Received: from localhost ([::1]:46553 helo=stodi.digitalkingdom.org) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8Tng-0002B2-9K; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 05:03:56 -0800 Received: from earth.ccil.org ([192.190.237.11]:39048) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8TnZ-0002Au-6o for llg-members@lojban.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 05:03:54 -0800 Received: from cowan by earth.ccil.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8TnV-00044d-6M for llg-members@lojban.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 08:03:45 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 08:03:45 -0500 From: John Cowan To: llg-members@lojban.org Message-ID: <20150106130345.GA16334@mercury.ccil.org> References: <54A85D69.7060907@lojban.org> <20150105060423.GA11663@mercury.ccil.org> <20150106003519.GB16715@mercury.ccil.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-Spam_score: -2.5 X-Spam_score_int: -24 X-Spam_bar: -- Subject: Re: [Llg-members] Results of Board Voting X-BeenThere: llg-members@lojban.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: llg-members@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: llg-members-bounces@lojban.org And Rosta scripsit: > Could we alter the by-laws so that Board members are simply elected by > approval voting, electing either the n candidates with the most votes or > all candidates voted for by more than half of the electors? (Say, the three > candidates with the most votes, plus all candidates voted for by more than > half of the electors.) (General point.) I have never understood the desire to alter the default standard of "a majority of the legal votes cast" to "a majority of the members", but it seems to be extremely common in organizations. Are people worried that a tiny minority of the membership will be all that bothers to vote, and so members or directors or officers will be chosen by a vote of 2 to 1 or something? People generally show up and usually vote, and if not, that is why quorum rules exist. Plurality voting does deviate, but we use that to make sure we have at least three directors even if no candidate gets a majority. In any case, we cannot change the by-laws at this meeting, because notice of by-law changes have to be made in advance and in writing, except at a meeting where all members are present (which IIRC this is not). -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org This great college [Trinity], of this ancient university [Cambridge], has seen some strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk and Porson sober. And here am I, a better poet than Porson, and a better scholar than Wordsworth, somewhere betwixt and between. --A.E. Housman _______________________________________________ Llg-members mailing list Llg-members@lojban.org http://mail.lojban.org/mailman/listinfo/llg-members