[danielheath]

It clearly ends "In the opinion of the secretary of the state".

The beautiful thing about legislation (unlike computer code) is you can shell out to a human judgement call.

[bonoboTP]

Based on reading this thread, CS education should have a few required lectures on "ways in which the real world isn't run like a computer". (Non-CS people have the opposite problem, and don't understand that a small bubble called computing operates the way it does.)

[consteval]

I agree. CS people are hyper-fixated on rules and processes, to the point where they forget humans exist.

The rules being bendy is a very good thing, because then we can leverage the power of these meat sacks between our ears to come to a conclusion. Not everything needs to be an algorithm, thank God.

[hnfong]

Getting a law degree helps! (speaking from experience...)