From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Nov 20 00:25:54 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:25:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IuOQc-0003V7-AD for llg-members@lojban.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:25:54 -0800 Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:25:54 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Motion fails (was Re: PLEASE VOTE! -- LLG AGM 2007: Bylaw Alterations) Message-ID: <20071120082554.GH17046@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-members@lojban.org References: <20070918181955.GW10667@nvg.org> <20071007030525.GF20839@digitalkingdom.org> <20071114172810.GI13652@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071114172810.GI13652@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-archive-position: 555 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-members@lojban.org X-list: llg-members On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 09:28:10AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:05:25PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 08:19:55PM +0200, Arnt Richard Johansen > > wrote: > > > 5. Bylaw Alteration > > > > > > In article 3, section 4, remove "In the absence of any such > > > designation, the annual meeting shall be held at the principal > > > address of the organization on the first Sunday following the > > > 20th day of June each year, at 10 o'clock in the morning of > > > that day." > > > > > > Proposer: Arnt Richard Johansen. > > > > Discussion begins now; unless someone moves to vote, we'll > > commence voting on Wednesday. > > I forgot to actually announce this, so voting begins now, and ends > > Mon Nov 20 00:00:00 UTC 2007 > > Please note that a bylaw change requires a 2/3 majority of *all > members*, so please do explicitely vote! If my math is correct, > we need 17 "yes" votes to pass this. > > I vote yes. I count 26 members, which means we need 17 1/3 votes for passage, which means 18. I count 17 Yes votes, and 0 No votes. The motion fails. Perhaps now you all will fight with me less when I get aggressive about removing non-participating members? -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/