Re: [ga] Procedure.

[William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>]

Monday, May 13, 2002, 2:20:20 AM, Thomas Roessler wrote:

> 3. To evaluate the vote, we'll mostly follow Jonathan Weinberg's  
> earlier suggestion: You'll be able to vote on each resolution.  The 
> resolution which gets most "yes" votes will be considered to have 
> been accepted, under the additional condition that more than 50% of 
> voters accepted it.

I strongly object to this.  The GA operates by consensus, and no
definition of consensus I've ever seen defines it as 50% plus 1
support, but instead requiring it to have vastly more support, usually
no less than 2/3 of those voting.

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