Justin's proposed changes.

Raymundo Vega Aguilar rvega at cicese.mx
Tue Jan 28 16:47:25 EST 1997


> 
>            I am for the motion.
>            I am opposed to the motion but willing to go along.
>            I am against the motion.
> 
> If those three states were weighted 1, 0.5 and 0 then one could say that
> consensus was reached when the sum of the voting states was greater than 
> 50% of the number of members. Thus, on a board with 6 members, if 1 member
> is opposed to a motion and all others are willing to go along we have
> a voting status equal to 5 * 0.5 + 1 * 0 for a total of 2.5 which is
> less than the total of 3.0 required. However, if one of those people
> changed to support the motion the voting state would be
> 1 * 1 + 4 * 0.5 + 1 * 0 for a total of 3.0 which passes the motion.

This is voting with a few more bits of resolution.

Raymundo.



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