wellspring/04-suffrage/04-suffrage.md

# Wellspring: Suffrage

## Eligibility to vote

Eligibility to vote is not linked to citizenship. Citizenship is a different mechanism with a different purpose. Non-citizens who are resident or domiciled may vote, if eligible.

Eligibility to vote is purpose-specific. Indepagents may be eligible to vote for one thing while being ineligible to vote for another.

Eligibility to vote is based on:
1. Being fully paid up on taxes.
2. Having been a taxpayer for some specified fraction of the previous term of the office or decision being voted on.

The government shall provide receipts for taxes. The government may use its records of taxation to validate eligibility.

### Agency

Only indepagents may vote. Corpagents shall not be able to cast votes.

### Termed offices

An indepagent shall be eligible to vote for a particular termed office if they have fully paid taxes on their income over at least 75% of the duration of the previous term of that office. The stints of earning need not be contiguous.

[Move this example into the apologia]
- E.g., to qualify to vote for a 4-year termed office, one must have made tax payments on income covering at least 3 out of the last 4 years.

### Constitutional amendments

An indepagent shall be eligible to vote on a constitutional amendment if they have fully paid taxes on their income over at least 10 out of the last 30 years; the stints of earning need not be contiguous.

[Give examples in the apologia]