Call for Judgment: Ballots are for Plans, not Drafters
For all edits to the gamestate tracking page for all Drafter’s Ballots from the beginning of this dynasty to this enactment, treat each allocation of a whole number to a named Drafter as an allocation of that same whole number to that Drafter’s Plan.
In the rule “Ranked Choice”, insert the following as the second paragraph:
For each Drafter’s Ballot, the allocation of a whole number to a Plan may be represented in gamestate tracking as an allocation of that same whole number to the name of the Drafter who authored that Plan.
We’ve been using Drafter names in Ballots this whole time, and one could argue that all of the Ballot edits submitted since the beginning were invalid, because they were allocated per Drafter name rather than per Plan name as spelled out by the rule text.
Rather than redo the gamestate tracking page and force everyone to redo their Ballots, let’s just make this interchangeable.
This may seem trivial, but I don’t want ais to get to the point of performing the Instant Runoff and then suddenly not be able to execute the steps because the gamestate doesn’t show the allocation of whole numbers to Plans.
I suppose, out of an abundance of caution.
Josh: he/they
I think that, at worst, this is a gamestate tracking issue that can be fixed by simply correcting the source.