RE: [ga] Voting regimes

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

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This sounds like good solution that doesn't paralyze the ability of the GA to
actually accomplish something.  

On 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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