Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:
>
> >>With a 6 to 1 majority voting yes for the change, it does seem a little
> >>odd that we were looking for a greater than 50% of all possible voters.
> >
> > That's not different from how other referenda are decided.
> >
> > The best way to do it is to require a certain percentage of the electorate
> > to vote for or against a particular item.
>
> I disagree.
>
> A fundamental concept in the democratic process is the "vote" which allows
> the member of a given body or organization to express their opinion upon
> some governing subset. That subset ( elected officials :
> OGB/Congress/Political Party ) may then choose to ignore the "vote" if it
> is deemed to be unclear or not representative of the entire population.
Dennis, you seem to forget that there are voting rules that require 2/3 of all
people with voting permission to vote in favor of something.
This is usually the case when you like to change the constitution and this was
not reached in our case.
J?rg
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