[Northkeep] Principality Poll

[Burke McCrory]

At 11:08 AM 7/6/2001 -0400, you wrote:
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>In a message dated 7/6/01 7:35:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> > If they didn't respond does their vote count then?
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>        Since approval of a status change requires the support of a majority
>of all the paid members in the region then having more than half the members
>not voting weighs against the change.
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>Robert

Not quite true actually.  A formal poll would require a significant
majority of the responding paid members to vote in favor, not of all the
paid members living in the region.  Like all polls, getting a return rate
of 40% to 45% is considered very good.  So it would be possible to have
less than 50% of all members in favor but 80% of respondents in favor.  In
a formal poll the fact that a member doesn't respond is not automatically
mean a no vote.

Sir Burke