RE: [atlarge-discuss] Quorum: Members said

["Dassa" <dassa@dhs.org>]

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Joop Teernstra [mailto:terastra@terabytz.co.nz]
|> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 10:42 PM
|> To: dassa@dhs.org; atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de
|> Subject: RE: [atlarge-discuss] Quorum: Members said
|>
|>
|> At 12:29 a.m. 15/06/2003, Dassa wrote:
|> >With a quorum you are talking about the
|> >smallest number of members you would trust to make an informed vote.
|>
|> Quorum is not about an informed vote, it is about a
|> *representative* vote. Quorum is at the heart of all
|> democratic decisions.
|>
|> In Australia the idea is taken so seriously that voting is
|> compulsory for
|> all citizens.
|>
|>   Perhaps 9 would be a good figure
|> >all could agree with?
|>
|> I could.
|> But absent panel members could frustrate the vote if they
|> would be allowed to.

By informed I meant both a personal knowledge of the subject but also
knowing the will of the members respresented.  Compulsory voting here in
Australia is not about quorums so much as making sure we get true
representation a slightly different perspective but the point is noted.

I would think with restrictions on the number of votes missed it would
help with any problems of non-voting frustrations.

Whatever works.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch



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