Surrounding all this of course are numerous features that any political-design specialist of Civilization would consider obvious:

Any voter (or Delegate or Elector or Representative) votes for a list of three possible delegees of the next layer up; if your first choice doesn't have enough votes yet to be a valid representor, your vote cascades down to the next person on your list, but remains active and ready to switch up if needed.

Anyone can at any time immediately eliminate a person from their list, but it takes a 60-day cooldown to add a new person or rearrange the list.  The government design isn't meant to make it cheap or common to threaten your delegee with a temporary vote-switch if they don't vote your way on that particular day.  The government design isn't meant to make it possible for a new brilliant charismatic leader to take over the entire government the next day with no cooldowns.  It is meant to let you rapidly remove your vote from a delegee that has sufficiently ticked you off.

Once you have served as a Delegate, you can never again be eligible for candidacy as an Elector, nor may you ever after serve in the other branches of Governance.  Someone who has been an Elector can never be a Representative, a Representative can never be a Legislator.  This is meant to prevent a political structure whose upper ranks offer promotion as a reward to the most compliant members of the ranks below, for by this dark-conspiratorial method the delegees could become aligned to the structure above rather than their delegators below.

Surrounding all this of course are numerous features that any political-design specialist of Civilization would consider obvious:

Any voter (or Delegate or Elector or Representative) votes for a list of three possible delegees of the next layer up; if your first choice doesn't have enough votes yet to be a valid representor, your vote cascades down to the next person on your list, but remains active and ready to switch up if needed.

Anyone can at any time immediately eliminate a person from their list, but it takes a 60-day cooldown to add a new person or rearrange the list.  The government design isn't meant to make it cheap or common to threaten your delegee with a temporary vote-switch if they don't vote your way on that particular day.  The government design isn't meant to make it possible for a new brilliant charismatic leader to take over the entire government the next day with no cooldowns.  It is meant to let you rapidly remove your vote from a delegee that has sufficiently ticked you off.

Once you have served as a Delegate, or 'delegee' of any other level, you can't afterwards serve in any other branches of Governance.  A Delegate can never again be eligible for candidacy as an Elector, though they can become a Representative or a Legislator.  Someone who has been an Elector can never be a Representative; a Representative can never become a Legislator.  This is meant to prevent a political structure whose upper ranks offer promotion as a reward to the most compliant members of the ranks below, for by this dark-conspiratorial method the delegees could become aligned to the structure above rather than their delegators below.

(Most dath ilani would be suspicious of a scheme that tried to promote Electors from Delegates in any case; they wouldn't think there should be a political career ladder, if someone proposed that concept to them.  Dath ilani are instinctively suspicious of all things meta, and much more suspicious of anything purely meta; they want heavy doses of object-level mixed in.  To become an Elector you do something impressive enough, preferably something entirely outside of Governance, that Delegates will be impressed by you.  You definitely don't become an Elector by being among the most ambitious and power-seeking people who wanted to climb high and knew they had to start out a lowly Delegate, who then won a competition to serve the system above them diligently enough to be selected for a list of Electors fed to a political party's captive Delegates.)

Surrounding all this of course are numerous features that any political-design specialist of Civilization would consider obvious:

Any voter (or Delegate or Elector or Representative) votes for a list of three possible delegees of the next layer up; if your first choice doesn't have enough votes yet to be a valid representor, your vote cascades down to the next person on your list, but remains active and ready to switch up if needed.

Anyone can at any time immediately eliminate a person from their list, but it takes a 60-day cooldown to add a new person or rearrange the list.  The government design isn't meant to make it cheap or common to threaten your delegee with a temporary vote-switch if they don't vote your way on that particular day.  The government design isn't meant to make it possible for a new brilliant charismatic leader to take over the entire government the next day with no cooldowns.  It is meant to let you rapidly remove your vote from a delegee that has sufficiently ticked you off.

Once you have served as a Delegate, or 'delegee' of any other level, you can't afterwards serve in any other branches of Governance.  A Delegate can never again be eligible for candidacy as an Elector, though they can become a Representative or a Legislator.  Someone who has been an Elector can never be a Representative; a Representative can never become a Legislator.  This is meant to prevent a political structure whose upper ranks offer promotion as a reward to the most compliant members of the ranks below, for by this dark-conspiratorial method the delegees could become aligned to the structure above rather than their delegators below.

(Most dath ilani would be suspicious of a scheme that tried to promote Electors from Delegates in any case; they wouldn't think there should be a political career ladder, if someone proposed that concept to them.  Dath ilani are instinctively suspicious of all things meta, and much more suspicious of anything purely meta; they want heavy doses of object-level mixed in.  To become an Elector you do something impressive enough, preferably something entirely outside of Governance, that Delegates will be impressed by you.  You definitely don't become an Elector by being among the most ambitious and power-seeking people who wanted to climb high and knew they had to start out a lowly Delegate, who then won a competition to serve the system above them diligently enough to be selected for a list of Electors fed to a political party's captive Delegates.  If a dath ilani saw a system like this, that was supposedly a democracy set in place by the will of the people, they would ask what people even thought they were supposedly trying to do under the official story.)

Surrounding all this of course are numerous features that any political-design specialist of Civilization would consider obvious:

Any voter (or Delegate or Elector or Representative) votes for a list of three possible delegees of the next layer up; if your first choice doesn't have enough votes yet to be a valid representor, your vote cascades down to the next person on your list, but remains active and ready to switch up if needed.

Anyone can at any time immediately eliminate a person from their list, but it takes a 60-day cooldown to add a new person or rearrange the list.  The government design isn't meant to make it cheap or common to threaten your delegee with a temporary vote-switch if they don't vote your way on that particular day.  The government design isn't meant to make it possible for a new brilliant charismatic leader to take over the entire government the next day with no cooldowns.  It is meant to let you rapidly remove your vote from a delegee that has sufficiently ticked you off.

