Re: SUO: RE: Re: Gathering Questions (No vs. Abstain) -- resend
Frank,
Please note that your interpretation is wrong. We have three options
in voting: Yes, no, and abstain. Each one has a distinct meaning,
and no two of them are "equivalent".
JD>> I don't like the insinuation that an abstention becomes interpreted
as a no
>> vote.
FF> Yes, effectively that is what IEEE legal is saying.
IEEE legal did not say that. Their interpretation is the same as
mine: an abstention is a request for more information before making
a decision one way or the other.
People who abstained in the SUMO vote were *not* voting against it.
They were merely saying that they needed more information.
FF> Robert's Rules and the Computer Society P&Ps say otherwise (Rule #1
> in the previous E-mail: simply Yes > No). That's why there is great
> concern over this legal ruling, and great interest in correcting this.
You are using the wrong verb. There is nothing "incorrect" in the
unanimous vote by the BoG.
What you are trying to do is to take away our option of abstaining.
Plese allow us to use abstentions as a meaningful way of stating
that it is premature to make a decision.
John Sowa