| > That may be true in theory, but in the practice, when in a 20 person TC
| > an email vote elicits 2 yes votes and 1 no vote and the rest either
| > send "I abstain" messages or none at all, people are quite reluctant
| > to consider the matter settled in favor of the motion. Most would say,
| > and have said, that the vote doesn't and shouldn't count.
|
| If everyone else abstains or can't be bothered voting, doesn't that
| mean they don't care about the result of that vote? So why shouldn't
| it count?
That's how it's supposed to work, and that's how in f2f meetings
it actually does work. This is called a majority vote (p. 395):
Majority Vote -- the Basic Requirement
As stated on page 4, the basic requirement for approval of an
action or choice by a deliberative assembly, except where a
rule provides otherwise, is a _majority vote_. The word
_majority_ means "more than half"; and when the term _majority
vote_ is used without qualification -- as in the case of the
basic requirement -- it means more than half of the votes cast
by persons legally entitled to vote, excluding blanks or
abstentions, at a regular of properly called meeting at which a
quorum is present.
This works fine for everyone else. Why are we screwing around
with the basic concept of a majority?
Jon
