Sets the HAPartition; from this the election policy can gain
access to the DistributedReplicantManager for tracking the
deployment topology for the singleton service and to the HAPartition
for making group RPC calls.
Called by the HASingleton to provide the election policy a reference to
itself. A policy that was designed to elect a particular kind of singleton
could downcast this object to a particular type and then access the
singleton for state information needed for the election decision.