spoon-business: Judment on RFJ 20

[zagarna <zagarna@xxxxxxxxx>]

In the matter:

Alterations to Active Proposals or Motions which are not recognised by the start
of an nweek's voting do not alter any Ballot Issues.

I rule:
FALSE

Reasoning:
< Rule 201/0 : The Ballot > 
The Administrator shall, prior to the close of voting each nweek, distribute to
all Players the Ballot for that nweek.
Each nweek's Ballot shall list all Ballot Issues for the nweek. 
< / Rule 201/0 >

< Rule 202/0 : Ballot Issues > 
The following become Ballot Issues at the start of a nweek's voting: 

1. Proposals then active 
2. Motions requiring a vote introduced since the previous nweek's voting 
3. Elections to replace elected Officers whose terms expire that nweek 
4. Elections to fill vacant elected Offices
< / rule 202/0 >

< Rule 220/0 : Recognition of Proposals > 
The Administrator shall, within a reasonable time after receiving a new or
revised Proposal, assign it a serial number. Proposals and their revisions are
not officially recognized until assigned a serial number.
< / Rule220/0 >

< Rule 221/0 : Proposal Submission and Alteration >
An Agent may submit a new Proposal whenever e owns fewer than ten live Proposals
and has submitted fewer than ten new Proposals that day. The Agent who submits a
Proposal is its owner. Only the owner of a Proposal may alter it, but only if
the Proposal is both live and not on the nweek's Ballot. The owner of a live
Proposal not on the nweek's ballot may alter its title or text, activate it if
it is inactive, deactivate it if it is active, or withdraw it from
consideration. Only the owner may take such action.
< / Rule 221/0>

For a proposal to be amended it must not be on the Ballot, if a proposal is on
the Ballot it may not be amended. There seems to be a minor unconistency here
between the Ballot ( which I take it to be the list of all Ballot issues posted
by the admin ) and the property of proposals to be a Ballot issues.
At the start of an nweek's voting period all live proposals become automatically
Ballot issues, but they are not on the Ballot until the administrator posts it.
So the administrator CAN decide to recognize a proposal alteration after the
official start of the nweek's voting period and then post the Ballot, containing
the alterated proposal. Therefore I rule the statement to be FALSE and since I
am such a good judge that I deserve a win.

Judicial orders:
1) The administrator shall credit the player Zagarna 500 points.

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