Originally Posted by
wharvey
Simple and direct question: What Talkboard procedure did this person violate? As I understand it, choosing to NOT vote is not an issue unless three consecutives votes are missed.
The issue of the "non-vote" is getting mixed up and thrown/blown all out of proportion.....
It's really very simple-
- A TB member votes "yes"
- A TB member votes "no"
- A TB member "abstains"
- A TB member doesn't vote because they (for whatever reason) missed the voting deadline
- A TB member doesn't vote because they didn't want to vote
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- Acceptable
- Acceptable
- Acceptable-tho there should be a reason given (i.e. some sort of conflict of interest) and the reason should be made public
- Not acceptable
- Not acceptable
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What happened was item #4 and imho, if the member wants to explain how they would have voted had they in fact voted, that's up to them but if not, again imho, it should be left at that and it's time to move on either by TB re-submitting the motion if they believe they will have enough votes for the motion to pass of let it die