<div dir="ltr">Hi Martin,<div><br></div><div>According to wikipedia <br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">"Abstentions do not </span><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">count</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> in tallying the </span><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">vote</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> negatively or positively; when members </span><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">abstain</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">, they are in effect attending only to contribute to a quorum. "</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Do you think abstention should be equivalent to a no vote for the final tally ?</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Best regards,</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Stuart </span></div><div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 10:30, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Do., 13. Feb. 2020 um 08:37 Uhr schrieb European Water Project <<a href="mailto:europeanwaterproject@gmail.com" target="_blank">europeanwaterproject@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>An opinion from an OSM neophyte</div><div><br></div><div>Abstain should mean just that .. either no vote .. or a blank vote.. <br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>which is a great difference according to how we count. We used to count it as "blank vote" (i.e. not explicitly in favor), while seing it as no vote would mean it wouldn't be counted (as participation in voting).</div><div><br></div><div><div></div><div>if you do not want to "vote", simply do not vote / do not fill in the voting template. You can still comment on the proposal, even on the single votes, and reply to comments by others. <br></div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"> </div></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Martin<br></div></div>
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