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by The Federation of URA World Assembly Affairs. . 180 reads.

URA Recommendation: Vote AGAINST "Against Quorum Raiding"


URA World Assembly Recommendation

Against Quorum Raiding
The World Assembly,

Defining quorum raiding as the act of unseating delegates approving a World Assembly proposal in order to prevent the approved proposal from reaching quorum and going to vote,

Understanding that historically, quorum raiding was used as an anti-fascist tactic and was used exclusively in order to prevent any subscriber of this particularly vile ideology from promoting themselves or spreading propaganda to the eyes of thousands of world leaders, and billions of people,

Concerned, however, that the practice has evolved beyond that of merely preventing the spread of fascism and similar ideologies, turning into an alternative for counter-campaigning any telegram getting to vote, allowing the opinion of a few to be much more forcefully shot down without any actual consent from the approving delegates,

Believing that quorum raiding undermines the democratic right of the collective delegates of the World Assembly and subjects them to be momentarily dethroned,

Observing that past use of quorum raiding and similar tactics have proven to be harmful to the establishment of the World Assembly and its participants, discouraging many delegates with smaller endorsement counts to abstain altogether from approving proposals out of fear of retaliation, making it significantly harder for proposals to reach vote following instances of quorum raiding,

Noting that using non-combative means of preventing a proposal from going to vote, including but not limited to informative counter-campaigns and outreach, serve to prevent conflict and alleviate tension regarding World Assembly proposals,

Hereby;

  1. Proclaims its unwavering opposition to quorum raiding as an expression of opinion on any individual proposal or author,

  2. Urges militaries to immediately cease quorum raiding operations except in cases where the concerned proposal will serve as a tool for propaganda for any particularly hateful ideology or any region or nation which legitimately adheres to said ideology, and the only regions targeted by the operation are supporters of such an ideology,

  3. Further urges militaries wishing to quorum raid a proposal excepted from clause two to only do so after extensive forethought and as a last resort,

  4. Reminds nations, regardless of actual militaristic ideology, to remember that the World Assembly as an organization should not suffer due to personal political ambitions of any one individual, nation, region, or other organization, regardless of the adherence to this resolution, and asks them to act with good intentions towards the World Assembly, its inhabitants, and the world at large.

Co-authored by Morover.

This Security Council resolution was written by Jedinsto and Morover to oppose quorum raiding. You can find the forum thread here.

The United Regions Alliance recommends that you vote AGAINST the resolution

This declaration expresses its opposition to the practice of quorum raiding, which this resolution defines as "the act of unseating delegates approving a World Assembly proposal in order to prevent the approved proposal from reaching quorum." The resolution declares that all militaries should cease quorum raiding except as a last resort for preventing hateful propaganda. The Alliance strongly disagrees with these suggestions; limiting the ways in which regional operators can combat fascism in the WA is not a policy to be supported. Leaving quorum raiding as a last resort could allow hateful resolutions to sneak through the queue and enter voting procedures. In its opposition, the URA recommended to its delegates that they should withhold support from this declaration. For these reasons, the URA strongly recommends voting against this resolution.


The following comments were given on the LinkURA Discord server:

St Abbaddon voting member Draganisia wrote,

Draganisia wrote:Well I hate most raiding... Unless it's against Nazis or extreme Communists. I'm 50/50 on this one specifically but overall will vote for it in the poll at least.

Conch Kingdom resident Kursibar wrote,

Kursibar wrote:Oooo, a declaration against quorum raiding, like that will do anything. I like how the SC has been redefined by the Declarations thing. No longer a popularity contest, it's now a weaker, meta GA lol.

Conch Kingdom voting member Duby wrote,

Duby wrote:Declarations don't do crap, so there's no point for having them. If people want and can quorum raid, this won't stop them.

To which Karma voting member You should see me in a crown wrote,

You should see me in a crown wrote:Even if it won't mechanically do anything, I always like to pretend it'll have some kind of ripple effect because playing the game by just what's there is boring as hell!


This document was authored by Scalizagasti on behalf of the United Regions Alliance. Please do not reproduce it without permission.

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