[WP1] Voting Thresholds

[Greg Shatan]

Or we could use a different word or phrase than "participants" earlier in
that sentence.  Either way, we should avoid ambiguity.

Greg

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Greg Shatan <gregshatanipc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think we need to use a different word for "non-participation" in the end
> of the first paragraph.  Otherwise, it's not clear that we are talking
> about "non-participation" by participants, and not "non-participation" by
> non-participants.
>
> I'll try to think of a word, but I don't have one now.
>
> Greg
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Jordan Carter <jordan at internetnz.net.nz>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Alan, Bernie and I have been working on the voting thresholds and
>> counting system. It's an addition to the 5A-2 paper on Community Mechanism
>> - Voting.
>>
>> We have tried to propose the very simplest model possible, as follows.
>> Please review this and be ready to discuss on WP1 in ~4.5 hrs or so.
>>
>> Jordan
>>
>> *"The CCWG-Accountability proposes that for the purposes of the simplest
>> possible administration of the voting system that the thresholds expressed
>> for each community power should be absolute. This means that if a threshold
>> is 66%, then 66%+ of the votes that could be cast by participants in the
>> CMSM at that time need to be 'yes' votes for the threshold to be met. No
>> votes, abstentions or non-participation would all be treated the same way."*
>>
>>
>> *"An alternative approach that adjusted the thresholds based on the
>> number of yes/no votes compared with the number of abstentions or non-votes
>> was considered, but adds significant complexity and so is not the CCWG's
>> preference at this time."*
>>
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