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

[Raymond Smith]

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On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Bruce Campbell wrote:
> A vote of 'ABSTAIN', whether by proxy or in person, effectively removes
> that vote from the current count.  It does not make it count in the
> negative, under any circumstances.
> 
> However, if a motion requires a particular number of votes to pass, a
> goodly number of 'ABSTAIN' votes (and hence, not used in the count) may
> effectively block the passing of that motion.

Ok, which would not matter in the case of the election of executive
members where all that is required is a majority of members present not a
particular number of votes.

Cool.

Raymond


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