ought to do a next round, in three days or so.

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New ballot instructions. This is literally the same as the last ballot, just with a single change to the ballot tag at the top. The tag is necessary to mark the ballot as being one submitted for this particular event. Submit your ballot like so:

#2020_ga_ann_rev_2

(1) ...
(2) ...
(3) ...
(4) ...
(5) ...
(6) ...
(7) ...
(8) ...
(9) ...
(10) ...

#end

You can omit entries at the end. Remember to spell in the way given by the resolution title. Eg, if it says "Sterilisation", the computer will complain if you wrote "SteriliZation".

[Boston Castle]

Maybe an elimination down to the top 3 or so with the next vote?

[Araraukar]

Thank you for the invite to do this, by the way, but I just haven't had two brain cells to put together on most days I've gotten to the computer, so decided to not partake this time to not skew your results.

As for round two, it's usually been WA nations only, hasn't it, and somewhere else on the site? To avoid any puppetry or something? Tired brain means vague memory. Sorry.

As a total aside, saw a couple of butterflies, a bumblebee, a white wagtail and a black-headed gull (both are migrating birds here), and some almost green lawn grass today, so yeay for spring advancing!

[Wallenburg]

I reckon there's a great deal of room for the order of these top 10 to change, with the other options eliminated. Perhaps A2A is the predictable favorite for the overall winner, but pretty much everything else is liable to change.

[Imperium Anglorum]

Maybe an elimination down to the top 3 or so with the next vote?

Given we're using a ranked voting system (see OP) we can have a larger field than just a few candidates. We could just select the winner by a Borda count of the promoted resolutions. A second vote would probably be desirable because a lot of votes were (basically) wasted in the selecting resolutions which were not promoted.

As for round two, it's usually been WA nations only, hasn't it, and somewhere else on the site? To avoid any puppetry or something? Tired brain means vague memory. Sorry.

It has, but even in the past, it was possible for people to rig a vote by recruiting other WA nations to vote in it. I discuss this briefly in the OP re the first round of voting and why I chose this specific manner of snout-counting. It could be possible just to hold the next vote in this thread, insofar as there is a unique identifying tag for the next series of votes.

[Imperium Anglorum]

Any objections to this plan:

• Borda count vote continues.
• Previously-selected 10 resolutions are those which are promoted.
• Voting until the end of the month.
• No wild card round.

[Imperium Anglorum]

I guess I'll take the silence as support. It's very Caesarian of me. Anyway, please fill in your vote ballots with the following tag (ending with 2 instead of 1) and provide a listing of all those you want to vote for.

#2020_ga_ann_rev_2

(1) Access to Abortion
(2) Provisional Rule in Wartime
(3) Tariffs and Trade Convention
(4) Public Access to Court Records
(5) Prevention of Forced Sterilisation
(6) Restrictions on Forced Eugenics

#end

The same sort of format rules apply re the last vote.

EDIT. Re query from Banana via Discord. You do not need to express all preferences. You could, for example, file a bullet ballot where you vote for only one resolution in the top slot.

[Scalizagasti]

#2020_ga_ann_rev_2

(1) Repeal "Protecting Sites of Religious Significance"
(2) Access to Abortion
(3) Language and Education Rights For Deaf Individuals
(4) Integrity in Law Enforcement
(5) Public Access to Court Records

#end

[Honeydewistania]

#2020_ga_ann_rev_2

(1) Repeal "Protecting Sites of Religious Significance"
(2) Access to Abortion

#end

[Bananaistan]

#2020_ga_ann_rev_2

(1) Repeal "Protecting Sites of Religious Significance"

#end

[Wallenburg]

#2020_ga_ann_rev_2

(1) Access to Abortion
(2) Language and Education Rights for Deaf Individuals
(3) Provisional Rule in Wartime
(4) Public Access to Court Records
(5) Repeal "Protecting Sites of Religious Significance"
(6) Prevention Of Forced Sterilisation
(7) Restrictions on Forced Eugenics
(8) Integrity in Law Enforcement

#end

[Merni]

#2020_ga_ann_rev_2

(1) Language and Education Rights for Deaf Individuals
(2) Public Access to Court Records
(3) Repeal "Protecting Sites of Religious Significance"
(4) Data Protection Accord

#end

[Barfleur]

#2020_ga_ann_rev_2

(1) Data Protection Accord
(2) Language and Education Rights for Deaf Individuals
(3) Tariffs and Trade Convention
(4) Public Access to Court Records
(5) Repeal "Protecting Sites of Religious Significance"

#end

[Tinhampton]

#2020_ga_ann_rev_2

(1) Repeal "Protecting Sites of Religious Significance"
(2) Restrictions on Forced Eugenics
(3) Public Access to Court Records
(4) Provisional Rule in Wartime
(5) Integrity in Law Enforcement
(6) Prevention Of Forced Sterilisation
(7) Data Protection Accord
(8) Tariffs and Trade Convention
(9) Language and Education Rights for Deaf Individuals
(10) Access to Abortion

#end

GA481 loses points on my end because of its abysmal failure to spell "organisatons;" GA531 because of its insistence on using "Wacc" rather than "WACC;" GA493 and GA499 for the same very obvious reasons that led me to vote against them