Benjamin Caplan wrote: > Aaron Goldfein wrote: >> Proposal: An Election Issue (AI = 2, II = 1) >> >> In Rule 2154 (Election Procedure), immediately after the sentence reading: >> >> The set of candidates can change after the decision is >> initiated. >> >> add the following sentence: >> >> If the number of candidates falls below two, PRESENT ceases to >> be a valid option. >> >> End Proposal >> >> I intend, without objection, to make the above proposal Distributable. > > Something non-quorum-reducing should happen to already-cast PRESENT > votes when the number of candidates falls below two. Or is that not a > problem? No, because the IADoP will just end the election by announcement. The problem is that e cannot, as PRESENT is an option and as such there are still two options.
Better would be to reword the rules allowing early ending of decisions to not count PRESENT, or to generally allow PRESENT for all Agoran Decisions and have it not count as an actual option for counts, etc.
