[ga] Voting, 1

[Eric Dierker <ERIC@hi-tek.com>]

This is the best I can find for voting in a new chair.

It should also be noted that this is what is posted at DNSO:

General Assembly

    Roberto Gaetano (Chair)
    Harald T. Alvestrand (Alternate Chair)


23 June 2000

VOTING RULES FOR THE DNSO GA

Version 0.5

     Supersedes Version 0.4

These are the rules for voting in the General Assembly.

   1.A vote begins when the Chair approves a ballot.

          A ballot consists of one or more questions, each of which has
two
or more mutually exclusive answers.

          The ballot is sent to the registered GA voters by the
Secretariat.

   2.The typical amount of time given to reply to a vote is one week.
   3.Each voter can cast one vote for one alternative per question.
   4.The alternative selected by more than 50% of the cast votes wins.
   5.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.
   6.If no alternative gets the required number of votes, the Chair may
reissue the ballot with a smaller set of alternatives (a runoff), or
declare that there
     is no consensus in the GA on the question.
   7.The voters are those who are registered as voters when a vote is
first
sent out.

Note:

     This set of rules does not cover ballots with multiple winners,
such
as election of a set of representatives. Rules for these situations may
be
     introduced in a later amendment.




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