> On Jan 18, 2020, at 8:34 PM, Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Proposal: Zombie voting package (AI=3)
> {{{
> Amend Rule 683 (Voting on Agoran Decisions) by appending the following
> paragraph:
> {{
> The above notwithstanding, at the end of the voting period for an Agoran
> decision, prior to the evaluation of conditionals, each entity who has
> never submitted a valid ballot for that decision, and for whom the Rules
> provide a default vote for that decision, automatically submits a valid
> vote on that decision for eir default vote. A ballot cast this way is
> called a default ballot. Providing an entity with a default vote on an
> Agoran decision is secured with power threshold 2.
> }}
>
> [We do not think that the "never submitted" condition is too onerous on the
> Assessor as e will be going through all the votes anyway.
>
> We would even go with "never attempted to", but we suspect that might lead
> to too much litigation, particularly because the easiest way to try and
> fail is a NttPF.]
>
> Amend Rule 955 (Determining the Will of Agora) by replacing "If there is
> more than one option, and the number of voters is less than the quorum of
> that decision, the outcome is instead FAILED QUORUM." with "If there is
> more than one option, and the number of voters who cast valid non-default
> ballots on that decision is less than its quorum, the outcome is instead
> FAILED QUORUM. An entity is excluded from the count of voters for this
> purpose if it was, at the end of the voting period, designated
> quorum-ineligible by rules of power 2 or greater."
Might be worth clarifying that explicitly casting a ballot identical to one’s
default vote does count for quorum.
Also, meta-commentary: for changes this long, IMO the proposal would be easier
to read if it were written something like this (and word-wrapped properly):
Amend Rule 955 (Determining the Will of Agora) by replacing: {
If there is
more than one option, and the number of voters is less than the quorum of
that decision, the outcome is instead FAILED QUORUM. }
with: {
If there is
more than one option, and the number of voters who cast valid non-default
ballots on that decision is less than its quorum, the outcome is instead
FAILED QUORUM. An entity is excluded from the count of voters for this
purpose if it was, at the end of the voting period, designated
quorum-ineligible by rules of power 2 or greater. }
This way, it’s a lot easier to quickly scan the text and find the start and end
of the relevant sections, and compare the two sections.
Gaelan
>
> Amend Rule 879 (Quorum) by replacing "If no other rule defines the quorum
> of an Agoran Decision, the quorum for that decision is equal to 2/3 of the
> number of voters on the Agoran Decision to adopt a proposal that had been
> most recently resolved at the time of that decision's initiation, the whole
> rounded to the nearest integer (breaking ties upward)." with "The Activity
> Level is equal to 2/3, rounded to the nearest integer and breaking ties
> upward, of the number of voters counted towards the quorum of the most
> recently-resolved Agoran decision to adopt a proposal. If no other rules
> define the quorum of an Agoran decision, then the quorum of that decision
> is equal to the Activity Level at the time if its initiation."
>
> Enact a new power-2 rule entitled "Zombie Voting" reading as follows:
> {{
> A zombie has its voting strength halved.
>
> The default vote of a zombie is to endorse eir master.
>
> Zombies are not quorum-eligible.
> }}
> }}}
>
> -Alexis
