Re: February 17th Voting GR draft

2003-04-17 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 06:07:14PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Under A.2 Calling for a vote, change item 2 to read ^^ 2. The proposer or any sponsor of a resolution may call for a vote on that resolution and all related amendments.

Re: February 17th Voting GR draft

2003-04-17 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c. If a supermajority of S:1 is required for A, it's majority ratio is S, otherwise it's majority ratio is 1. s/it's/its/! I think I mentioned this last time too... RATIONALE: Options which the voters rank above the default

Re: February 17th Voting GR draft

2003-04-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi folks, Lets get the ball rolling on the other GR's that we have pending. There are two things I'd like to do, in case Raul and aj don't preempt me ;-). a) test the non secret vote code path in the vote engine. There have been some additions in the voting engine, namely,

Re: February 17th Voting GR draft

2003-02-19 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:55:52AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: Ah, I think this might interact very badly with super majorities. Or at least it seems important to educate the voters that they really want to rank default above accept if they vote for reject. At least we have the following

Re: February 17th Voting GR draft

2003-02-19 Thread Sam Hartman
Anthony == Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Anthony On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 05:38:36PM -0500, Buddha Buck Anthony wrote: Sam Hartman wrote: Would the two options on the ballot be my GR and a default option of more discussion? I think that, under the proposal

Re: February 17th Voting GR draft

2003-02-19 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:55:52AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: Ah, I think this might interact very badly with super majorities. Or at least it seems important to educate the voters that they really want to rank default above accept if they vote for reject. At least we have the following

Re: February 17th Voting GR draft

2003-02-18 Thread Sam Hartman
Would someone mind giving me a few examples of how this works in practice? Let's say I propose a GR and get seconds and it comes to a vote with no amendments. Would the two options on the ballot be my GR and a default option of more discussion? I realize this is a simplistic example; my actual

Re: February 17th Voting GR draft

2003-02-18 Thread Sam Hartman
Would someone mind giving me a few examples of how this works in practice? Let's say I propose a GR and get seconds and it comes to a vote with no amendments. Would the two options on the ballot be my GR and a default option of more discussion? I realize this is a simplistic example; my actual

Re: February 17th Voting GR draft

2003-02-18 Thread Buddha Buck
Sam Hartman wrote: Would someone mind giving me a few examples of how this works in practice? Let's say I propose a GR and get seconds and it comes to a vote with no amendments. Would the two options on the ballot be my GR and a default option of more discussion? I think that, under the

Re: February 17th Voting GR draft

2003-02-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 05:38:36PM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote: Sam Hartman wrote: Would the two options on the ballot be my GR and a default option of more discussion? I think that, under the proposal as made, this is correct. Yes. When this has been brought up in the past, I believe that

February 17th Voting GR draft

2003-02-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi Folks, I did not see any changes proposed to the last draft posted, so here is that version. We have been discussion this for several months now (seems like a decade or so ;-); I suggest that unless there are major and/or widespread objections, we treat this as a GR proposal and

Re: February 17th Voting GR draft

2003-02-17 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c. If a supermajority of S:1 is required for A, it's majority ratio is S, otherwise it's majority ratio is 1. Grammar nits: s/it\'s/its/; s/, otherwise/; otherwise,/ RATIONALE: Options which the voters rank above the default

February 17th Voting GR draft

2003-02-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi Folks, I did not see any changes proposed to the last draft posted, so here is that version. We have been discussion this for several months now (seems like a decade or so ;-); I suggest that unless there are major and/or widespread objections, we treat this as a GR proposal and

Re: February 17th Voting GR draft

2003-02-17 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c. If a supermajority of S:1 is required for A, it's majority ratio is S, otherwise it's majority ratio is 1. Grammar nits: s/it\'s/its/; s/, otherwise/; otherwise,/ RATIONALE: Options which the voters rank above the default