Whether the whole-Korda statehood petition and the separate lake-corridor merger petition trigger §15.5.a(1), requiring both to be handled together through the Territory Convention process.
The Council reviewed the certifications of both petitions, the geographic descriptions attached to them, the Elections Panel record scheduling the corridor referendum, and this Council's prior procedural notice concerning the relationship between the two petitions.
The Council determines that §15.5.a(1) applies.
The corridor petition seeks to merge the defined lake corridor with Kelvant. The whole-Territory petition seeks to move Korda, including that same corridor, into the Statehood process. Those outcomes cannot both occur as proposed.
For purposes of §15.5.a(1), the petitions therefore affect different defined portions of the same Territory within the required period.
This determination does not decide which petition should prevail. It does not decide whether Korda should become a State, whether the corridor should merge with Kelvant, or what resolution a Territory Convention should propose.
- The scheduled referendum on merger of the Korda lake corridor with Kelvant does not proceed.
- Both certified petitions are to be addressed together under §15.5.a(3).
- The Civic Consul shall convene a Territory Convention composed as provided by §15.5.a(3).
- The Convention's ninety-day period begins with its first session, not with this filing.
Both petition certifications remain valid records. Neither is withdrawn or erased by this determination. What changes is the constitutional process through which they proceed.
The Elections Panel shall mark the scheduled corridor referendum as not proceeding under §15.5.a(1). Administrative preparations already undertaken remain part of the public election record.
The Council makes no finding on any future judicial challenge to this determination. Questions concerning judicial jurisdiction or the meaning of “different defined portions” beyond the application stated here remain unresolved.
Filed to the National Record System. Copies transmitted to the Civic Consul, Elections Panel, Korda territorial government, the State of Kelvant, and the Assembly members representing districts within Korda Territory.
End of record.