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

[Rob Unsworth]

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Raymond.

If the proxy vote is counted for a quorum, then an abstaining vote is a
vote for the negative.

Regards
Rob Unsworth


On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Raymond Smith wrote:

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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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