<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div dir="ltr">sent from a phone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">Il giorno 16 feb 2020, alle ore 13:42, Hauke Stieler <mail@hauke-stieler.de> ha scritto:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Hi all,</span><br><span></span><br><span>thanks for all the feedback and voting. The proposal for tax free</span><br><span>shopping and the "duty_free" tag has been approved: 13 votes, 2 against,</span><br><span>1 abstain.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Currently there's a discussion ongoing about the calculation when there</span><br><span>are "abstain" votes. So here are some approval calculations all leading</span><br><span>to an approval of the proposal:</span><br><span></span><br><span>* Support with "abstain" counted as "oppose": 10/13 = 77%</span><br><span>* Support with "abstain" counted as "approve": 11/13 = 85%</span><br><span>* Support without "abstain" in the vote count: 10/12 = 83%</span><br></div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>there never was a question whether abstentions could count as approval, the question was whether they count as “votes”, e.g. to determine if the quorum was reached:</div><div><br></div><div>“<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> A rule of thumb for "enough support" is </span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 23px;">8 unanimous approval votes or at least 10 votes with more than 74 % approval</i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, ”</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to how we usually counted, it would be 10 approvals out of 13 votes.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><font color="#222222" face="sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 23px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cheers Martin </span></font></div></body></html>