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- Submitted-by: rml@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com (Bob Lenk)
-
- In article <1992Apr2.025223.27860@uunet.uu.net> stephe@mks.com (Stephen Walli)
- writes:
-
- > Taken to an extreme, this means that regardless of the
- > ballot pool size, if 3 people vote affirmative, 1 votes
- > negative and the rest abstain, the initiative passes. The
- > moral of the story is: abstain only as a last resort, there
- > may be deleterious side effects.
-
- While this is true, I wouldn't necessarily draw the conclusion that I
- infer (vote negative rather than abstain). Remember that a negative
- ballot must contain specific objections which, if addressed, would make
- the ballot affirmative. Thus a negative ballot is actually an
- affirmative response for the subsequent ballot with preconditions. In
- other words, a negative ballot which doesn't cover all of its
- submitter's real objections to the standard could have even more
- "deleterious side effects".
-
- Perhaps the conclusion I inferred was not intended. Another possible
- conclusion is "do not submit a ballot rather than abstain". I agree
- that it makes sense not to join a balloting group rather than to join
- and abstain. If one has chosen to join, I think it is appropriate to
- submit a ballot.
-
- Bob Lenk
- rml@fc.hp.com
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- Volume-Number: Volume 27, Number 77
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