I understand this is your position but I want to know why it is your position.
A vote lasts a certain number of days, during which it can be changed by the one who cast it. Once the vote closes however, the vote is locked. Then the Speaker counts the votes. I find it helpful to consider why that works the way it does.
This isn’t our job, this isn’t the real world, so we give time for people to participate. And since the vote is open and not final until it closes, people can change their vote as they see fit. In a real world setting this period would be something smaller, for instance in the US House the vote may be 15 minutes. But functionally it works the same. Unlike the real world though, here people can easily lose their ability to vote by losing citizenship. In the real world when that happens you cannot vote at all; if somehow a vote were cast and received and that was the case, the person would obviously not have the vote counted. In some places you have to be registered and you have to have a signature that matches. If that status changes or the signature doesn’t match, the vote can be discounted. This can be misused and abused, of course, which is why people are wary in these situations.
But consider the simple logic: why would someone who is legitimately not a part of the body making the decision get a say in that decision? If someone casts a vote on Monday and loses citizenship on Wednesday, but the vote closed on Tuesday, obviously it counts. But if the vote closed on Thursday, why should it still count? Someone who casts a vote but then loses citizenship can only lose that citizenship for a few reasons: the Court said so, their nation ceased to exist, or it was discovered that they had citizenship in error in the first place, either due to a mistake on the part of someone in the citizenship process, or due to trickery on the part of the applicant. It strikes me that all of these scenarios are reasonable causes for a loss of citizenship, and in most cases I would strongly prefer the vote of the person not be counted. So then why do you believe they have some sort of right to be counted anyway?
