Re: [IFWP] Re: [ga] Voting regimes

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Joe and all assembly members,

  I think Joe makes a good point here....

Joe Baptista wrote:

> 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
> > --
> > Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
> > Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no
> >
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