[vote] Update OpenWrt rules

David Lang david at lang.hm
Mon Oct 27 16:52:36 PDT 2025


David Woodhouse wrote:

>> As a basic example, if 10 people vote, 4 for, 2 against and 4
>> neutral, although the vote would fail, a reintroduction of the same
>> question with the claim that "it got majority support, just not
>> enough voters"
>
> The statement that "it got majority support" would be true. The voters
> who cast a neutral vote, after seeing 4 "yes" and 2 "no" votes, would
> have done so deliberately, knowing that the motion had majority support
> and that their vote does not change that.
>
> The idea is to have three active vote possibilities: "yes", "no", and
> "whatever". And it's important to allow for the latter when we also
> want to ensure that we have a sufficient quorum for decisions, and set
> it apart from simply failing to vote.

then call it 'don't care' rather than abstain.

David Lang
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