adopt-project.py plan: with no --elected-by and no user.name, the refusal reads --elected-by is '', naming a flag that was never passed

Only the unwritable-value path says the value was not given. This path should say so too.

From the v1.1.0 triage of the v1.0.0 known limits on #457. One pull request covers the lines below.

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N6: no --elected-by and no user.name is refused --elected-by is '', naming a flag never passed. Where: adopt-project.py MANIFEST_FLAGS. Effort S; all. On main 3121945: MANIFEST_FLAGS maps ELECTED_BY to a bare --elected-by (adopt-project.py:2426); only the unwritable-value path says "not given". (source)

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AT-adopt N6: plan with no --elected-by and no git config user.name is refused adopt-manifest-invalid: --elected-by is '', naming a flag the person never passed rather than the setting the empty default came from (probe on main 7a8b981; the label is adopt-project.py:1856, while the unwritable-value path at :1808 does say "not given, so git config user.name").
— #457, body

CLAIMED — lane openRepoShape-3, session b30e8b49-f249-4668-adb1-1dbfa93c09e1@Eagle, 2026-10-14T22:31:36Z, for #529

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1. existing `CLAIMED —` comments on opensoft/openRepoShape#529:
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2. `gh pr list --repo opensoft/openRepoShape --state all --search "#529"`, kept where the row or its body names `#529`:
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3. `git ls-remote --heads git@github.com:opensoft/openRepoShape` branches naming `529` as a whole token:
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adopt-project.py `plan`: with no `--elected-by` and no `user.name`, the refusal reads `--elected-by is ''`, naming a flag that was never passed #529