RE: spoon-discuss: RE: spoon-business: NWEEK 15 RESULTS

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/20/02 at 10:38 AM Gavin Doig wrote:

>> R33: "Whenever one section of a rule conflicts with
>> another section of the same rule, the section which
>> appears later in the rule takes precedence over the
>> earlier section."
>>
>> The two rule sections, "after the votes on all proposals
>> voted on..." and the veto stuff, are both in r32.  The
>> veto stuff comes after the other one.
>>
>Yes. So what?
>
>When the votes are counted, the first part fires. At that point, there is
>no veto, so the proosal passes, and it's changes are applied. When the
>Admin vetoes it, that does indeed take precedence over the passage, so it
>is deemed to have failed. But the changes have already been committed, and
>r204 says you can't roll them back. If the Admin had tried to veto it
>before the counting (say, if when he sent that message to spoon-discuss
>he'd sent it (or at least the veto part) to spoon-business), it would have
>worked fine.
>
>uin.

R204 comes after r32, so r32 takes precedence.  That means, even if r204 says something can't happen, if r32 says it does happen, it happens.

						Glotmorf