Re: [wg-c] consensus call results

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 10:15 AM 12/20/1999 , Jonathan Weinberg wrote:
>intentions, please let me and the list know posthaste.  In particular, if
>any of you voted to abstain with the intention that your vote be counted in
>the vote tally denominator (so that it had the procedural effect of a NO
>vote), please let me know and I'll so treat it.

More specifically:  If someone wants their votes counted as a NO, they need 
to vote NO.

If someone wants their vote counted as a YES they need to vote YES.

Although some private organizations do require a yes vote to be at least a 
proportion of total membership, that is not typically true for "public" 
processes, for exactly the reason you cite:  participation is typically too 
low.

d/

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