[Tagging] Clarify explicit abstention when voting on a proposal

[Markus]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 15:06, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> However, despite the option being labelled an abstention, it is NOT an abstention.
> Technically, it is a "spoiled ballot."  Spoiled ballots DO contribute to a quorum in
> most voting systems. [...]

Really? Wikipedia says [1]:

In voting, a ballot is considered spoilt, spoiled, void, null,
informal, invalid or stray if a law declares or an election authority
determines that it is invalid and thus **not included in the vote
count**.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoilt_vote

I can confirm this for Switzerland (for elections and votings by the
people and in the parliaments).

> As I see it, we have three options:
>
> 1. Treat it as an abstention, and continue to call it an abstention.  It does
> not count towards the quorum.  In which case it should appear separately
> from the yes/no votes (or at least placed before yes/no votes) to avoid confusion.
> The talk page would theoretically be the best place for abstentions, but
> practically would mean that any points raised would be less likely to be
> seen by other voters.  Approval would be based on total yes/no votes
> and ratio of yes to no votes.

+1 for option 1

Markus aka SelfishSeahorse