On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Ed Murphy wrote:
>> Assuming that tusho is not a player (CFJ 2074), Proposal 5648 was not
>> made democratic until after the end of the voting period. Rule 2142
>> allows this, but what does it do to vote validity?
>
> Gratuitous:
>
> R683 strongly implies that a vote is valid if it is among the first N where
> N<= the voting limit when the vote is submitted. This points to a dangerous
> break in the rule allowing democratization during the voting period, in that
> Ordinary votes cast before the democratization would remain valid even after
> the democratization.
Among the otherwise-valid votes on an Agoran decision, only the
first N submitted by each entity are valid, where N is the
entity's voting limit on that decision.
I don't see anything in there that implies "when the vote is cast"
timing. It talks about the collective validity of votes which could
have been cast at different times, not the validity of individual
votes.
In fact, condition (d) strongly implies that vote validity is a status
that is evaluated instantaneously, not set in stone when the vote was
cast -- otherwise, retracting a vote would fail to invalidate it.
-root
