Subject: Ackanomic Voting Digest V2 #27
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Ackanomic Voting Digest    Wednesday, April 2 1997    Volume 02 : Number 027

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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 00:06:31 -0600
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1895

Proposal 1895
Paranormalicicity
Vynd

This is a Modest proposal

[The current rules on the W-File Pair don't mesh very well with the rules
on telepathy and telekinesis right now.  Their alien sedative probably
wouldn't remove telepathic or telekinetic powers since neither is actualy 
defined as a Paranormal Power in and of itself.  Hence this tinkering.  I 
know it reads kind of awkwardly, but I had to work it so the bit about
the weather ballons still fit :)]

Ammend Rule 1117 by deleting the last paragraph and replacing it with the
following:

So long as a player has the ability to use telepathy and/or telekinesis,
she may make as many uses of it as she likes.  However, telepathy and
telekinesis are Paranormal Powers.  However, if a player uses either
telepathy or telekinesis it is not treated as a use of a Paranormal Power 
unless she has already used that same power within the last 17 days (408
hours).  It's just considered to be another wind sheared weather balloon
and it is good form for senators to publicly deny everything about the
incident.  If, however, the player uses telepathy or telekinesis twice in
a 17 day (408) hour period, then the player will be treated as having used
that Paranormal Power.  This paragraph takes precedence over Rule 261
Dealing with the Paranormal.

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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 00:19:34 -0600
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1896

Proposal 1896
No Sanctuary
Mohammed

This is a Modest Proposal.

Repeal Rule 1315 (Church Sanctuary).

[Now that you can take the altar by the horns, Sanctuary is no fun.]

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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 12:02:47 -0600
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1897

Proposal 1897
Honoring All Fool's Day
breadbox

This is a Modest proposal.

Replace the text of Rule 207.2 ["That's just silly"] with the following:

If an accepted proposal contains the phrase "cows eat grass", then the
player who submitted the proposal is said to be silly, and shall score
5 points. However, if the proposal was also distributed by the
Promoter on April First (All Fool's Day), the player is instead said
to be foolish, and shall score 10 points.

{{[Remember that even if Mohammed distributes this today and it is
accepted, it will not apply to itself (though it might apply to other
proposals distributed after me).]}}

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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 17:39:51 -0600
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1898

Proposal 1898
Zombie
Mohammed

A new Rule is created in the Party Chess Rule Suite, titled "Party
Chess Piece Zombie", and reading:

- ---
A Zombie is a piece with a material value of 4, represented by the
character Z.

A Zombie can move up to three spaces horizontally or vertically.  At
the end of a turn in which a Zombie Captures, it promotes to the type
of the piece it captured, if the Swinger specifies this when
announcing the Capture.
- ---

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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 23:26:57 -0600
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1866 accepted (Striking a Blow for Democracy)

Proposal 1866
Striking a Blow for Democracy
IdiotBoy

Votes cast by active players:  14 / 19 = 73.684211%
Yes:  10    No:  5     Present:  1   ...Proposal accepted.

YES votes:
	You can call me Al
	IdiotBoy
	Bascule
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Narf
	fnord
	Calvin N Hobbes
	Niccolo Flychuck's Bonus Vote
	Vynd

NO votes:
	mr cwm
	breadbox
	ThinMan
	Mohammed
	Malenkai

PRESENT votes:
	Robert Sevin

Active players who did not vote:
	Ackers
	Jammer
	snowgod
	Red Barn
	Techno

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 1866
Striking a Blow for Democracy
IdiotBoy
Tue Mar 25 17:03:24 1997

Amend Rule 106 by replacing the following text (delimitted by %%):

%%
The required number of YES votes for a proposal to be accepted is two-thirds
of the total number of YES and NO votes legally cast within the prescribed
voting period. If that value is 0, however, the required number of YES votes
for acceptance is 1. 
%%

with the following text (delimited by //):

//
The required number of YES votes for a proposal to be accepted is
three-fifths of the total number of YES and NO votes legally cast within the
prescribed voting period. If that value is 0, however, the required number
of YES votes for acceptance is 1. 
//

{{[Finally got around to making this change I've wanted for a long time.]}}

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