<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">All,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I wanted to pluck this suggestion out of the email swamp. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Kavouss made an alternative proposal concerning another threshold between Simple Majority and 2/3 -- the alternative threshold is 60%.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Speaking only for myself, this could be a simple but creative way out of the current situation. It is a literally a middle ground between the current majority threshold and the previously proposed 2/3 threshold:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><table class="" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;border:none">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">8/16</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">50%</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">No</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">9/16</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Yes, by majority</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">62.50%</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Yes, if by 60%</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">11/16</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Yes, if by 2/3</p>
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</tbody></table><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">This would require one more vote than the current threshold and one less vote than the 2/3 threshold. Win/win?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Greg</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 5:41 AM, Kavouss Arasteh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kavouss.arasteh@gmail.com" target="_blank">kavouss.arasteh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Co-Chairs</div><div>Pls kindly confirm that you have received my last alternative proposal concerning another threshold between Simple Majority and 2/3. This alternative threshould is <strong>60%</strong></div><div><strong>There has been many cases considered with that level of threshold</strong></div><div><strong>Pls confirm its recption and confirm actions to be taken before you go to poll</strong></div><div><strong>Awaiting for your reply</strong></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><strong>Kavouss </strong><br></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="auto"><span><div><br></div></span><blockquote type="cite"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">[...]</span></p></div></blockquote><span><br><blockquote type="cite"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></blockquote></span></div><br></div></div><span>_______________________________________________<br>
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