Census Bureau of Atlasia: Homelycooking, Registrar General

[homelycooking]

Celebrating two full years of service to Atlasia as RG in hope of many more to come.

[homelycooking]

Well, I have kept my word. Having been found by the Supreme Court to have unconstitutionally deregistered more than 10% of the Atlasian voter list, I resigned just a moment ago as a way of apologizing for my actions, and I do not intend to return to the post for the foreseeable future.  

[homelycooking]

Goddammit. Besides making Atlasia worse off, what purpose did that lawsuit serve? Now we will just sit around and wait for those voters to miss yet another election and then get deregistered. And well be down our SoFE.

I do not intend to resign as SoFE.

[homelycooking]

Please don't blame Inks for any part of this affair. He was entirely within his right as an Atlasian citizen to bring a case against me when he perceived an action taken by the RG to be unconstitutional and, to his credit, he produced the more compelling argument in the eyes of the Court.

[homelycooking]

If the case were purely a syntactic dispute, Inks, then I think I might have looked rather silly in defending my actions as RG. However, the Supreme Court did acknowledge that the relevant portion of the Constitution "suffers from ambiguous language and hamfisted writing" but didn't do much to resolve any of those ambiguities in a way that provides the RG with clear interpretational guidelines.

[homelycooking]

If the case were purely a syntactic dispute, Inks, then I think I might have looked rather silly in defending my actions as RG. However, the Supreme Court did acknowledge that the relevant portion of the Constitution "suffers from ambiguous language and hamfisted writing" but didn't do much to resolve any of those ambiguities in a way that provides the RG with clear interpretational guidelines.

No offense, but your argument was not at all convincing.  I've never seen someone interpret "the" to mean "any".  Why on earth would the drafters put in clause 1 if it wasn't intended to be read in conjunction with clause 2?

Oh, I don't disagree. It really wasn't possible to twist the "the said voter" clause to my advantage. My argument had to rely on my conviction that the "six months" standard was not enforceable. The court disagreed, evidently.

[homelycooking]

Lack of enforceability doesn't mean you can ignore it though.  And I don't see how it's not enforceable.  Look - I don't want to get into a fight over this, but I think it's unfair that I'm getting criticized over this.  I told you to stay on.  It was 100% your choice to ignore the law (which you now admit you did because it was "not enforceable", and it was 100% your choice to resign.

It is unfair that you are being criticized; you did not tell me to stay on (though you expressed a hope that I would); and I agree completely that my actions were entirely a matter of my own choices made as RG.

All this belongs to the past - your argument has triumphed, perhaps rightly so, and I concede defeat. If there's nothing more to be said by either of us on this matter, then, let us move on.