On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, comex wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Benjamin > Caplan<celestialcognit...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > From R1006: 'An officer is the holder of an office, who may be > referred to by the name of that office.' When an office is vacant, > there is nobody who has its powers (except at the moment of > deputisation). This wouldn't be problematic except for the > requirement that there be exactly one vote collector.
It's not actually a problem *now*. When I announced the start of the election, it was a "problem" because it made the vote collector default to me. Now that coppro has assumed the Office, all works again and the Decision can continue... the Notice was correct at the time and so initiated the Decision, and the information has changed and coppro can complete it. (This is, of course, assuming that we are ignoring ais523's judgement to the contrary, which remains unappealed). -G.
