<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Or we could use a different word or phrase than "participants" earlier in that sentence. Either way, we should avoid ambiguity.</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><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Greg Shatan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com" target="_blank">gregshatanipc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I'll try to think of a word, but I don't have one now.</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><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Jordan Carter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz" target="_blank">jordan@internetnz.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi all<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Jordan</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Helvetica"><i>"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."</i></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Helvetica"><i><br></i></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Helvetica"><i>"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."</i></p><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Jordan Carter<br><br>Chief Executive <br><b>InternetNZ</b><br><br>+64-495-2118 (office) | <a href="tel:%2B64-21-442-649" value="+6421442649" target="_blank">+64-21-442-649</a> (mob)<br>Email: <a href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">jordan@internetnz.net.nz</a> <br>Skype: jordancarter<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br><i>A better world through a better Internet </i></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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