>With a 6 to 1 majority voting yes for the change, it does seem a little >odd that we were looking for a greater than 50% of all possible voters.
That's not different from how other referenda are decided. The best way to do it is to require a certain percentage of the electorate to vote for or against a particular item. This is required so that the "other side" cannot change the outcome by abstaining (this can happen in certain systems). We could, of course, change the rules, by a referendum, but that must pass. In the past we felt that excepting a "core contributor" status was sufficient to by entered in the election register. Perhaps we need to require a core contributor to "register" their intend to vote by registering their ssh key. How many ssh keys are registered? Did people register and didn't vote? Casper
