On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 6:08 PM, omd <c.ome...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Proposal: secret votes redux (AI=3)
I retract this proposal and submit this modified version:
Proposal: secret votes redux (AI=3)
Create a new Power-3 Rule titled "Star Chamber":
Star is a Voting Chamber. The voting limit of an eligible voter
on a decision in the Star Chamber is 1. Submitting a proposal
in the Star Chamber has a cost of A Yaks, where A is the value
of the Insanity Fee, a Budget Switch.
The Chamber of a decision CANNOT become Star except by being
initialized to that value when the decision is initiated. If
the set of options of a decision in the Star Chamber changes, or
such a decision is initiated with more than 1000 options or
eligible voters, it automatically becomes Democratic.
Otherwise, when a decision is initiated in the Star Chamber, the
initiator SHALL, within 24 hours, randomly choose a code (from a
reasonably large universe of possible codes) for each
combination of eligible voter and option, privately inform each
eligible voter of eir code for each option, and publish the
SHA-1 hash of a document (the Codebook) listing all such codes.
Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, when submitting a ballot,
an eligible voter can select an option by clearly identifying
eir code for that option rather than the option itself.
Within 4 days after the end of such a decision's voting period,
the initiator SHALL publish its Codebook, clearly identifying it
as such; when e does so at any time, the decision becomes
Collapsed. If e does not do so in a timely fashion after the
end of the voting period, then all ballots on that decision
become invalid and the decision becomes Collapsed. Rules to the
contrary notwithstanding, the decision can only be resolved
after the decision becomes Collapsed; if the vote collector is
required to resolve the decision, e need only do so in a timely
fashion after this occurs.
The initiator of a decision in the Star Chamber SHALL NOT
disclose its codes, or otherwise allow them to become known to
other persons, before the end of the voting period except as
previously described, and SHOULD take measures to assign the
codes automatically without em personally seeing them.
Set the value of the Insanity Fee to 100.
[Puts the burden of maintaining the codes on the Promotor rather than
each voter, and, unlike previous proposals, avoids having to trust
anyone to determine the gamestate. I considered having the initiator
contact the vote collector immediately, but may as well minimize the
number of people who have to handle the codes - I will attempt to be
punctual.]
