Proposal: Zombie voting package (AI=3)
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Amend Rule 683 (Voting on Agoran Decisions) by appending the following
paragraph:
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The above notwithstanding, at the end of the voting period for an Agoran
decision, prior to the evaluation of conditionals, each entity who has
never submitted a valid ballot for that decision, and for whom the Rules
provide a default vote for that decision, automatically submits a valid
vote on that decision for eir default vote. A ballot cast this way is
called a default ballot. Providing an entity with a default vote on an
Agoran decision is secured with power threshold 2.
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[We do not think that the "never submitted" condition is too onerous on the
Assessor as e will be going through all the votes anyway.
We would even go with "never attempted to", but we suspect that might lead
to too much litigation, particularly because the easiest way to try and
fail is a NttPF.]
Amend Rule 955 (Determining the Will of Agora) by replacing "If there is
more than one option, and the number of voters is less than the quorum of
that decision, the outcome is instead FAILED QUORUM." with "If there is
more than one option, and the number of voters who cast valid non-default
ballots on that decision is less than its quorum, the outcome is instead
FAILED QUORUM. An entity is excluded from the count of voters for this
purpose if it was, at the end of the voting period, designated
quorum-ineligible by rules of power 2 or greater."
Amend Rule 879 (Quorum) by replacing "If no other rule defines the quorum
of an Agoran Decision, the quorum for that decision is equal to 2/3 of the
number of voters on the Agoran Decision to adopt a proposal that had been
most recently resolved at the time of that decision's initiation, the whole
rounded to the nearest integer (breaking ties upward)." with "The Activity
Level is equal to 2/3, rounded to the nearest integer and breaking ties
upward, of the number of voters counted towards the quorum of the most
recently-resolved Agoran decision to adopt a proposal. If no other rules
define the quorum of an Agoran decision, then the quorum of that decision
is equal to the Activity Level at the time if its initiation."
Enact a new power-2 rule entitled "Zombie Voting" reading as follows:
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A zombie has its voting strength halved.
The default vote of a zombie is to endorse eir master.
Zombies are not quorum-eligible.
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-Alexis
