On 8/29/07, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/29/07, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Similarly, announcing "I pick up a rock" is not an action that results > > > in myself holding a rock. > > > > But in our case, it does. What results in a vote being cast? > > The announcement? The noting by Assessor? The Reporting of the vote? > > Our laws support that it's the announcement (for example, since you > > can retract it any time after the announcement, the vote had to be > > cast immediately upon the announcement). Moreover, unlike the rock > > example, "cast a vote" is an abstract concept with no inherent > > mechanism (votes can be cast on pieces of paper, by shows of hands, > > etc.) Therefore there is no difference between the act of casting > > a vote and the act of posting an announcement which causes a vote > > to have been cast. > > As you note, it is the rules that give the announcement its legal > status as a cast vote, so it sounds to me like what you're arguing is > "ISIDTID as long as the action is recognized by the rules", which > isn't really ISIDTID at all. But maybe I'm misunderstanding. > > -root > I jump off a cliff.
This conversation is hurting my brain. BobTHJ
