[Nomic] Proposals (Creation of the Ministry)

[Adam Biltcliffe]

On Sep 26 2004, Stuart Moore wrote:

> David (Birch) wrote:
> > Change your vote to "no" - it doesn't retcart the proposal, but it 
> > means it can't be passed. (Oh, if I voted yes on that, which I don't 
> > think I did, I change it to no.)
> 
> This is certainly true for anyone except the proposer. For the proposer 
> himself, I'm not so sure

Nup. The proposer technically has no say on eir own proposal, but since e 
is the only one who can issue a Notice of Consensus on it, e actually has 
the ability to prevent it passing anyway. However, for anyone else, there 
is *no* way to retract your vote. Rule 4, Consensus of Opinion simply says 
you have to obtain consent from each voting entity. It says nothing about 
this consent being invalidated by later retractions. (I note that this is 
another point in which your interpretation of the rules in implementing the 
AutoNomic appears to differ from what they actually say.)

adam