EXPERIMENT 00077 RULE SELECTION
As selected on Discord #botspam, the rule for this week is Rule 2154
("Election Procedure"). I affirm under penalty of No Faking that, to the
best of my knowledge, the process used in this selection had the correct
distribution.
Please send suggestions if you have them!
The text of Rule 2154 is reproduced below for convenience:
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Rule 2154/60 (Power=2)
Election Procedure
When an election is initiated, it enters the nomination period,
which lasts for 4 days. After an election is initiated and until
nominations close, any player CAN become a candidate by
announcement. A candidate ceases to be a candidate if e ceases to
be a player during the election or if holding the office would
make em Overpowered. During the nomination period, a candidate CAN
cease to be a candidate by announcement if there is at least one
other candidate.
An election whose nomination period is complete is contested if it
has two or more candidates, and uncontested otherwise. Nominations
close at the end of the poll's voting period or when the election
is ended, whichever comes first.
After the nomination period ends, the ADoP (or, if the office is
the ADoP, the Assessor) CAN and, in a timely fashion, SHALL:
1) If the election is contested, initiate an Agoran decision to
select the winner of the election (the poll). For this
decision, the Vote Collector is the ADoP (or, if the office is
the ADoP, the Assessor), the valid options are the candidates
for that election (including those who become candidates after
its initiation), and the voting method is instant runoff. When
the poll is resolved, its outcome, if a player, wins the
election. If the outcome is not a player, the election ends
with no winner.
2) If POSSIBLE per the following paragraph, end the election
immediately.
If at any point an uncontested election has a single candidate,
then any player CAN by announcement declare em the winner of the
election, thereby causing em to win the election. If at any point
an uncontested election has no candidates, then any player CAN
declare the election ended with no winner by announcement.
When a player wins an election, e is installed into the associated
office and the election ends.
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