Praetor elections

[Scott of Hyperborea]

If I recall correctly, there used to be laws governing Praetor elections in the Charter. Some Kaiser (I think it was an incarnation of Erik) decided that the Landsraad should make its own procedures and deleted that part from the Charter, but the Landsraad was flaky and never got around to it. The only current reference to Praetor elections in our law code comes from Imperial Decree 169, from the reign of Ari i Kaukainen, and reads as follows:

Eoin Dornan is fired from the position of Praetor for inactivity.

Because of editing of the constitution and the Landsraad never getting around to dealing with it, the rules for electing a Praetor do not officially exist at the moment. Therefore, I am reinstating the old rules, as best I remember them.

Three days will be allotted for candidates to be determined. A candidate (who may be noble or commoner, but not the Kaiser) may nominate himself or be nominated by someone else. If a candidate is both nominated and seconded, they are officially in the running. All nobles, ruling or honorary, Duke or Baron, get exactly one vote. If anyone gets a majority before four days, the voting will be closed and that candidate declared the winner; otherwise, the leader after four days will get the position.

I hereby declare the Praetorial elections having begun. I will take care of the Landsraad in the interim.

As far as I can tell, these are still officially the legal rules unless the Kaiseress declares something different for this election.

[UEC]

I moved it to the Decreebook from the Charter, hoping someone would catch it and deal with it. But figured the LAndsraad would be flaky.. so left the law somewhere editable instead of just the Charter..

http://www.shireroth.org/wiki/index.php ... r.C3.A6tor

[UEC]

Also, the precedures for Prætor elections and such are set down by tradition and precedent.

The Kaiser acts as Prætor when there is none, and must hold an election for the prætor. Nomination are made. And a vote held. What is done is nobles rank their 3 choices (if there are 3... 2 otherwise) and whoever has the most points wins.

ie..

Candidate g 1st choice (3 points)
candidate t 2nd choice (2 points)
candidate b 3rd choice (1 point)

and than all points tallied.. etc.. it's pretty straight forward... so.. cool your britches Bill... we don't have to have EVERYTHING written in stone.. and not everything is in writing... You remind me of Locke... (not meant as an insult)