On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, comex wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > In other words, if you merely allude to something that may or may > > not exist (rather than acknowledging something that does exist), > > you may be referring to it, but you're not "clearly identifying" it, > > therefore not voting. > > This implies that blanket votes are generally ineffective. *shrug*
Well, the current jurisprudence is that they're effective as an administrative convenience, as long as they can be mapped onto a clear and unambiguous set of individual votes (and therefore, in a strict legal sense, that they identify every member of that set). I know I used this sort of logic in CFJ 2316 (that's the first CFJ that comes to mind). -G.
