I totally agree. Staying up very late in the hope that some gem of wisdom might be posted to influence your vote is just silly. If the one non-voter had simply bitten the bullet and voted a few hours earlier, we wouldn't be embarrassed -- and neither would she -- and we might very well have passed this motion!!! (I am not going to assume that she would have voted no, and she has not indicated how she would have voted if she hadn't fallen asleep.)

By the way, nobody has said this yet -- and a formal announcement will be forthcoming -- but the motion failed to pass on a 5-3 favorable vote. Motions need two-thirds support to pass, and this one had 62.5%, not enough. It's really unfortunate, in my opinion. People complain about ad hoc handling of amendments and corrections, so we write a procedure to avoid that and it fails to pass. What now? It's very discouraging.

Bruce