Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Election cycle

[Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion]

On 5/23/2021 2:21 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 4:12 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-business
> <agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote:
>>
>>       After the nomination period ends, the ADoP (or, if the office is
>>       the ADoP, the Assessor) 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 (or, if the office
>>          is the ADoP, the Assessor), 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.
>>
> 
> The second sentence in (1) has an uncomfortably large complexity,
> arising in large part from the two parentheticals. Not sure if there's
> something that can be done to make that a bit more legible.

Yah, I had a little struggle with that sentence.  The only thing I
actually added was the Assessor parenthetical - I think the list of
decision properties is pretty much required boilerplate.

I thought about breaking out a definition "the Election Monitor is the
ADoP, or the Assessor if the office is ADoP" and then saying "the Election
Monitor is the vote collector" but making a one-off definition separated
from its single contextual use seemed worse?