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Jnyusa
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Posted: Wed 13 Jul , 2005 8:19 pm
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APPROVED TEXT
(Text is shown for all things added to this Article by this vote, e.g. quorum requirements. Please also note the tie on language for the first paragraph)

A binding vote cannot be held for a proposition that has been defeated by an earlier vote during the past 6 months unless a genuine change of circumstances justifies holding an additional vote. It is the responsibility of the Committee to determine whether the proposed vote is allowable. If the committee is divided, a straw poll will be taken and a simple majority of the committee members will decide whether the vote is allowable.

¶3: Form of the vote and quorum and majority requirements

Form of the vote and majority requirements
The committee is responsible for deciding what form the vote will take, and this must be clearly indicated on the ballot.

The board recognizes three legitimate voting forms:
1. A simple poll for which the board software tallies the vote and a specified percentage wins;
2. A poll in which the board software tallies the vote and the percentages associated with successive responses which increase or decrease in stringency are aggregated until a specified percentage is reached and the response associated with that aggregated percentage wins;
3. A secret ballot submitted by PM or email, using either a two-choice format, or an instant runoff format when the vote entails more than one question or there are more than two mutually exclusive options.

If a simple poll or two-choice secret ballot is used, the proposition(s) will be accepted if 67% of the voting members accept it.

If aggregated percentages are used, the winning option will be determined as that response associated with an aggregated 67% of the vote.

If an instant runoff ballot is used, the winning option will be that which aggregates to 51% of the vote.

The committee will be responsible for counting the vote and announcing the results for each question on the ballot in the same thread in which the vote took place.

Quorum requirements
In order for a Binding Vote to be valid, sufficient votes must be cast to reach a quorum, defined as follows:
• Records will be maintained for the proportion of members who voted in the last seven elections that required a quorum.
• ‘Proportion of members who voted’ will be calculated as the number of votes cast divided by the number of members active over the sixty days prior to the vote.
• A moving average of those last seven proportions will be calculated, converted to a percentage, and 5% will be deducted to account for variation.
• The resulting percent will be multiplied by the number of members active during the sixty days prior to the posting of the ratification thread, and that will be the number of votes required for a quorum.

Records necessary for calculating a quorum will be maintained by the Mayor and posted in Michel Delving where the members can see them.

The number of votes that must be cast to reach a quorum will be posted in the ratification thread.

If the quorum as calculated from a moving average falls below 20%, the Committee for Amendments to the Charter will convene to reconsider our participation requirements.

¶5: Actions which cannot be undertaken without a Binding Vote of the Membership
1. Moving to a new server
2. Altering the terms of ownership for the board
3. Elimination of a Forum and/or restructuring of the forums which would entail mass renaming and/or moving of subfora and threads.

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VOTING IS NOW OPEN

We'll vote for 48 hours until ~11:59 pm GMT on Saturday

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1. A

2. D, C, B, A

3. A

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Question 1: A.

Question 2:
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2. D.
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4. C.

Question 3: A.

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Question 1: A.

Question 2:
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2. D
3. C
4. B

Question 3: A.

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The need to hold a binding vote for exceptions to the general policies stated in Article 8 and 9 is already contained within each of those Articles, therefore #4 and #5 on the list above are redundant and could lead to an undesirable contradiction between Articles 7, 8 and 9. It is proposed that these last two list items be removed
If the need for a binding vote is already contained in the article, how can repeating the need for a binding vote lead to contradiction? :scratch

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Hobby, please see my answer to this in the other thread - Binding votes - where you posed the question.

(Sorry for not putting in the link. I'm in a rush right now)

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Question 1:

A. I agree



Question 2:

1. A
2. D
3. B
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A. I agree


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Q1: A

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Question 1:

A. I agree



Question 2:

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4. D



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A. I agree

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Question 1:
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Question 2:
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Question 1:
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Question 2:
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2. C
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4. D

Question 3:
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A. I agree


Question 2:

1. B
2. A
3. C
4. D

Question 3:

A. I agree



Thanks for answering the questions Jny - and for the voting reminder, too! :)

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Question 1: A

Question 2:
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Question 3: A

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VOTING IS NOW CLOSED.

I'll put whatever approved text is applicable in the first post after moving the ballot and results to the ballot archive. Ratification thread will go up tonight or tomorrow.

Results:

Question 1:
A = 10
B = 0

Question 2: after runoff
A = 5
B = 6
C = 0
D = 0

Question 3:
A = 10
B = 0

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Jn, I'm getting a 5-5 tie between A and B on question 2. There were ten votes, not eleven, so a 6-5 result isn't possible.


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Yes, right, Faramond. Don't know what the heck I did there. In the first two eliminations I had 12 votes instead of ten. :scratch

Ok - so another tie.

Friends, give thought to how to want to deal with these ties. I don't think we can put text choices like this before the whole membership and get a coherent result.

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A 24-hour runoff poll between A and B? And hope that someone's opinion has shifted?

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