Subj : Re: 2022 FTSC Standing Member Election - Votes Received
To : Shaun Buzza
From : Dan Clough
Date : Fri Mar 11 2022 07:34 am
-=> Shaun Buzza wrote to Richard Menedetter <=-
SB> There is a reason that real-world politics count abstentions
SB> along with yes and no votes. It has to be a majority vote; the
SB> majority of *all* votes, including abstentions, must be either
SB> yes or no.
This is not correct, at least for elections that I'm familiar with,
in the USA. We count *ONLY* YES votes. You do not need a majority
of all votes, you simply need more YES votes than the number of YES
votes that your opponent gets. That's it. There are no NO votes, and
there are millions of abstentions, which just means.... nothing.
... If not for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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