SUO: . voting rules
Patrick,
Some RRO clarifications on rules:
1. A quorum is only required for in-person meetings, to prevent a
minority of voting members from making decisions. Email ballots are
similar to letter ballots, which are sent to all voting members, so all
(except those who have lost touch) have a chance to vote.
2. There is no requirement for a certain percentage of voting members to
cast ballots. A vote could pass with YES=1, N0=0, ABSTAIN=0, and 85
people not voting.
3. You do not need to vote to retain voting rights. The only voting rule
we adopted was the 6-month waiting period.
4. Your idea for subgroups is good, but they would work via consensus or
informal votes.
Please correct me, anyone, if I'm incorrectly interpreting RRO.
Jim Schoening
On Fri, 23 May 2003 01:48:19 -0400 Patrick Cassidy
<pcassidy@bellatlantic.net> writes:
>
> 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.
>
> ----------------------------------
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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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