With the Prime Minister's Cabinet having completed putting the finishing touches on a proposed policy for the conduct of national elections, and the electoral methodology, the discussion and task moves to another level -- implementation of these policies for use in the upcoming April Elections. With the nation abuzz by questions of "how is this going to be done?"

Preparing the policy was spearheaded by Prime Minister, Robert Gresham, who launched the debate by offering a few questions to direct the course of discussion, and primed the pump by throwing a few ideas to his fellow Ministers for their criticism and reciprocal ideas.

The plan involves a registration system for each election, to serve two purposes -- to ensure fair, honest, and secure election results and to provide statistical demographics on activity within Hanover. The methods of balloting and counting were settled -- ballots will be collected from a form on a page sponsored by the Royal Commission on Elections, and counted as per the system seen in Babkha recently, and in Morovia in years past. The Government will be asking for public feedback on what they would like to see in the Election Laws shortly before the proposal is sent to the Royal Council of State.

National Elections will be held in early April, as pursuant to the Organic Law, and at that time the Royal Council of State will have already approved the Parliamentary Rules and an Election Law so that these April Elections will not be entered into with at least some guidelines in place. The first elected parliamentary session will be inaugurated on April 15, 2003, for a six-month term. The first election looks to be a learning experience for all of Hanover. By setting up the process and seeing how it goes this first time, the nation can see whether or not mistakes will be made, and if so, what should be changed for future elections.

It appears, despite the fact that a lot of things need to be put together still before April, that Hanover is clearly on its way to getting things done right to get its more democratic elements operable.