On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 02:46:47PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > Under 4.2 Procedure [for developers during a general resolution or > > election], change item 3 to read: > > 3. Votes are taken by the Project Secretary. Votes and tallies results > > are not revealed during the voting period; after the vote the > > Project Secretary lists all the votes cast.
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 05:30:18PM -0500, Thomas Smith wrote: > Maybe we should say that the Secretary lists the votes in a way that > does not reveal both a voter's name and vote to anyone other than the > voter. That doesn't apply to general resolutions, and I think that's adequately covered elsewhere. > > Under A.2 Calling for a vote, change item 2 to read > > > > 2. The proposer or a sponsor of a motion may call for a vote on a > > set of related amendments. > This is a problem because the previous item states that the > proposer/sponsor may call for a vote but it is never stated what that > person can call for a vote on. Also, this draft of item 2 does not let > the proposer of a motion call for a vote on that motion. Hmm... I'll need to rethink this. Not today, though, I've been up all night and I'd probably overlook too many things. > > Replace A.3 with: > > > > A.3. Voting procedure > > > > 1. Each independent set of related amendments is voted on in a > > separate ballot. Each such ballot has as options all the sensible > > combinations of amendments and options from that set, and a default > > option. If the default option wins then the entire resolution > > procedure is set back to the start of the discussion period. > This wording says nothing about motions. Should it? Perhaps earlier > mentions of "amendments" should be changed to "motions to amend" and > this section should be changed to talk about motions. Probably -- I (or maybe someone else) needs to go through the constitution and look at all the words used to describe ballot options and make sure that the end result is coherent. > > 3. Any option which does not defeat the default option by its > > required majority ratio is dropped from consideration. > > a. An option A defeats an option B if N(A,B)*V(A,B) is larger > > than N(B,A)*V(B,A) and if the (A,B) defeat has not been > > dropped. > I have a comprehensible name for N(A,B)*V(A,B): "scaled number of votes > preferring A to B". So the subitem could begin "An option A defeats an > option B if the scaled number of votes preferring A to B N(A,B)*V(A,B) > is larger..." I think I can use that, thanks. -- Raul
