[ga] Voting rules, take 4

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

Based on the discussion earlier, here's what I propose as final text.
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VOTING RULES FOR THE DNSO GA
Version 0.4

These are the rules for voting in the General assembly.

- A vote begins when the Chair approves a ballot.
   The ballot is sent to the registered GA voters by the secretariat.
- The typical amount of time given to reply to a vote is one week.
- In the case of a choice between multiple alternatives, the alternative 
with the most votes wins.
- In the case of selecting N candidates from a slate of M, with N > M, the
N top candidates win.
- A runoff ballot may be held if the number of votes for two alternatives 
is equal, and this affects the result. Only the two alternatives involved 
are inclulded on a runoff ballot.
- In the case where the question is a new rule or rule change for the GA, 
the number of votes in favour of the winning alternative must be at least 
2/3 of cast votes, with a minimum number of cast votes being the lower of 
20% of the registered voters or 100 votes.
-  The voters are those who are registered as voters when a vote is first 
sent out.


The voting roster and a method to register for voting are available in 
http://www.dnso.org/secretariat/rosterindex.html
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The ballot for voting on this rule should read something like:

[] I want the voting rules at <URL> to be approved
[] I do not want the voting rules at <URL> to be approved

2/3 majority required to win, since it's a rule introduction.
Does this seem uncontroversial? If so - let's vote on it!

                  Harald

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

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