Once you have served as a Delegate, or 'delegee' of any other level, you can't afterwards serve in any other branches of Governance.  Similarly a Delegate can never again be eligible for candidacy as an Elector, though they can become a Representative or a Legislator.  Someone who has been an Elector can never be a Representative; a Representative can never become a Legislator.

This is meant to prevent a political structure whose upper ranks offer promotion as a reward to the most compliant members of the ranks below, for by this dark-conspiratorial method the delegees could become aligned to the structure above rather than their delegators below.

(Most dath ilani would be suspicious of a scheme that tried to promote Electors from Delegates in any case; they wouldn't think there should be a political career ladder, if someone proposed that concept to them.  Dath ilani are instinctively suspicious of all things meta, and much more suspicious of anything purely meta; they want heavy doses of object-level mixed in.  To become an Elector you do something impressive enough, preferably something entirely outside of Governance, that Delegates will be impressed by you.  You definitely don't become an Elector by being among the most ambitious and power-seeking people who wanted to climb high and knew they had to start out a lowly Delegate, who then won a competition to serve the system above them diligently enough to be selected for a list of Electors fed to a political party's captive Delegates.  If a dath ilani saw a system like this, that was supposedly a democracy set in place by the will of its people, they would ask what people even thought they were supposedly trying to do under the official story.)

Surrounding all this of course are numerous features that any political-design specialist of Civilization would consider obvious:

Any voter (or Delegate or Elector or Representative) votes for a list of three possible delegees of the next layer up; if your first choice doesn't have enough votes yet to be a valid representor, your vote cascades down to the next person on your list, but remains active and ready to switch up if needed.  This lets you vote for new delegees entering the system, without that wasting your vote while there aren't enough votes yet.

Anyone can at any time immediately eliminate a person from their 3-list, but it takes a 60-day cooldown to add a new person or reorder the list.  The government design isn't meant to make it cheap or common to threaten your delegee with a temporary vote-switch if they don't vote your way on that particular day.  The government design isn't meant to make it possible for a new brilliant charismatic leader to take over the entire government the next day with no cooldowns.  It is meant to let you rapidly remove your vote from a delegee that has sufficiently ticked you off.

Once you have served as a Delegate, or delegee of any other level, you can't afterwards serve in any other branches of Governance.  Similarly a Delegate can never again be eligible for candidacy as an Elector, though they can become a Representative or a Legislator.  Someone who has been an Elector can never be a Representative; a Representative can never become a Legislator.

This is meant to prevent a political structure whose upper ranks offer promotion as a reward to the most compliant members of the ranks below, for by this dark-conspiratorial method the delegees could become aligned to the structure above rather than their delegators below.

(Most dath ilani would be suspicious of a scheme that tried to promote Electors from Delegates in any case; they wouldn't think there should be a political career ladder, if someone proposed that concept to them.  Dath ilani are instinctively suspicious of all things meta, and much more suspicious of anything purely meta; they want heavy doses of object-level mixed in.  To become an Elector you do something impressive enough, preferably something entirely outside of Governance, that Delegates will be impressed by you.  You definitely don't become an Elector by being among the most ambitious and power-seeking people who wanted to climb high and knew they had to start out a lowly Delegate, who then won a competition to serve the system above them diligently enough to be selected for a list of Electors fed to a political party's captive Delegates.  If a dath ilani saw a system like this, that was supposedly a democracy set in place by the will of its people, they would ask what people even thought they were supposedly trying to do under the official story.)

Surrounding all this of course are numerous features that any political-design specialist of Civilization would consider obvious:

Any voter (or Delegate or Elector or Representative) votes for a list of three possible delegees of the next layer up; if your first choice doesn't have enough votes yet to be a valid representor, your vote cascades down to the next person on your list, but remains active and ready to switch up if needed.  This lets you vote for new delegees entering the system, without that wasting your vote while there aren't enough votes yet.

Anyone can at any time immediately eliminate a person from their 3-list, but it takes a 60-day cooldown to add a new person or reorder the list.  The government design isn't meant to make it cheap or common to threaten your delegee with a temporary vote-switch if they don't vote your way on that particular day.  The government design isn't meant to make it possible for a new brilliant charismatic leader to take over the entire government the next day with no cooldowns.  It is meant to let you rapidly remove your vote from a delegee that has sufficiently ticked you off.

Once you have served as a Delegate, or delegee of any other level, you can't afterwards serve in any other branches of Governance.  Similarly a Delegate can never again be eligible for candidacy as an Elector, though they can become a Representative or a Legislator.  Someone who has been an Elector can never be a Representative; a Representative can never become a Legislator.

This is meant to prevent a political structure whose upper ranks offer promotion as a reward to the most compliant members of the ranks below, for by this dark-conspiratorial method the delegees could become aligned to the structure above rather than their delegators below.

(Most dath ilani would be suspicious of a scheme that tried to promote Electors from Delegates in any case; they wouldn't think there should be a political career ladder, if someone proposed that concept to them.  Dath ilani are instinctively suspicious of all things meta, and much more suspicious of anything purely meta; they want heavy doses of object-level mixed in.  To become an Elector you do something impressive enough, preferably something entirely outside of Governance, that Delegates will be impressed by you.  You definitely don't become an Elector by being among the most ambitious and power-seeking people who wanted to climb high and knew they had to start out a lowly Delegate, who then won a competition to serve the system above them diligently enough to be selected for a list of Electors fed to a political party's captive Delegates.  If a dath ilani saw a system like this, that was supposedly a democracy set in place by the will of its people, they would ask what the captive 'voters' even thought they were supposedly trying to do under the official story.)