Bylaws Revision: VOTING[4]

[Darren O. Benham]

On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 07:10:45PM -0500, Lynn Winebarger wrote:
>    Well, if votes are only demanded from the membership as a whole on
> important issues on a relatively infrequent basis, I don't think it would
> be too much to ask for members to not be apathetic.  If voting were
> frequent and on relatively minor matters I would say quorum should be low
> because everyone has lives and deadlines and all kinds of things to make
> room for on their calendar.
>    I would not be adverse to making voting at least somewhat mandatory on
> important issues, perhaps if a member fails to vote on (say) 80% of the
> important votes they are downgraded...  Sounds harsh, though.  But
> apathetic democracies are problematic, since issues usually then get
> decided by the extremes, rather than any true majority.  But that way,
> problems with meeting quorums would be somewhat self-correcting.
Hmm... I wonder what others have to say.  Considering the opposition to
expiring memberships... hmmmm

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