Re: GRs, irrelevant amendments, and insincere voting
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- Subject: Re: GRs, irrelevant amendments, and insincere voting
- From: Raul Miller <moth@magenta.com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 02:45:52 -0500
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- In-reply-to: <20031031181051.GG28240@deadbeast.net>; from branden@debian.org on Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 01:10:51PM -0500
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 01:10:51PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> If it does, and is reasked, what's to stop a group of 6 people[1] from
> proposing an "amendment" that guts the original proposal down to nothing
> but uncontroversial cosmetic alterations?
Nothing.
At that point you have an amendment, which (presuming 6 is sufficient
at that time) will be included on the ballot.
If a sufficient majority (many more than 6) votes for that amendment,
it wins. Otherwise, it doesn't win.
> This transforms our majoritarian system into one where a very small
> minority has veto power over any proposal -- even ones supposedly
> subject to a regular majority vote.
How is an amendment appearing on the ballot equivalent to a veto?
--
Raul
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