At the end of the date, each of the nine members of TB have an equal vote... three people voted "NO"; any one of them could have voted "YES" and this would be a non issue... or one of the five could have voted "NO" then the final non-cast vote would be irrelevant.

At the end of the day, the vote failed. It failed because three people voted no and one person did not vote. So, there are four people to blame for the vote failure. It is unfair to blame one person who did not vote.

If I were the non-voter, I might not want to say how I would vote right now based on the "attacks" that have happened here. One way to find out is to place the motion up for vote again; stop talking about a "wasted two weeks" and just vote already... or let it go.