TTttPF (Is this my first time?)
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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 06:20:03 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ørjan Johansen <oer...@nvg.ntnu.no>
Reply-To: "Agora Nomic discussions (DF)" <agora-discuss...@agoranomic.org>
To: agora-discuss...@agoranomic.org
Subject: DIS: CFJ on another Campaigning mess (Re: OFF: [Assessor] Resolution of
Proposals 7908-7921)
I make two CFJ, and request that they be linked:
There exists a Rule entitled "Campaign Proposals, with power 3",
with power 1.
and
The ADOP SHALL NOT distribute Campaign Proposals for ongoing
elections.
My argument for the first one is that proposal 7912 contains an obvious typo:
Enact a new rule entitled (Campaign Proposals, with power 3), reading as
follows:
My argument for the second one (which I thought of first) applies only if the
first one is FALSE.
In that case, the new rule entitled "Campaign Proposals" and having power )
states (possibly due to a missing "except"):
A Campaign Proposal is an Official Proposal exempt from automatic
distribution, and SHALL NOT be distributed as required by the rules.
The election with which a Campaign Proposal is associated, as well as its
Commitment, are essential parameters for an Agoran decision to adopt a
Campaign Proposal.
That's a pretty strong prohibition, which seems to have no exemption for
elections. Rule 2154 states the opposite, of course:
When an election is initiated, it enters the nomination period,
which lasts for 7 days. In a timely fashion after the nomination
period ends, the ADoP CAN and SHALL, in the same message:
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 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.
2) Distribute all pending Campaign Proposals associated
with the election.
3) If POSSIBLE per the following paragraph, end the election
immediately.
However, Rule 2154 only has power 2.
Greetings,
Ørjan.
On Sun, 15 Oct 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote:
[snip]
Enact a new rule entitled (Campaign Proposals, with power 3), reading as
follows:
During the nomination period of an election, any candidate for that election
CAN submit a Campaign Proposal for that election, provided e does not
currently have a pending Campaign Proposal for that election, using the
normal
mechanism for proposal submission. Campaign Proposals SHOULD relate to the
duties of the office up for election. Commitment is an untracked Campaign
Proposal switch with values Committed (default) and Uncommitted. The author
of a Committed proposal may flip it to Uncommitted by announcement.
[A Campaign Proposal is basically an extension of a candidate's platform,
allowing them to propose changes to any office that they wish to associate
with
their election.
Commitment is basically stating whether a candidate wishes to be elected only
if their proposal passes. They can opt out of commitment, so that they can be
elected if it fails. This allows a player to encode "I will take this office
only if I can change it in this fashion." into the election system.]
A Campaign Proposal is an Official Proposal exempt from automatic
distribution, and SHALL NOT be distributed as required by the rules.
The election with which a Campaign Proposal is associated, as well as its
Commitment, are essential parameters for an Agoran decision to adopt a
Campaign Proposal.
[The election procedure dictates when Campaign Proposals should be
distributed; they don't follow the normal distribution system. They also
have some additional essential parameters, although note that a player
can opt out of Commitment even after the proposal is distributed.]
When a Campaign Proposal is adopted, it CANNOT take effect until
the associated election ends. When the election ends, if the winner was the
proposal's author, then any player CAN once make it take effect by
announcement (with its power set as usual for an adopted proposal). If the
conditions for a Campaign Proposal to take effect are met as a result of an
action in a public message, the author of the message SHALL make it take
effect in that message.
[Campaign Proposals need to meet two requirements in order to take effect:
their author must win the election and they must pass. The former is what
ties
them to the election and allows candidates to safely submit conflicting
proposals. The latter is the safety guard (reinforced by rule 106 which
prevents non-adopted proposals from taking effect) to ensure that a
candidate can
This also means that voters can vote on the Campaign Proposals based on
whether or not they would be okay with the rule changes, knowing that
the actual choice of which one takes effect is dictated by the election
outcome.
Requiring them to take effect by announcement is a safety guard to
ensure that they don't take effect with no one noticing. In practice,
the Assessor will nearly always do this in the same message as resolving
the decision (and the poll, if applicable), however.]
[snip]
Amend rule 2154 (Election Procedure) to read as follows:
A player CAN initiate an election for a specified office:
a) With 2 Support, if either the office is interim or the
most recent election for that office was resolved more
than 90 days prior, and provided that the initiator
becomes a candidate in the same message.
b) By announcement, if e is the ADoP and if the office is
interim, or if e is the holder of that office.
The above notwithstanding, an election for an office CANNOT be
initiated if one is already in progress.
[This cleans up when elections can start. Basically, anyone can
challenge the existing officer if they are interim or if they have been
in their office for a long time; the ADoP can open an election for an
office that needs one; and the current officer can always open
competition for the office.]
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. An election is contested if it
has
two or more candidates at the end of the nomination period, and uncontested
otherwise. For a contested election, nominations close at the end of the
poll's voting period. For an uncontested election, nominations close at the
end of the nomination period.
[Players must explicitly opt-in to become candidates, and can do so up until
the winner is locked in, effectively.]
When an election is initiated, it enters the nomination period,
which lasts for 7 days. In a timely fashion after the nomination
period ends, the ADoP CAN and SHALL, in the same message:
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 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.
2) Distribute all pending Campaign Proposals associated
with the election.
3) If POSSIBLE per the following paragraph, end the election
immediately.
[After the nomination period, the ADoP kicks off the election by both
starting
the election poll (if needed) and distributing its Campaign Proposals. The
Assessor is the vote collector for the poll because that seemed less invasive
than forcing the ADoP to be vote collector for the proposals.]
If at any point an uncontested election has a single candidate, and that
candidate either is not the author of a Committed Campaign Proposal for that
election or that proposal was adopted, then any player CAN declare them the
winner of the election by announcement. If at any point an uncontested
election has no candidates, or a single candidate who is the author of a
failed Committed Campaign Proposal for that election, then any player CAN
declare the election ended with no winner by announcement. The Assessor
SHALL
do one or the other in the same message in which e resolves a decision to
adopt a Campaign Proposal for an ongoing uncontested election.
[This paragraph is a bit of a doozy, but basically it means that uncontested
elections work the way you think: if there are no candidates, they end, and
if
there is only won, they win. The complexity comes from the fact that if the
one
candidate has a Committed Proposal, then things must wait until it concludes,
although they can flip it to Uncommitted and then end the election
themselves.
No provision is made for contested elections where all but one candidate has
dropped out, since I didn't want to have to write rules to allow cancellation
of Agoran decisions.]
A poll CANNOT be resolved until the decisions to adopt all associated
Campaign
Proposals are resolved. When resolving the poll, if a given candidate
authored
one of the associated Campaign Proposals, that proposal is Committed, and it
was not adopted, then that player is disqualified.
[This provides that a player with a Committed proposal that failed is
not permitted to win the election, as part the intent of Commitment.]
When the poll is resolved, its outcome, if a player, wins the election. When
a player wins an election, e is installed into the associated office and the
election ends.
[snip]
