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.
Gavin
