On 6/30/20 8:50 AM, Jason Cobb via agora-business wrote: > On 6/30/20 6:57 AM, Becca Lee via agora-business wrote: >> Whether or not the ballot satisfied the sixth condition for a valid >> ballot is impossible to decide. This is because the anonymous player >> was unsuccessful in retracting eir previous vote if e had cast one. To >> quote rule 683 "an entity can by announcement withdraw... a ballot". >> For an action to be taken by announcement, rule 478 tells us that the >> actor "performs that action by unambiguously and clearly specifying >> the action and announcing that e performs it." In this case, the actor >> was taking the action of withdrawing a specific player's previous >> ballot. For an action to be "unambiguous" and "clear" it must, at the >> bare minimum, be possible to resolve, but this retraction is a >> gigantic mystery. The recordkeepor simply doesn't know who to withdraw >> the vote from, and no other Agoran knows either. I don't hold that >> anonymous actions can never be ambiguous and clear, I simply hold that >> in the specific case of withdrawing a specific person's ballot on an >> Agoran decision, part of that action is obviously and integrally the >> actor and their previous vote on the agoran decision (after all, a >> vote never cast can't be withdrawn). So this action of withdrawing >> fails. > > > Well, you happen to be wrong that the recordkeepor didn't know whose > ballot to withdraw. > > - The person controlling the unspecified.behav...@gmail.com email address. >
For our records, could you confirm this from that address as well? -- ---- Publius Scribonius Scholasticus, Herald, Referee, Tailor, Pirate Champion, Badge of the Great Agoran Revival, Badge of the Salted Earth
