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  • From: flux <flux AT sourcemage.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Project Lead Vote for the remainder of the 2010 term
  • Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:50:31 +0900

Jeremy Blosser (jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org) wrote [11.02.16 05:45]:
> The final vote tally is as above, 6 aye, 5 nay, 2 abstain. Our policy
> states "Votes require a simple majority (greater than 50% of all votes
> cast) to pass." If we do not count abstentions toward the majority
> requirement, that's 54 in favor. If we do count abstentions, that's 46%.
> Under most traditional voting systems abstentions don't get counted,
> however our policy specifically says "all votes cast", which makes it a
> count based on the total cast. That was done deliberately, with the
> intention that abstentions would count so that NOTA votes would matter--we
> technical people tend to want our NOTA votes to count, even if it means
> votes fail and have to be tried again.

I have a very different interpretation of those same rules. For me
abstention is abstention. The abstention vote "counts" in that a lead
doesn't get demoted for not casting a vote in consecutive voting calls,
but, IMO, does not count either for or against what is being voted on.
If the abstention vote counts in the way you interpret it to, then
having abstention as an option is moot, because it results in exactly
the same as just saying 'nay' to begin with (thus, abstention = nay). I
think if that's the way the votes really work, we should either remove
abstention as an option or at least make it very clear that abstention
results in nay, rather than true abstention. Otherwise, abstention works
the way I interpret it to, and perhaps that should also be made more
clear in our voting policy.

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Justin "flux_control" Boffemmyer
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