Well, Leon has accurately represented what I told him, although I fail to see how this is a "barrier to trade" in the CDS.
The underlying issue is that, whether we have means to determine it or not, the absolute and underlying principle in the CDS is "one person/one vote"... a "person" being one RL human entity. Of course this can be easily disguised! And hundreds of pages have been written in this forum and its predecessor regarding this issue. Bottom line, I feel, is that if using two alts you represent yourself as two different RL entities, you are subject to immediate ejection should this be discovered and proven. (I made up that penalty on the spot 
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Next issue. How do we administer this? One might easily say: "Oh, Sudane! Just call my avie Leon the citizen and Tom the non-citizen! No problem!"
Well, *sigh*.... We have established that citizenship is equated with land ownership. We started off with a direct corrolation... the individual owned the land... plain and simple. (We used groups then, but that was an SL requirement... the intent of the group was ONLY to stand as proxy for the individual). If I kept a list of citizens, I could correlate each parcel with its citizen owner. As we expanded in number, my spreadsheet could still keep up.
Then we said... "Oh, now you don't need to own a specific piece of land, only belong to a group with enough land to qualify the members of the group to be citizens." Well, now my correlation between parcel and owner falls apart. If I have a list of citizens from whom i must collect the monthly fee, that list no longer corresponds to the monthly fees that must be paid, since only one of those citizens can pay the fee for that group's land. Further, i have to keep track of the size of the parcel, to determine how many person's that parcel qualifies for citizenship, since any group *can* have any number of members.
And... (there's more!) The covenants set limits on the amount of land that any *one individual* may own. But, now individuals can be qualified as citizens by virtue of their membership in groups. So, the amount of land (or the number of parcels within the city walls) that a group can hold is a dependency of the number of citizens that the group qualifies, which, circularly, depends on amount of land that the group holds.
And... more! Diderot points out that he has purchased land owned by his company, under the provisions of a bill passed early last year enabling companies owned by citizens to embed themselves in the legal system of the CDS by owning land. Here we have land which, by definition, does not qualify anyone to become a citizen.
Why do I carry on like this? Another twist comes along. A citizen wishes to buy land under the name of a different alt. Assuming that the individual intends to comply with our fundamental principle, which he surely does, or he wouldn't have told me, I am now asked to keep track of parcels owned by two separate avatars, who are in fact only one person/citizen! (Whose RL name, of course, is his perfect right to conceal).
I submit that there is nothing wrong with the logic of what Leon wishes to do (at least as far as I can tell... I haven't heard him say clearly that Leon and Tom should each have a vote). The problem is the administration. I only have one little brain and a spreadsheet (actually a number of them) to keep track of all this. I have labored mightily and am still unable to beat out of Filemaker a database enabling me to keep track of simply the Group Land provisions, much less anything else of this.
I propose that until we have "Serious" software in place to handle this welter of complexity regarding land ownership, we impose structural simplicity (to take a page from the like named faction) on this policy, and require that land ownership policy be simple and clear. And I defer to the duly elected representatives to determine what simple and clear might be.....
Sudane.....
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