[ga-full] Re: [ga] Voting regimes

[Joe Baptista <baptista@pccf.net>]

The chief GA horseshitter speaks.  The GA was held up as an example of
what not to do and Harald continues with new ground.

Regards
Joe

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> Once we've got a GA membership, we've got to decide about how the GA votes.
> 
> I'd suggest keeping things simple, for now:
> 
> - The chair approves a ballot to be sent to the membership.
>    The typical amount of time given to reply to a vote is one week.
> - In the case of a yes-or-no decision, the majority wins.
> - In the case where the question is a rule change, the number of votes
>    cast must be at least half of the membership.
> 
> The idea behind the last one is that if most of the membership doesn't like
> a result, they can request a new ballot. But a change of rules may close this
> option, so it should be more difficult to do that.
> 
> Once we're active, we can fiddle with rules to our hearts' content; this
> should be enough to get us off the ground.
> 
>                    Harald
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> Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no
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