[H-GEN] Support to change Humbug's constitution.

[Raymond Smith]

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On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Benjamin Robert Carlyle wrote:
> Is there currently an easy way to abstain from all votes at a
> particular SGM?

Yes. Simply instruct your proxy to abstain in all votes. People may not be
aware that you can instruct your proxy to vote anyway you want them too,
including to abstain.

Unfortunately members do not seem interested in providing proxies. This
year I only received one proxy vote from a well known 'active' member (who
is there almost every week). The only way we could make this easier is to
accept email proxies -- but the exec has been cautious about this because
we have no way to authenticate the proxies.

> "Financial members may choose at any particular SGM to
> disqualify themselves from voting, and may represent thier
> decision by proxy.  A member disqualified in this way reduces
> the size of the quorum in the same way as the quorum size
> would be reduced if that member ceased to be a financial
> member."

I believe this is an understood function of a proxy vote and does not
require constitutional support or a concept of 'disqualification'. (Your
vote is not disqualified, it is simply not exercised.)
 
Raymond

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