{ AI 2, II 2
[ This allows players to choose "Representatives" through contracts, who can
vote on their behalf in decisions
Create a new power 2 Rule:
{{
A Constituency is a public contract identifying itself as such. A
Constituency requires at least 3 parties.
A player SHALL NOT attempt to become a party to more than one Constituency
at a time; doing this is the Class 4 Crime of Electoral Fraud.
If a player is a party to more than one Constituency at a time, e
immediately ceases to be party to all Constituencies, except the one e most
recently became party to.
Representative is a Constituency switch, with values 'none' (default) and
all first-class parties to that contract.
A Constituency's Representative CAN be flipped by any party without 3
objections, or by a mechanism specified by the Constituency.
Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, it CANNOT be flipped in any other
way, and CANNOT be flipped to a given player if any of the following are
true:
a) The player has not explicitly consented to be the Representative of that
Constituency. (Intent to flip a Constituency's Representative to oneself
constitutes explicit consent to be the Representative of that contest.)
b) A member of that player's basis is already a Representative.
A player who is not party to a Constituency is an Independent.
}}
Repeal Rule 2222.
Replace the entire text of Rule 1950, "Voting on Democratic Decisions",
with:
{{
If there is no Emergency Session at the time a democratic decision is
initiated, the eligible voters on are those entities that were active
first-class Independents or active Representatives at the start of its
voting period, the voting limit of each Independent is one and the voting
limit of each Representative is the number of active first-class parties to
eir Constituency. Otherwise the eligible voters are the active Senators and
each Senator has a voting limit of one on the decision.
}}
Replace the last paragraph of Rule 2156, "Voting on Ordinary Decisions",
with:
{{
If there is no Emergency Session at the time an ordinary decision is
initiated, the eligible voters are those entities that were active
Indepentents or Representatives at the start of its voting period, the voting
limit of each Independent is eir caste at the start of its voting period,
reduced to the next lower caste (minimum Savage) for each positive multiple
of 4 Rests that the voter posesses at the start of the voting period and the
voting limit of each Representative is the total of all castes of active
parties to eir Constituency, reduced by 3 for each positive multiple of 4
Rests that all parties to eir Constituency posses. Otherwise, the eligible
voters are the active Senators and each Senator has a voting limit of one on
the decision.
}}
Replace the second and third points in Rule 2154, "Election Procedure",
with:
{{
2) If there is no Emergency Session at the time the decision is initiated,
the eligible voters are the active first-class Independents and the active
Representatives. Otherwise, the eligible voters are the active Senators.
3) If there is no Emergency Session at the time the decision is initiated, the
voting limit of each first-class Independent on an election is one and the
voting limit of each Representative is the number of active first-class
parties to eir Constituency. Otherwise, the voting limit of each Senator is
one. An ordered list of multiple choices constitutes a conditional vote for
the first choice if it could be the outcome, otherwise the second choice if
it could be the outcome, and so forth.
}}
In Rule 1367, "Degrees", replace the bulleted list defining an Agoran
Decision with:
{{
1) The available options are FAILING GRADE and each degree that the author
does not have. The available options can change during the voting period.
2) The eligible voters are each active Independent and each active
Representative at the time the decision is initiated.
3) Each eligible voter's voting limit on the decision is thrice what their
voting limit would have been on an ordinary decision initiated at the same
time as this one, plus five for each degree e held at that time. (This
includes degrees held by parties to the Constituency of each
Representative.)
4) The specific thesis for which the degree is to be awarded is an
essential parameter of the decision (but not the text of that thesis).
}
And here's a proto-consituency:
{
The Agoran People's Party
- The name of this public contract is the Agoran People's Party.
- This contract is a Constituency.
- Any player CAN join or leave this contract by announcement.
- The Representative of this Constituency CAN change as allowed by the
Rules, or with 1.5 Party Consent.
- This contract CAN be amended as allowed by the Rules or with 1.5 Party
Consent.
- Any party CAN flip the Representative of this Constituency to C-walker by
announcement. Any party CAN remove this paragraph from this contract by
announcement if C-walker is the Representative of this Constituency.
- The Representative of this Constituency SHALL vote in Agoran Decisions as
dictated by this contract; where this contract does not regulate how the
Representative votes in Agoran Decisions, e MAY vote as e wishes.
- (Something similar to the 'Party Stance' section of the recently
posted Conservative Party.)
}
--
C-walker, who clearly intends this message to be public.
