[vote] Update OpenWrt rules

[Daniel Golle]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 03:24:56PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-11-04 at 15:14 +0000, Daniel Golle wrote:
> > 
> > Example:
> > 
> > 9 votes for (A)
> > 4 votes for (B)
> > 8 votes neutral
> > 
> > In the currently proposed model, this would result in
> > 
> > (A) 9 + 0.5 * 8 = 13  (61.9%)
> > (B) 4 + 0.5 * 8 = 8   (38.1%)
> > 
> > While the ratio of the non-neutral votes was actually
> > 
> > 69% (A) vs. 31% (B)
> > 
> > If this had been a decission which required a 2/3rd majority, then
> > the neutral votes would have changed the outcome in this case.
> > 
> > What we can do is simply not count them but assume quorum is
> > reached once enough members indicated their mere awareness of the
> > voting process.
> > 
> > What Adrian probably means is that a "neutral" vote should be
> > counted as 0.69 for (A) and 0.31 for (B) rather than 0.5 for each.
> > In this way it would not change the outcome at all.
> 
> Yes. But I don't think we can use (A) and (B); it isn't multiple
> choice. I think you meant *yes* where you said (A) and *no* where you
> said (B). The two-thirds threshold is important in the yes/no model.
> 
> We should *discount* the neutral votes and count that the 9 yes votes
> are 9/13 == 69.2% of the total yes/no votes.
> 
> The more confusing way of doing it is to keep the neutral votes, and
> count them as 2/3 of a vote. So it's 9 + (8 * ⅔) == 14⅓ out of 21,
> which is 68.3%.
> 
> You don't have to count the neutral vote as *precisely* the same as the
> ratio between yes/no, because you don't have to avoid affecting the
> *numeric* result. You just have to avoid taking it across the 2/3
> threshold in either direction, so a neutral vote should mathematically
> be 2/3.
> 
> Congratulations, you found an even *more* confusing way to do it :)
> 
> We should just discount the neutral votes when evaluating the yes/no
> against the 2/3 threshold :)
> 

Of course, the only purpose of this 2nd-year-highschool-grade excercise
was to show that this is not the same as counting it as 0.5 for YES and
0.5 for NO.