Atlas Forum Supreme Court Case: Akno21 vs. Fritz

[Niles Caulder]

Your reliable Forum technocrat diligently points out:

Shouldn't this lawsuit be directed at  the Secretary of Forum Affairs for counting the ballots, rather than the voters who cast them?

[Niles Caulder]

I'd love to be a court observer if possible, but obviously priority must be given to participants.

But isn't conducting the case on this thread a better option?  It's already officially titled, and the Plaintiff and Respondent can make written submissions of their arguments here.  The jurists can then ask questions of them if they so desire, but really the whole kit-n-kaboodle wouldn't take that long, certainly less than a week.

(The Jurists can still deliberate in private to determine their consensus, and that will simplify the scheduling even further!)

And then the legal decisions (majority and dissenting, if any) can be posted here.

(If I have to vote in public for every Fantasy citizen to see, I want Supreme Court Cases on record!)

[Niles Caulder]

Fellow citizens of the Atlas Forum, after carefully considering the evidence and testimony of all sides, the Atlas Forum Supreme Court comes to the following decision:

NixonNow's vote merged the names of RReagan4EVER and MAS 117.  He did not put any qualifiers next to the name, for example: (UAC-NJ).  Therefore, we do not believe it is clear to tell who he voted for.  For any vote to be valid, there must be no doubt as to the intent of the voter.  Accepting such a confusing vote as valid would set a bad precedent for the future of Atlas Forum elections.

We therefore reverse Secretary of Forum Affairs Fritz's ruling, and declare NixonNow's vote invalid.

-Atlas Forum Chief Justice KEmperor writing for the majority, Justices MAS117 and Nym90 concurring.

I would like to thank the Court for conducting this proceeding in the public eye, and believe it to be an important statement to the Citizens of Atlasia that their government works for them.  Proponants on all sides of the issue represented themselves well, and the jurists insured an strict tone of gravity warranted by these affairs.

Congratulations to Senator Akno...and best wishes to candidate RReagan4Ever in his future endeavors.