Joe Delahaye -> Michiel van der Vlist wrote:

 >> It is an excellent rule. It prevents a small group of dissidents from
 >> organising a referendum when the majority is on holliday, seeing that
 >> as few people as possible are informed about it, rally up a bus load of pro
 >> voters ram their favorite item through.

 >> A quorum prevents such a "coup".


 JD> It did not do so in the case of FN_Sysop though.

Of course it did - it took a majority of eligible voters to topple the
encumbant draconian regime. The election was widely advertised for quite
some weeks. Going by the number of naysayers at the time, not too many were
on holiday.


 JD> If you are going to do the above, then it is easy enough to get
enough people together to
 JD> make a quorum.  Thus whatever safeguards you thought you had, are
 JD> lost.

Welcome to democracy

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regards

David

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