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[Al Beano <albino AT autistici.org>]

Voting starts: 2018-08-16 16:00 UTC
Voting ends: 2018-08-23 16:00 UTC

The quality of discourse on this list recently has been extremely poor, 
and although I am loath to introduce yet another bureaucratic vote, I 
think that a standard, agreed upon set of voting rules would go some way 
towards improving things here.

I started a discussion about this some weeks ago 
(https://lists.opennicproject.org/sympa/arc/discuss/2018-07/msg00113.html) 
and I am now bringing this to a vote.

1. Formal votes on proposals submitted to the mailing list will have 
three possible responses: yes, no and spoiled ballot/abstention.
2. Responses which clearly contain "YES", "AYE" or words to that effect 
will be considered "yes" votes.
3. Responses which clearly contain "NO", "NAY" or words to that effect 
will be considered "no" votes.
4. All other responses will be considered abstentions from voting and 
counted as such.
5. Motions will pass with a simple majority of all yes/no votes. 
Abstentions do not affect the outcome in any way. They are informational.
6. In the event of a tie, the status quo will be preserved.
7. This proposal will govern all votes submitted after it passes.

This proposal only governs *formal* votes - that is, votes which will 
directly affect the way OpenNIC runs. If members want to use a different 
method to gauge the membership's opinion, for example to allow more than 
two outcomes in a vote, they are still able to do that in any way they 
want. If they want to make a formal change to the rules after that, they 
would have to run a vote in compliance with the rules above.

Obviously, my vote for this is YES.

albino