->     This should not be, see below.


I set the rules and that is how the votes will be counted.


->    50% is not a majority, it is a tie.   A majority is anything more
->    than 50%.

->    Also, it is not best practice to count "abstain" votes as if they
->    were "no" votes.  What they are is simply acknowledgement of the
->    process, not a vote.   In this case where R*s are voting on up to 30
->    candidates, I would expect that they might reasonably be expect to
->    vote "YES" for those they liked, "NO" for
those they thought were not
->    qualified, and leave blank (i.e. "ABSTAIN") those about
whom they are
->    ambivalent.


->                         dale (at) min (dot) net
->                               (1:261/1466)
->                   Co-Moderator, National Cooking Echo


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