Subj : Re: 2022 FTSC Standing Member Election - Votes Received
To   : Dan Clough
From : Shaun Buzza
Date : Fri Mar 11 2022 03:58 pm

 DC>  SB> There is a reason that real-world politics count abstentions
 DC>  SB> along with yes and no votes. It has to be a majority vote; the
 DC>  SB> majority of *all* votes, including abstentions, must be either
 DC>  SB> yes or no.
 DC> 
 DC> This is not correct, at least for elections that I'm familiar with,
 DC> in the USA.  We count *ONLY* YES votes.  You do not need a majority
 DC> of all votes, you simply need more YES votes than the number of YES
 DC> votes that your opponent gets.  That's it.  There are no NO votes, and 
 DC> there are millions of abstentions, which just means.... nothing.

Um, wouldn't a vote for your opponent automatically be a vote against you, or
a 'no'? Just sayin...

It is basically the same for our Prime Minister. However, I wasn't speaking
specifically about elections, but voting in a broader sense. It is not an
activity restricted only to an election. For example, NATO members voting on
creating no-fly zones.

Unfortunately, the FTSC election has already stepped out of the realm of the
presidential election you're familiar with/referring to. There are three
candidates, and any combination of the three could be voted in. This would be
more akin to voting in members of a city council, wouldn't it? And in that
case, it is indeed a majority decision, at least in the small part of the
world I call home.

McDoob
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