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 <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 17:09, Peter Neale via Tagging ><tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote: "abstain /əbˈsteɪn/verb[...] Powered by Oxford Dictionaries" 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. -- >Paul
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