[CMC] Question re: recent CMC voting

Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:47:10 -0800

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At 09:17 AM 1/7/2004, Allan, PM (Peter) wrote:
>  When you say something has been approved, do you mean that 100% of those 
> who voted approved? Otherwise how can something be approved if there was 
> not a quorum?

My assumption is that if there are no disapprovals, something is approved. 
I have no knowledge of whether or not the CMC requires a quorum in order to 
declare a vote successful. That's why I asked the question.

>On MC-E03-14, why do you say there is no consensus? 100% of the votes were 
>cast for the Blue Book option. Admittedly it is not quorate, but that is 
>no different to the other polls.

In a private communication shortly before the departure of the Secretariat, 
it was my understanding that CSA had difficulty in accessing the voting 
site but in fact cast a vote for a Purple Book rather than a Blue Book, 
thus breaking consensus and rejecting the motion.

>I fear that the root cause of the shortage of votes is that the 
>announcement of the poll came out shortly before the Christmas holiday.

That may be, but the voting is now closed and in the absence of the 
Secretariat I do not know of any way to re-open it.

Best regards
Adrian

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At 09:17 AM 1/7/2004, Allan, PM (Peter) wrote: 
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>&nbsp;When
you say something has been approved, do you mean that 100% of those who
voted approved? Otherwise how can something be approved if there was not
a quorum?</blockquote> 
My assumption is that if there are no disapprovals, something is
approved. I have no knowledge of whether or not the CMC requires a quorum
in order to declare a vote successful. That's why I asked the
question. 
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>On
MC-E03-14, why do you say there is no consensus? 100% of the votes were
cast for the Blue Book option. Admittedly it is not quorate, but that is
no different to the other polls.</blockquote> 
In a private communication shortly before the departure of the
Secretariat, it was my understanding that CSA had difficulty in accessing
the voting site but in fact cast a vote for a Purple Book rather than a
Blue Book, thus breaking consensus and rejecting the motion. 
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>I
fear that the root cause of the shortage of votes is that the
announcement of the poll came out shortly before the Christmas holiday.
</blockquote> 
That may be, but the voting is now closed and in the absence of the
Secretariat I do not know of any way to re-open it. 
Best regards 
Adrian 
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