<p dir="ltr">I am yet to get the scenario where absent would be applicable here. I can understand possibility of having abstain as an option but not absent.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 1 Aug 2015 11:49 pm, &quot;Greg Shatan&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com">gregshatanipc@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">On a more serious note, voting in the Mechanism does not take place in a meeting, so there should be no<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">​ proxy voting.</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">Greg​</div><br><br>On Saturday, August 1, 2015, Dr Eberhard W Lisse &lt;<a href="mailto:el@lisse.na" target="_blank">el@lisse.na</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">s/nut/but/<br>
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spellchecker on the iPhone :-)-O<br>
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el<br>
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On 2015-08-01 22:04 , Greg Shatan wrote:<br>
&gt; I assume &quot;nut voting&quot; is a typo.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; But the other possibilities are interesting to consider.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; On Saturday, August 1, 2015, Dr Eberhard W Lisse &lt;<a>el@lisse.na</a><br>
&gt; &lt;mailto:<a>el@lisse.na</a>&gt;&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;     What about<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;     not present nut voting (by proxy)?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;     el<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;     --<br>
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