Proto: Clarify nomination period
(AI = 2)
Amend Rule 2154 (Election Procedure) to read:
A player CAN initiate an election for a specified elected office:
a) with 2 support, if either the office is interim or the most
recent election for that office was resolved more than 90 days
prior, and provided that the initiator becomes a candidate in
the same message.
b) By announcement, if e is the ADoP and if the office is interim,
or if e is the holder of that office.
The above notwithstanding, an election for an office CANNOT be
initiated if one is already in progress.
When an election is initiated, it enters the nomination period,
which lasts for 4 days. During the nomination period, any player
CAN become a candidate by announcement, and any candidate CAN
cease to be a candidate by announcement if there is at least one
other candidate.
After the nomination period, any player CAN still become a
candidate by announcement until the end of the election or the
end of the voting period, whichever comes first.
A candidate ceases to be a candidate if e ceases to be a player
during the election, or if holding the office would make em
Overpowered.
An election whose nomination period is complete is contested if it
has two or more candidates, and uncontested otherwise.
If at any point an uncontested election has a single candidate,
then any player CAN by announcement declare em the winner of the
election, thereby causing em to win the election. If at any point
an uncontested election has no candidates, then any player CAN
declare the election ended with no winner by announcement.
After the nomination period ends, the ADoP CAN and, in a timely
fashion, SHALL:
1) If the election is contested, initiate an Agoran decision to
select the winner of the election (the poll). For this
decision, the Vote Collector is the ADoP, the valid options are
the candidates for that election (including those who become
candidates after its initiation), and the voting method is
instant runoff. When the poll is resolved, its outcome, if a
player, wins the election. If the outcome is not a player, the
election ends with no winner.
2) If the election is uncontested, end the election as described
above.
When a player wins an election, e is installed into the associated
office and the election ends.
[Allowing players to become candidates after the "nomination period" is
confusing; it's more like a "nomination-only period". This would at
least separate becoming / ceasing to be a candidate into "during the
nominating period", then "after the nominating period", then "also any
time due to deregistration or Overpowering".]
