On Mar 25, 2009, at 06:24, Gavin Maltby wrote: > Stephen Hahn wrote: > >> - With respect to Question 2, the Constitution remains unchanged >> with >> 218 Ayes, 31 Nays, and 22 Abstaining. With 466 Core >> Contributors, >> 234 Ayes were required for an affirmative majority. > > ... which would be reasonable if voting was compulsory for > core contributors, but since it isn't I'd have thought > we were looking for a majority vote from those that > actually bothered to vote. The current constitution > says it can be amended with "an affirmative vote of a majority > of the Members of record" which can be read in a few ways > (which says a lot about the current constitution!) one of > which is that: > > - we did have a "vote of a majority of the Members of > record", since 271 ballots were cast of a possible > maximum of 466 so we need 234 ballot for a majority > to have voted. > > - the result of that vote was affirmative > > Where/when was the interpretation of the amendment requirements > made? I, for one, had no idea that we were chasing an > absolute total until the result came out.
I certainly think this merits discussion at the next OGB meeting. I've added it to the agenda. S.
