Originally Posted by
bdschobel
Interesting. But if all nine positions are filled, as is normally true, then the only majority votes (with a quorum) that would fail to pass a motion are 5-3 and 5-4. So, basically, what was at stake was those two outcomes and nothing more.
I wonder if we've ever had a 5-3 or 5-4 vote on a motion? I'm too lazy to go back through the history.
Bruce
We've had 5-4s before - not sure if many.
Originally Posted by
exilencfc
It does sound needlessly complicated to me
Yes/no. While it was probably complicated to sort out (and there are lots of threads in the forum if you want to read about it/have insomnia
), it's been like this for a while now & works.
I figured
bdschobel was bored which is why he's posted the analysis.
Cheers.