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These are the current bylaws concerned with voting.
In C. Voting and Acceptance Criteria,
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10. Decisive and Non-decisive Votes.
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b. For Second Round votes to be decisive
and stop the record from going to third round, at least seven of the nine
Members must have voted and the results must be 5-2 (or higher – e.g.,
5-3, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3, 7-0, 7-1, 7-2, 8-1, 9-0) or 2-5 (or lower – e.g., 3-5,
1-6, 2-6, 3-6, 0-7, 1-7, 2-7, 1-8, 0-9) for the vote to be decisive. If it
is 4-3, 3-4, 4-4, 5-4, or 4-5, then the record goes to third round.
c. Third round votes have to change a 4-3 or 3-4 second round vote
for the vote to be decisive. At least seven of the nine Members must have
voted and the results must be 5-2 (or higher – e.g., 5-3, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3,
7-0, 7-1, 7-2, 8-1, 9-0) for the vote to be accepted; or 2-5 (or lower –
e.g., 3-5, 1-6, 2-6, 3-6, 0-7, 1-7, 2-7, 1-8, 0-9) for the vote to be
rejected. If it stays at 4-3, 3-4, 4-4, 5-4, or 4-5, vote then it is
considered rejected.
As you can see, these 2 paragraphs are cumbersome and
ambiguous. Following are 3 proposals, hopefully, to simply the wording and
remove any ambiguity.
Proposal 1 -
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10. Decisive and Non-decisive Votes.
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b. For Second Round votes to be decisive and stop the record from
going to a third round, at least seven of the nine Members must have
voted. If seven or eight members have voted there can be no more than 2
dissenting votes, either to accept or reject a sighting, to be decisive.
If all nine members have voted, there can be no more than 3 dissenting
votes to be decisive.
c. For Third Round votes to be decisive, at least seven of the nine
Members must have voted. If seven or eight members have voted, more than
2 votes to not accept a record will reject the sighting. If all nine
members have voted, more than 3 votes to not accept will reject the
sighting.
Proposal 2 -
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10. Decisive and Non-decisive Votes.
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b. For Second Round votes to be decisive and stop the record from
going to a third round, at least seven of the nine Members must have
voted. There can be no more than 2 dissenting votes, either to accept or
reject a sighting, to be decisive.
c. For Third Round votes to be decisive, at least seven of the nine
Members must have voted; more than 2 votes to not accept will reject the
sighting.
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Proposal 3 - would be to leave the bylaws as
they are.
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In summary, Proposal 1 provides for a decisive vote to
have a 3-vote (6-3 or 3-6) spread when 9 members vote, similar to a
3-point spread when 7 members vote (5-2 or 2-5). This seems to be more
equitable than having a 5-point spread (7-2 or 2-7) when all 9 members
vote. If only 8 members vote, a 6-2 or 2-6 vote is obviously more decisive
than a 5-3 or 3-5 vote.
Proposal 2 simplifies the process by allowing only 2 dissenting votes on a
sighting, regardless of whether 7, 8, or 9 members vote. This seems to
place a sighting at a disadvantage when all 9 members vote, of accepting
only 2 dissenting votes.
Proposal 3 is to keep the bylaws as at presently constituted, although the
ambiguity would still exist. The “5-2 or higher, or 2-5 or higher,” infers
a higher point spread, such as, 6-1, etc. But the 5-3 or 3-5 already in
place is actually a smaller point spread
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