Re: SUO: Voting Rules
At 17:01 2003-04-23 -0700, Robert Grayson Spillers wrote:
>
> Jim,
> Your interpretation is incorrect.
>
> The ruling (actually a motion unanimously approved by the IEEE SA Board
> of Governors) stated clearly the procedure for counting votes. This
> Working Group and specifically you as chair were directed to use this
> method - a motion must get a majority of all votes cast including
> abstains.
>
> Since this has been dissected in excruciating detail in previous
> exchanges I will only state that the Board of Governors has unanimously
> and formally decided this issue. You as chair of the Working Group are
> bound by their decision.
>
> Bob
Bob-
I believe the prior so-called ruling was not authentic. The public was excluded from the discussion and there were no public records of the meeting. Furthermore, an interpretation of this kind would have been communicated to the WG chairs because it would have affected everyone's WG. Since there was no record and no publication to the WG chairs, I doubt the authenticity of those E-mails.
Since the IEEE-SA Standards Board has updated its Bylaws and Operations Manual since the so-called ruling, one would have assumed there would have been some clarification in the revised IEEE documents, but in fact there is no such change.
The there are new procedures, I believe the prior ruling (if authentic) only applied to the old documents. Thus, the chair is not bound by the prior ruling (if authentic) because there are new rules.
-FF
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