[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - give box

[Peter Neale]

Oh, so, the Wiki doesn't use standard British English then.....?   Hmmm.  
Your final comment reminds me of my IT Course.  "Definition of Recursion: See Recursion". ;-)
Regards,Peter

   >On Thursday, 6 February 2020, 17:39:35 GMT, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 >On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 17:09, Peter Neale via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:


"abstain  /əbˈsteɪn/verb[...]
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So an abstention is NOT a vote

>I thought I gave a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstention>but I must have forgotten.  I'll include the relevant parts here.

> Abstention is a term in election procedure for when a participant in a vote either does not go to vote (on election day) or, in parliamentary procedure, is present during the vote, but does not cast a ballot.[1] Abstention must be contrasted with "blank vote", in which a voter casts a ballot willfully made invalid by marking it wrongly or by not marking anything at all. A "blank (or white) voter" has voted, although their vote may be considered a spoilt vote, 

>So what we have in the approval process, despite being called an abstention,>is NOT an abstention.  It's a blank vote, aka white vote, because a ballot has>been cast.  The wiki confuses the terms "ballot" and "vote" in places, as well>as misusing the term "abstention."

>Also, 
>Abstentions do not count in tallying the vote negatively or positively; when members abstain, they are in effect attending only to contribute to a quorum. White votes, however, may be counted in the total of votes, depending on the legislation. 
>The "legislation" (in this case past consensus of how things operate) was that>blank/white votes ARE counted in the total of votes.  Whether that should be the>case going forward is something we could vote on.  After we've voted on the>rules for voting.  After we've voted on the rules for voting on the rules for>voting.

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>Paul
  
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