On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote:
Create a new rule, “Instant Run-Off Voting”, with power ??? and the
following text:
When the voting method for an Agoran Decision is instant run-off, then,
for that decision, a valid ballot consists of exactly one of the
following:
* PRESENT.
* ENDORSE and the name of a person.
* A list of zero or more of the valid options for the Agoran Decision.
Ballots CAN include conditions. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, a
ballot consisting of a list CANNOT include conditions other than those
that apply to the whole list.
[Plus some glue for defining the win condition for an IR vote,
determining quorum, etc.]
I don't think creating a new rule is enough. There are already rules
speaking about most of these things, and this would just conflict with
them.
Or, actually, be redundant: My cursory reading of the relevant rules
tells me that the rules are _already_ saying everything this proposal
does, except _possibly_ for the restriction on conditions - and only in so
far as custom is to be lenient with expressing conditions - I think they
still already resolve to conditions on the whole vote (i.e. list of
options).
I think a source of confusion is that Rule 955 and Rule 2127 seem to use
"option" in incompatible ways. Rule 955 is the only rule that explicitly
considers a vote not necessarily to consist of a single option, while Rule
2127 on the contrary defines conditionals under the assumption that a vote
is a single option.
Assuming that the word "option" is _not_ meant to refer to the same thing
in those two rules, the options listed in an IRV vote are _not_ themselves
votes, and so already cannot be either PRESENT or ENDORSE.
Greetings,
Ørjan.
