On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, Aris Merchant wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 21 Dec 2017, Ørjan Johansen wrote: > >> On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, ATMunn wrote: > >> > >> > actually, crap. If there's no Assessor, then unless only one person runs > >> > for > >> > the office, there will be no way to resolve it. > >> > >> How doesn't deputization work? > > > > Hmm. It's generally accepted that a Deputy gains an office an "instant" > > *after* e deputises for the job, I think? So if someone other than the > > election winner deputises to resolve the election, who gets it? > > CFJ 2400 states that deputization works "as if" the deputizer gained > the office immediately before deputization. CFJ 3462 (my first case) > mentions in dicta that the deputizer "actually" takes office after > normal deputization, and this appears to be the closest we have to an > accepted precedent on the matter.
Also to keep in mind is when the winner takes office, which is presumably an instant "after" the result is announced? (Of course, there are other duties a deputy could deputize to do first - at least one proposal hasn't been resolved yet - but where's the fun in that?)
