[s-b] Fixing Emergencies

["Craig Daniel" <teucer@xxxxxxxxx>]

I submit the following proposal, entitled "Notification of All PEPs":

{In rule 4e0, replace the string:
{3. The Emergency Coordinator shall designate a means for PEPs to
communicate as the Emergency Forum and make a reasonable effort to
notify other PEPs about the Forum's existence. If the Emergency
Coordinator fails to do either of these within 24 hours, any PEP can
designate an Emergency Forum if he notifies the other PEPs of its
existence. The Emergency Forum must be reasonably accessible to all
PEPs.}
with the string:
{3. The Emergency Coordinator shall designate a means for PEPs to
communicate as the Emergency Forum and make a reasonable effort to
notify all other PEPs about the Forum's existence. If the Emergency
Coordinator fails to do either of these within 24 hours, any PEP can
designate an Emergency Forum if he notifies the other PEPs of its
existence. The Emergency Forum must be reasonably accessible to all
PEPs. Posting about the Emergency Forum on all official discussion and
public fora is considered a sufficient effort.}}

Note that posting to public and discussion fora is only possible if
they are operational; other means will still be needed if they aren't.

I further submit the following proposal, entitled "Abandon
Non-Monotonic RP Voting":

{In rule 4e0, replace the string:
{8. When the value of the Pause is 7, any PEP can, and the Emergency
Coordinator shall, tally the votes in the following manner:
- All Ballots are counted as one vote for the top choice given that
has not been eliminated. If all ranked candidates on a Ballot have
been eliminated, that Ballot is discarded and not counted in future
rounds of voting.
- If a Refresh Proposal holds a majority of the votes, that Refresh
Proposal is selected and the Procedure moves to Step 9.
- If not, The Refresh Proposal with the fewest votes is eliminated. In
case of a tie for having the fewest votes, one RP is selected at
random from among the tied options and eliminated.}
with the string:
{8. When the value of the Pause is 7, any PEP can, and the Emergency
Coordinator shall, tally the ballots using the Ranked Pairs
algorithm.}}

It's hard to give a quick non-clumsy explanation of Ranked Pairs, but
http://condorcet.org/rp/intro.shtml does a pretty good job. I'd prefer
to summarize it in a couple self-sufficient lines as we do our current
system instead.

 - teucer
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