Re: SUO: Revised SUO voting rules
Since we are constrained by the rules required by the parent
IEEE organization, I would suggest the following:
(1) For issues that will be actively considered only by fewer than
half of the voting members of the SUO study group, a committee
should be formed to deal with those issues and votes on matters
pertaining to that issue should be taken only among members
of that committee. In this way, matters such as decisions
regarding inclusion or exclusion of elements of the IFF,
could be dealt with by people knowledgeable and interested.
Those like myself who wish to defer to the judgment of those
more informed need not vote merely so as to preserve our
voting status or provide a quorum for the vote.
(2) Where there are issues that must be decided by the full
voting membership, if there are also some who wish to defer
to the judgment of those more knowledgeable on a particular
issue, those should refrain from voting at all (do not
cast an "abstain") until the chairman has announced a "preliminary
count" prior to the close of voting. (No rule I know forbids
this). Those who have refrained up to that point can
then vote with the apparent majority side on that issue,
if votes are still needed for a quorum.
(3) The application of the rule that members must vote in
order to preserve their voting status should be reserved
for issues that are presented to the whole membership.
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The above procedural suggestion addresses the problem,
in bodies like ours dealing with a variety of highly technical
issues, to find a work-around for outdated rules originally
designed to consider issues that everyone in theory can
understand well enough to vote on intelligently.
Pat
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jim.s3@juno.com wrote:
> SUO,
>
> The Chair of our next higher body suggests I follow the prior
> directive of the Standards Association Board of Governors, even though he
> admits he doesn't agree with it.
>
> As such, all future motions will pass only if YES>(NO+ABSTAIN).
> For example, if YES=9, No=1, ABSTAIN=8, the motion would not pass.
>
> Jim
>
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