[aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

[Kaiting Chen]

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:

> This proposal clarifies the Standard Voting Procedure, and allows
> another condition for passing a motion.
>
>                <address>
>                        Trusted Users
> @@ -79,9 +79,12 @@
>                        <br><br>
>
>                        At the expiration of the voting period, if a quorum
> was reached, votes are to be tallied.
> -                       A simple majority is needed to pass or reject the
> motion. In the event of a draw, being
> -                       that 50% is not a majority, the motion does not
> pass. In the event that a quorum was not
> -                       reached, a duplicate voting period opens
> immediately after the first ends, all previous votes are
> +                       The motion is passed if quorum is reached and the
> number of YES votes is greater than the number of NO votes.
> +                       The motion is also passed if quorum is not reached
> but the number of YES votes exceeds fifty percent of the number of active
> Trusted Users.
> +                       The motion is rejected if quorum is reached and the
> number of NO votes is greater or equal to the number of YES votes.
> +
> +                       In the event that a quorum was not reached and the
> motion is not passed,
> +                       a duplicate voting period opens immediately after
> the first ends, all previous votes are
>                        struck from the record, and the voting period is
> repeated. If quorum cannot be reached
>                        for two consecutive voting periods, the motion fails
> to pass.<br><br>
>

Looks good to me, except "greater or equal to" is usually written as
"greater than or equal to". --Kaiting.

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