On 03/27/2012 04:04 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Togan Muftuoglu
wrote: The goal of all of this is that the project is able to detect if an election or vote is valid, by defining that the vote needs for example a participation of more then 60% of 'active' members.
Never heard of an election being invalidated due to less than X percentage of than those eligible to vote. Those who vote are the basis of the calculation. Show me a democratic election where this above method as mentioned was applied.
Requiring a quorum be present before voting is standard practice for most organizations / bodies.
quorum - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum
If opensuse ever forms a entity, I'm sure the bylaws will require a quorum of potential voters participate for a vote to be valid. Hard to imagine it any other way.
If ever is the key word and it does not apply at the time being, hence when the time comes the founding members of such an entity can enforce such a requirement In the mean time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum#Germany "Germany In the German Bundestag at least half of the members (311 out of 622) must be present so that it is empowered to make resolutions.[16] Nevertheless, often fewer members are present. They still can make effective decisions as long as no parliamentary group or 5% of the members of the parliament are complaining about the lack of quorum." So it is not a must ;) Togan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org