On 6/18/25 04:02, Trigon via agora-discussion wrote: > On 6/17/25 5:21 PM, Mischief via agora-discussion wrote: >> On 6/17/25 12:25 PM, Trigon via agora-business wrote: >>> Gratuitous for TRUE: >>> >>> From rule 2651/1, "A player CAN initiate an election for a specified >>> elected office... [w]ith 2 support... provided that the initiator >>> becomes a candidate in the same message." >>> >>> Admittedly, there is some ambiguity here, but I argue that there is >>> one most sensible reading of this rule due to the way it is worded. >>> The tabled intent includes only initiating an election for an office. >>> Becoming a candidate is a separate action that must be taken in the >>> same message as an additional condition for completion of the tabled >>> intent. In this way, the identity of the "initiator" is not embedded >>> into the intent, it is determined at the time the tabled action >>> completes. >> >> That's a reasonable reading. I wonder, though, if that makes the >> original tabled intent invalid. An intent to do (X and Y) is not >> equivalent to an intent to do X. There are possible readings to make it >> okay in this case -- it is necessary to perform Y in conjunction with X >> for this method. Also, eir original wording could be construed as >> something like (an intent to do X) and then do Y >> >> That should give the judge something to ponder > Given the ambiguous situation, I lay out the following plan. If this CFJ > is TRUE, then I am the Promotor as the four-day nomination period lapsed > with no other candidates about fourteen hours ago. If it is FALSE, I can > still publish the report via deputisation. If a judgement is delivered > before the end of the week, then I will respect the outcome of the > judgement. If not, I will conditionally deputise as the Promotor, > converging the gamestate enough that we at least have a distribution > this week. >
The resolution of uncontested elections isn't automatic; it requires a by announcement action. Promotor is currently unambiguously vacant. -- Janet Cobb Assessor, Rulekeepor
