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       Law 001 (Election reforms Senate version)
       By: The Republic Rome Date: November 26, 2013, 8:35 pm
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       Election Code
       Article I
       The conduct and the administration of the elections for the
       Senate of New Republica shall be guided by the following
       principles:
       - Elections for Senate of New Republica shall be held on the
       basis of free, universal, equal, direct and secret vote.
       - Eligible voters are equal in the exercise of the right to
       vote.
       - No citizen of New Republica can be deprived from the right of
       vote because of discrimination on the ground of race, ethnicity,
       color, language, gender, religious belief, political
       convictions, education, social affiliation or any other similar
       criteria.
       - Freedom and privacy in casting the vote is guaranteed. No
       person has the right to prevent a citizen from voting, force one
       to vote in a certain way, hold anyone accountable for the vote,
       or request that anyone reveal his/her vote.
       - All candidates are free to campaign and to hold political
       events. Furthermore, they are all entitled to the right of
       publishing and disseminating campaign materials in any lawful
       manner.
       - The use of public offices, resources, or staff of any public
       institution for the purpose of supporting a political entity in
       an election is strictly prohibited.
       - All political entities, their supporters and all other
       institution are obliged to respect the fundamental principles
       set forth in this article and take all the measures to ensure
       conduct of free, fair and well-informed elections within a
       climate of democratic tolerance, peace and respect for the rule
       of law.
       *Public Offices – Governmental Offices
       Article II - Definitions
       Candidate – Is an individual who submits his candidature on the
       forum.
       Polling Center – the area designated on the forum for the
       purpose of voting. No other vote besides those submitted on the
       polling center shall be accepted.
       Article III – Central Election Comission (CEC)
       - The commission responsible to administrate the elections.
       - CEC shall contain three members;
       - Two of the Senators who will be proposed by the Senate and the
       head judge.
       - CEC Head shall be voted by it’s members. - Those who have the
       right of counting write-in votes should not make the vote
       public. - The result of the elections to be valid shall be
       certified by CEC with a majority vote. - Complaints for the
       elections must be submitted and messaged to all CEC members and
       Head Judge. - CEC should not certify the elections without
       reviewing all the submitted complaints. - CEC members with a
       majority vote decide if the complaints are right and true
       Article IV – Voter eligibility
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       World Assembly on Nations States.
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       votes must message the CEC members not later than 14 days before
       the election day.
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       those 14 days will not be allowed to vote.
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       delegate, Founder and CEC members.
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       Article V – Date and announcement of elections
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       elections.
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       mandate.
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       weeks not more than 3 weeks before the date of elections.
       Article VI – Voter’s List
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       forum, including RMB too.
       Article VII – Penalties
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       officials who has the right of counting the write-in votes
       he/she shall be fired from all of his/her current positions;
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       Governmental, Senatorial or Court position for a period of 9
       months.
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       be fired from all of his/her current positions;
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       Governmental, Senatorial or Court position for a period of 12
       months.
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       Election Code he/she shall be deprived from the right of holding
       an Governmental, Senatorial or Court position for a period of 15
       months.
       – If one of the public officials do not respect the obligation
       set forth by the Election Code he/she shall be removed from all
       of his current positions and shall be deprived from the right of
       holding a Governmental, Senatorial or Court position for a
       period of 5 months.
       *Fraud- manipulation of results, voting more than once, forcing
       other individual to vote for a certain candidate, preventing
       individuals from voting.
       Passed by the New Republican Senate on a vote of 3-0
       Signed by the New Republican President The Republic Rome
       ***Under Judicial Review***
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