coppro wrote: > Ed Murphy wrote: >> Detail: http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/viewcase.php?cfj=2528 >> >> ============================== CFJ 2528 ============================== >> >> On or about Sat, 16 May 2009 20:15:44 -0500, Yally resolved the >> Agoran decision to decide the holder of the IADoP office. >> >> ======================================================================== > > This is ugly. I cannot see any reason why e would have resolved that > election, /nor any reason that this or any election recently started > ever happened/. This is due to R478 requiring that an action by > announcement be performed by "unambiguously and clearly specifying the > action and announcing that e performs it". Yally did not unambiguously > and clearly specify that e ended was ending the voting period for the > IADoP election, but /no one has, in recent history, ever stated to have > explicitly initiated an election/. > > Further arguments welcome.
Announcements are not generally required to be explicit, e.g. "FOR" is routinely accepted as a gloss for "I vote FOR the decision on whether to adopt the above-indicated proposal". Also, announcements claiming to resolve decisions are self-ratifying.
