On May 31, 2011, at 2:34 PM, mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote: > A Two-Thirds Majority does allow for more voters to object but at the > same time it requires many more voters explicitly to approve, so in terms > of overall effort it's "harder".
Sounds like you're describing an _absolute_ two-thirds majority. Where nobody objects, a standard two-thirds majority only requires 3 approvals. That's not "many more" explicit approvals. And a _three-vote_ consensus is strictly more difficult than a (standard) two-thirds majority: both require three yeses, but the three-vote consensus allows no nos (for example, in a group of 100, a 3-1 or 4-2 vote passes two-thirds majority but not three-vote consensus). (Just noticed when working out specific numbers: simple majority uses '>' ("more of"), while two-thirds majority uses '>=' ("at least"). That distinction may be significant among small groups; might be good to be more explicit about it.) —Dan