Subj : 2022 FTSC Standing Member Election - Votes Received
To : Richard Menedetter
From : Shaun Buzza
Date : Fri Mar 11 2022 08:25 am
RM> SB> Also, there are *zero* 'no' votes, at least in this current election.
RM> SB> Does that mean a single 'yes' vote would mean a win?
RM> Finally you got the meaning of more yes than no ... it took you sime
RM> time, but now you habe it.
No, sir, I do not habe it. If I did, I wouldn't have be asking questions.
RM> SB> Or the flip side; if everyone abstains on a candidate, except one 'no
RM> SB> vote, does that candidate automatically lose?
RM>
RM> You finally really got it.
Still no...(o_O)
RM> SB> How does that make any more sense than discarding abstentions?
RM>
RM> Yes means, the region thinks, that the candidate should be taken.
RM> No means , the candidate is deemed unfit, and should NOT be taken.
RM> Anstain means, the region does not have an oppinion, so it does say
RM> nothing with regards to that candidate, but says yes or no to others
RM> (maybe).
And now *you're* getting it! (^_^)
If two people vote yes, three vote no, and, say, ten abstain, it doesn't mean
the same as only five people voting. In the case of a 'majority decision',
this would be considered a failed vote, and would result in a second round of
voting, or maybe a default decision.
Abstaining is different from not voting. An abstention is still part of the
total number of votes. It says exactly that, maybe. Instead of yes *or* no, it
is yes *and* no. That's exactly how an abstention is tallied in many
real-world votes, one for each. I would imagine this is done to avoid the
situation I described above.
I wasn't seeing that in this election, which is why I started asking
questions. I am not being purposefully obtuse...I'm just seeking clarification
on something that appears, at least to me, to be ambiguous.
Perhaps, as someone else got chided for, I am simply overthinking this whole
thing. What else am I gonna do when I find myself waking up extra early on my
day off?
