comex wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Benjamin Caplan wrote: >> Does it have to be exactly one /natural person/? Or can the vote >> collector be "the IADoP"? > > The IADoP is a natural person (or undefined)-- the vote collector > could, I suppose, theoretically be the *office* of IADoP, but that's > definitely not a solution-- it's not a person and the holder can't act > on behalf of it.
Oh come on. We assign powers and responsibilities to offices all the time, and we've never required offices to be persons for it to work before now. It makes perfect sense for the vote collector to be the office, with all the consequent implications regarding officeholders, deputisation, and vacancy.