NationStates Governorship Amendment

NationStates Governorship Amendment

Passed by the Senate and signed by the President on 19 May 2025.

Preamble

Whereas

Elections for the NationStates Governor should be standardized to more closely match those for other elected executive positions.

Whereas

The Constitution already specifies the impeachment process for all government officials.

Part 1: Amendments

§1. Article 1 §2.2 of the Establishment of Nationstates Region Act shall be amended to the following:

    §2.2. An individual who participates or wants to participate within the colony must provide the Governor of the colony with their Reddit username or Discord username (or both usernames if applicable) along with the name of their ‘Nation’ within NationStates.

§2. Article 1 §2 of the Establishment of Nationstates Region Act shall be amended to include the following subsection after §2.2:

    §2.3. The Governor of the colony shall be responsible for verifying that the individual is a SimDemocracy user and for adding their username(s) and ‘Nation’ name to a public registry of all colony members if they are.

§3. Article 2 §5 of the Establishment of Nationstates Region Act shall be amended to the following:

    §5. The Governor shall be elected every 4 weeks, and elections shall be available for 24 hours.
         §5.1. These elections shall use the same voting method used for presidential elections, as is established in the Appendix §4 or other applicable portions of the SimDemocracy Constitution.
         §5.2. The Call for Candidates and election process shall be conducted by the Supervisor of Elections or the Electoral Commission in the same manner as for presidential elections, as is established in Article 7 or other applicable portions of the SimDemocracy Constitution.
         §5.3. Only members of the NationStates region who have registered with both the Governor and the Department of Voter Registration may vote in these elections.
              §5.3.1. The Department of Voter Registration shall be responsible for determining voter eligibility.
         §5.4. If the governorship is vacant, a by-election shall be held by the Supervisor of Elections or the Electoral Commission following the normal process for electing the Governor.
              §5.4.1. The by-election shall not occur if the vacancy begins within 5 days of voting for the next regular election of the Governor.
              §5.4.2. A Call for Candidates may be issued in anticipation of a vacancy if sufficient notice of resignation or removal is provided.
              §5.4.3. If the Call for Candidates for a gubernatorial by-election has not been issued in anticipation of a vacancy, the Call for Candidates must be issued within 24 hours of the vacancy being declared.
         §5.5. If a Governor deliberately creates an inaccurate public registry of colony members, or refuses to abdicate the governorship to a newly elected Governor, they shall be considered to have committed treason.

§4. Article 2 §6 (formerly Article 2 §7, prior to the Establishment of Nationstates Region Act Amendments) of the Establishment of Nationstates Region Act shall be repealed.

Part 2: The First Election

§1. The first election of the NationStates Governor shall take place on 17 May 2025.