Michael Slone wrote: >By rule 107 (b), the notice initiating an Agoran decision must give a >``description of the class of eligible voters sufficient to enable >public agreement on which persons are eligible''. Therefore, the >class of eligible voters is set when the decision is initiated and >cannot be changed unless specific rules permit it.
I'm not at all convinced by that reading. A class description, such as "the active players", can be interpreted at many different times, such as when a ballot is cast and at the end of the voting period, and in each case be sufficient for public agreement. R107 does not say that the publicly-agreed set of eligible persons must be the same at all times. The remainder of your argument falls if your initial interpretation of R107 falls. But it does highlight that the other rules appear to have been written with the assumption that there is exactly one set of eligible voters per decision. I note, in passing, that we don't in practice require the notice defined by R107 to be explicit. In the past four months that I've been registered, not a single proposal distribution has explicated the set of eligible voters or the identity of the vote collector, nor contained any formula explicating intent to initiate an Agoran decision. -zefram
