Dawn ,'Beneath You'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Right, what billytea said. It's an issue, because we're addressing how the "no preference" works anyhow (in that is counted toward mvt).
Of course, if the English speaking world would follow my lead, and reclaim the "archaic" (but still frigging useful) definition of majority, we'd not have this problem. t sniff
Only if by 'majority' you mean "majority of non-'no preference' votes, rather than majority of votes cast.
Cindy was referring to Lyra Jane's post which said
"No preference" votes aren't counted as either yeses or nos, and the choice with the majority of the votes outside the "no preferences" still wins."
I still think it's safer to say "most votes" there, rather than "majority".
Signed,
Once Bitten, and I didn't even get a lousy T-shirt
Okay, and one more question before we put something in Press; what happens if someone reads about Angel Previously and No Preference and says, "hey, I voted wrong!" Can they revote, or do they just have to suck it up?
So we are going with the rule that No preference votes only count towards the quorum issue, and that when deciding the actual issue, it is only the yes and no votes that matter, even if No preference has more votes than yes or no, right?
eta: Lyra, in fairness to them, they should be able to email me about it, since other people already have.
Lee, that's the way I underdstand it.
Lyra, as far as I understand, they can re-vote, and then their former vote doesn't count.
What Nilly said.
Runs screaming from the thread having flashbacks....
signed,
was against the no preference option as unnecessarily complicated
So we are going with the rule that No preference votes only count towards the quorum issue, and that when deciding the actual issue, it is only the yes and no votes that matter, even if No preference has more votes than yes or no, right?
Correct. The only purpose for it is to allow people who don't have a preference to chip in toward the minimum vote total, thereby shutting us up on the issue, one way or the other, for six months.
And I really think that's important.