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There has been considerable discussion on the "requirements" list over the past two weeks regarding a "JOS Constitution Lite" to deal primarily with voting issues. I have attempted to formulate the voting alternatives discussed into a set of cohesive, representative documents. I have also attempted to minimally reword some of the non-voting verbiage to accommodate some objections that were posted to the requirements list. I thought I might reduce the alternatives to 2, named "active abstain" and "passive abstain". "Active abstain" means that there are 4 possible ways to vote: "yes", "no", "neither", and "abstain with explanation", all of which count towards quorum. "Passive abstain" eliminates the "abstain with explanation" as a vote, and assumes that registered voters who do not cast a ballot are in abstention. When I started to outline the options I realized a major issue of voting mechanics had not been discussed - multiple choice, or pick list ballots. Some issues will likely best fit, or even require, this type of voting, for example, choosing a constitution from among multiple documents;>) Therefore, I have added a "pick list" variant to each of the two proposed alternative constitutions. I have attempted to make the options on each variant consistant with its parent, I may have succeeded. Each of these proposals draws heavily on Matt Caswell's original document, and still contains much of his wording verbatim. Hopefully this presentation will allow us to vote on and implement a constitution soon so that we can move on to other issues. The differences between alternatives are confined to Article IV, if you'd like to "cut to the quick".

These are the proposed alternative Constitutions Lite:

1. Active Abstain without Pick List Option
2. Active Abstain with Pick List Option
3. Passive Abstain without Pick List Option
4. Passive Abstain with Pick List Option

Proposed items for policy book, to date

1. Voting membership shall be based on a Majordomo email "vote information" list that is separate from the main project list, and is exclusively for proposals, seconds, discussions and related posts. Members shall register to vote by subscribing to this list, and "unregister" by resigning from it.

2. The current membership level can be obtained from a "who" command to this list.

3. Using that value we shall base a quorum level as a % of the number of subscribers on the list.

4. The adminstrator for a specific vote will perform the "who" operation and subsequent quorum calculation as soon as practicable prior to beginning actual voting.

5. Temporary Call for Votes procedure is to mail the proposed vote to jos-cfv@adric.com

6. {change in vote corroboration procedure goes here}

7. {reasonable attempt to publish vote results defined here}

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