Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Dragon] Presidential Elections and Shorter Voting Periods

2020-05-19 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/19/20 10:33 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 7:32 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
>  wrote:
>> On 5/19/20 10:27 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote:
 Replace the first paragraph of Bylaw 6: Recordkeeping with the following:
   A contract-defined office behaves as closely as possible to a regular 
 office,
   except that:
   - its only salary is 5 banknotes once per payday
   - only members can hold it
   - only members can take, support, or object to actions that would change 
 its
 officeholder
   - a person's voting strength in elections for it is equal to the
 number of shares e holds

   President of the Dragon Corporation is a contract-defined office.
>>> Possible bug: who collects votes for an election for President? I
>>> guess it's the ADoP, but they're not actually required to do it unless
>>> they become a party to the contract.
>>
>> Also, could someone deputize for President?
> Yes, if they're a member. That seems like a good thing?
>
> -Aris


/shrug

I was more just curious what you all thought about whether or not it
would work.

-- 
Jason Cobb



Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Dragon] Presidential Elections and Shorter Voting Periods

2020-05-19 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 7:32 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
 wrote:
>
> On 5/19/20 10:27 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote:
> >> Replace the first paragraph of Bylaw 6: Recordkeeping with the following:
> >>   A contract-defined office behaves as closely as possible to a regular 
> >> office,
> >>   except that:
> >>   - its only salary is 5 banknotes once per payday
> >>   - only members can hold it
> >>   - only members can take, support, or object to actions that would change 
> >> its
> >> officeholder
> >>   - a person's voting strength in elections for it is equal to the
> >> number of shares e holds
> >>
> >>   President of the Dragon Corporation is a contract-defined office.
> > Possible bug: who collects votes for an election for President? I
> > guess it's the ADoP, but they're not actually required to do it unless
> > they become a party to the contract.
>
>
> Also, could someone deputize for President?

Yes, if they're a member. That seems like a good thing?

-Aris


Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Dragon] Presidential Elections and Shorter Voting Periods

2020-05-19 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/19/20 10:27 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote:
>> Replace the first paragraph of Bylaw 6: Recordkeeping with the following:
>>   A contract-defined office behaves as closely as possible to a regular 
>> office,
>>   except that:
>>   - its only salary is 5 banknotes once per payday
>>   - only members can hold it
>>   - only members can take, support, or object to actions that would change 
>> its
>> officeholder
>>   - a person's voting strength in elections for it is equal to the
>> number of shares e holds
>>
>>   President of the Dragon Corporation is a contract-defined office.
> Possible bug: who collects votes for an election for President? I
> guess it's the ADoP, but they're not actually required to do it unless
> they become a party to the contract.


Also, could someone deputize for President?

-- 
Jason Cobb



Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Dragon] Presidential Elections and Shorter Voting Periods

2020-05-19 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 5:53 PM James Cook via agora-discussion
 wrote:
>
> On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 05:22, Aris Merchant via agora-business
>  wrote:
> > I submit the following Dragon Corporation Amendment Proposals:
> >
> > ---
> > Presidential Elections
> >
> > Replace the first paragraph of Bylaw 6: Recordkeeping with the following:
> >   A contract-defined office behaves as closely as possible to a regular 
> > office,
> >   except that:
> >   - its only salary is 5 banknotes once per payday
> >   - only members can hold it
> >   - only members can take, support, or object to actions that would change 
> > its
> > officeholder
> >   - a person's voting strength in elections for it is equal to the
> > number of shares e holds
> >
> >   President of the Dragon Corporation is a contract-defined office.
>
> Possible bug: who collects votes for an election for President? I
> guess it's the ADoP, but they're not actually required to do it unless
> they become a party to the contract.

Ugh. Missed that. Well, I'm glad I have the other proposal to lower
the voting period, so we won't have to start the entire voting period
over again.

-Aris