P&P: Draft training message

[jim.s3@juno.com]

SUO P&P Group,

        I like Matthew West's draft.  Here are a couple edits, plus how
we could present it to the voting members.

Jim


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Message sent directly to all voting members
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Subject: 2-minutes of training on new IEEE voting rules --- Please
acknowledge completion

ATTN SUO Voting Members:

        This is 2-minutes of training on the new IEEE voting rules. 
Please acknowledge that you have read this by sending a reply back to me.
     
CHANGE IN VOTING RULES

IEEE has announced the following new rule for counting email ballots:

        YES > 0.5*VOTING MEMBERS

This means that abstaining, acknowledging (but not voting), and not
responding are all effectively "NO" votes.

In practice this makes being a responsible voting member more onerous
than in the past, when if you were not interested, or not bothered about
a particular vote, you could acknowledge but not vote, and you would not
be counted in the ballot.

If you have consistently not voted in ballots we suggest either:

1. (Preferably) you take a more active interest in the work of the Group
and vote (YES or NO) in ballots.

2. You consider removing yourself from the voting membership (which in no
other way limits your participation in the Group).  You may regain voting
rights at any time by making a request to the Chair.

A SUO voting member is anyone who has registered and waited 6 months.
Members lose voting rights if they fail to either vote on or acknowledge
two consecutive ballots, but they can regain voting rights at any time
upon request. A list of SUO voting members is at
http://suo.ieee.org/SUO/documents/voting-members.txt.
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