Rogatio Aurelia de rogatoribus creandis (Nova Roma)

"The Aurelian Law concerning the appointment of rogators."

I. Historically, the office of rogator has been restricted only to those who work in the censorial office. The nature and duties of rogator requires them to access specific data to aid in the development of voting roles, as well as data to aid in the breaking of voting ties in elections. This also meant having to have access to systems that also held Personal Identifiable Information (PII) of our citizens. With the development of new, more accessible record keeping that excludes PII, the once previous restriction is no longer required and is considered unnecessarily restrictive.

II. This law is only intended to be an amending law and is not intended to be standalone law. It is intended to only modify the lex Tullia de comitiis habendis and does not rescind it. As this has law affects how comitia operates internally through the variance in rogator appointment, it will require senate ratification in accordance with article V.F. of the lex Cornelia Domitia de re publica constituenda.

III. With this law, article II.C.1.a. of the lex Tullia de comitiis habendis is amended to read as follows:

The duties of the rogatores are to ask the citizens to vote by advertising the voting in any and all venues of communication, to assist citizens in the voting procedure, to answer their questions in connection to the technical and procedural aspects ongoing voting, to identify and to register the voters by centuries or tribes, and to pass the anonymous list of votes by centuries and tribes to the diribitores for counting. For the sake of tiebreaking, the rogatores shall provide the citizenship date and the birthdate of all candidates to the diribitores. The rogatores shall have access both to the cista and relevant accessible censorial records in order to fulfil their duties. If the censorial records are considered to be inadequate or otherwise restricted due to the presence of sensitive citizen data (personal identifiable information), then only officers of the Censorial Office may be appointed to this position. One of the rogatores can be appointed as custos. There shall be at least one rogator. Candidates for censorship, consulship, praetorship and plebeian tribuneship may not serve as rogatores.