Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Darn zero-based Clock... (nweek 4 ballot)

[Rob Speer <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:32:04PM +0000, David E. Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Rob Speer wrote:
> 
> > Are you looking at the same proposal I am? The one which would make it
> > so that proposals only need a 1/3 majority to pass?
> 
> Obviously not, since it's a 2/3 majority.

"at least half again as many affirmative as negative votes"

For one thing, I don't know what the word "again" is doing there. But if
a proposal gets half as many affirmative as negative votes, then the
affirmative votes are 1/3 of the total votes.
-- 
Rob Speer