Originally Posted by
kipper
...There was minimal outrage when someone else missed a vote, and granted, the motion was going to pass anyway, but that was failure to perform one's duty too, and there were all of 2 people, neither of them TB members, who posted, wanting an explanation.
Yes, "...granted, the motion was going to pass anyway...." That's hardly an insignificant fact. In that earlier instance, the member forgot to vote, but her vote did not affect the outcome. So the level of outrage was, shall we say, muted.
In this case, the missed vote was pivotal, critically important. It still is! If we only knew how
MSPeconomist would have voted, had she not fallen asleep, then we would know if the motion was going to pass or not. That would tell me, at least, whether to simply resubmit the motion for a revote.
If I see another person ask why there is outrage this time and not last time a vote was missed, I'll respond by simply quoting this post. That's efficient.
Bruce