I come before you to propose what I believe is a much needed amendment to the Elections Act.
In addition to cleaning up some textual ambiguity around the distinction between the first and second rounds of the Delegate election, this amendment would limit voting in the gameside round of the Delegate election to members whose WA nation is located in TSP when nominations open (or deployed members of the SPSF). We already impose a similar limitation upon forum-side voting, namely that only members who were citizens when nominations open can vote in forum-side elections. This rule is designed to prevent vote importation and manipulation, but is woefully inadequate with respect to to the Delegate election without a concomitant limitation on gameside voting. It is far easier to import votes gameside, where there is no requirement of CitComm review before one is eligible to vote. Thus, under our current system, the potential for manipulation of our Delegate election is a substantial security vulnerability. I urge the Assembly to address it swiftly.
Edit: As a technical matter, I understand that it is possible to generate a list of WA nations in the region at a given moment. To effectuate this amendment, the EC would generate and post that list at the beginning of nominations, which would constitute the set of “eligible voters” in the gameside round. Then it would simply be a matter of excluding votes cast by nations that don’t appear on that list.
How will you monitor (4) 4? It seems to me to be tedious work with a danger of being proposed back to the way it was before due to how tedious it is to manage.
I imagine it might be best to change this to “at the moment the nominations period…”? Otherwise “before” is a very long and unclear period of time.
See this point above. It should be relatively easy to automate with some spreadsheet lookups. And I understand that our current EC is an Excel guru.
A good point. Interestingly enough, this language was copied from the provision limiting voting in forum-side elections to those who were citizens before the election begins. So we should make the change to both for consistency. I’ll implement these edits momentarily.
I don’t think it’s any more tedious than the bookkeeping that we already do with limiting voting to citizens accepted by the time each election starts. It’s probably less tedious, actually, since there’s less to think about; we have to maintain multiple lists of citizens but there’s only one authoritative list of WA member nations currently in our region.