If the proposal https://blognomic.com/archive/idle_hands_are_the_devils_playthings failed, delete “Active + 1” and replace it with “3” in the proposal text below.

Create a new motion in the list of Motions in the rule Regional Development Fora:

* Support Politician [Effortful Active + 1]: A Motion to increase the Political Power of this Region by 1. This Motion can only be added if at least one of the Author’s cities in the region is at or above the Prefecture Municipal Authority.

Create a new Rule called Running for President:

Each Region has a Political Power, which is a number defaulting to 0.

Any City Architect who owns at least one City that has the Canton level of Municipal Authority may take the Run for President action as a weekly action.  When they do so, they may make a Declaration of Victory tagged with [Presidential], known as a Presidential Declaration of Victory. In a Presidential Declaration of Victory, each region provides a number of votes for the DoV equal to their Political Power; if that City Architect owns at least one city in that region, or if all owners of the cities in that region are voting FOR, then the votes from the region itself are considered to be FOR, otherwise, the votes from that region are considered to be AGAINST.

All City Architects other than the one declaring victory are encouraged but not obligated to vote against it.

Quorum for a Presidential Declaration of Victory is calculated as if the sum of all current Political Power values were being added to the player count, and Presidential Declarations of Victory do not put the game into Hiatus as a result of being ongoing.