Query to the Speaker

falapatorius

falapatorius

TNPer
I posted this in another forum and got this response , but I had a follow-up question and didn't want to use that thread for other than what it was intended.

Anyway, I'm hoping the Speaker can allay my concern arising from this issue.

It's now known there was some recent clerical errors in updating/trimming the citizenship rolls. It happens. My concern is that these errors might have affected quorum on recent votes. I didn't tally the amount of 'legislatively active' citizens at the time I noticed that I was was listed as not active. Basically, I'm wondering if quorum (which is affected by the number of legislatively active citizens) might have been miscalculated, and might have had a subsequent effect on recent RA votes' quorum requirements.

I'm not trying to start any drama, nor am I blaming anyone. In all likelihood, the votes were conducted properly and fairly, but I'm hoping the Speaker can clarify this issue (my apologies for the extra workload) and quell my uneasiness.
 
It is a legitimate concern.

The error was introduced when the rolls were updated to reflect the changes to quorum rules by the Quorum Reduction Bill. Since then, there have been 4 votes. Two failed, and so the calculation of quorum was irrelevant to the outcome. Two passed, one with 37 votes and one with 33.

Immediately after the quorum reduction bill was passed, quorum was 27. Currently, quorum is 13, indicating that quorum has generally been falling due to the summer slump. At the time the error was noticed, the quorum calculated by the sheet was 11. The error is such that for every three citizens who was legislatively active at the time of the removal, quorum would be miscalculated to be one lower than it actually was. However, for every three new citizens added, quorum would be calculated to be one higher. Given these facts, I think it is highly unlikely that either bill that passed would have failed due to quorum, had it been calculated correctly.

It is virtually impossible to find out for certain what the exact quorum requirement during the two votes that passed actually was at the time, due to poor record keeping during that period. However, by my reckoning, it is virtually impossible that the miscalculation of quorum resulted in any votes passing that should have failed.
 
It looks like on August 13th, after the error had been corrected (and your status was displayed as legislatively active, I will add), Google "upgraded" the rolls to the new version of google sheets, which caused one of the formulas to break - essentially, it only counted "aye" votes for purposes of legislative activity. You can imagine my annoyance. I have modified the formula to work with the new version of google sheets, and do not anticipate any further problems. There have been no legislative votes since the 13th, so it would be impossible for any vote counting mistakes to have occurred. Quorum is currently 12.

I have inspected the rest of the rolls and have found all other formulas to be working as intended.
 
The upgrade also broke a couple a few other scripts that draw data from the citizenship registry. Most are unrelated to the Speaker's Office, the exception being the script tracking the forum posting activity, which has been logging incorrect data for the days of August 14-19th. I have now fixed the script, and the records for August 20th will be back to normal.

This will affect citizenship removals that would normally occur between September 13-18th. I'll discuss with the Speaker about how to best ameliorate the issue. It will be a transient effect, so outside of those days citizenship removals will work normally.
 
You say "scripts broke".

I say "Google knows what you want scripts to do better than you do, plus it's smarter and cooler than you are."

You're making a mistake, interfering with Google's grand vision for you! There will be Consequences!
 
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