SUO: Re: Gathering Questions (No vs. Abstain) -- resend
At 16:36 2002-01-23 -0500, John F. Sowa wrote:
>
> Frank,
>
> You are only looking at one side of the issue:
>
> FF> Bottom Line: If you count Abstain responses as No votes, i.e.:
> >
> > Yes > No+Abstain
> >
> > Then Abstain responses count as No votes for the purposes of decision-making.
>
> That is not what we (many of the people responding to you) have been
> saying. You have been ignoring the other side of the question.
>
> A majority in favor is determined by the following formula:
>
> Yes > No + Abstain
Committee decisions/actions are based only on achieving majority (Rule #1 or Rule #2).
> A majority against is determined by another formula:
>
> No > Yes + Abstain
There committee doesn't take actions on things like above, i.e., there is no "majority against" concept in committee actions.
> This makes it very clear that an Abstention counts *equally*
> against both acceptance and rejection.
There is only acceptance and non-acceptance of committee actions ... according to Rule #2, Abstains only count negatively.
'Nuf said.
-FF
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