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2018 Quorum Reduction Vote (view source)
Revision as of 15:58, 29 October 2018
, 15:58, 29 October 2018no edit summary
By reducing quorum to 10%, the default specified in the Illinois General Not For Profit Corporation Act, then virtually every vote will meet quorum. Persons opposing a vote can no longer gamble on it failing to make quorum, and instead will have an incentive to vote No and convince others to do likewise. This will make opposition to each vote explicit. And it likely will result in decisive actions on each proposal, not the repeated limbo of repeated votes we have been observing.
By reducing quorum to 10%, the default specified in the Illinois General Not For Profit Corporation Act, then virtually every vote will meet quorum. Persons opposing a vote can no longer gamble on it failing to make quorum, and instead will have an incentive to vote No and convince others to do likewise. This will make opposition to each vote explicit. And it likely will result in decisive actions on each proposal, not the repeated limbo of repeated votes we have been observing.
=== Example ===
Assume the organization has 120 full members. Quorum is therefore 40.
Assume a vote has 35 yes votes and 3 no votes. The vote would fail due to lack of quorum.
Now assume both Alice and Bob dislike the vote. If they both cast no votes, the vote tally will be 35 to 5, and the vote passes.
It follows that Alice and Bob's optimal action in this case would be not to vote. But then that raises difficult philosophical questions. Why should Alice and Bob, who are entitled to a total of two votes, be able to negate the yes votes of 35 members?
=== The Current Non-Voting Members Procedure is Difficult to Implement ===
=== The Current Non-Voting Members Procedure is Difficult to Implement ===
== Timeline ==
== Timeline ==
* First rough draft posted: 10/23/2018
* First rough draft posted: 10/23/2018
* Vote template added: TBD
* Vote template added: 10/23/2018
* Language locked: TBD
* Language locked: 10/29/2018
* Submitted to Secretary for scheduling: TBD
* Submitted to Secretary for scheduling: 10/29/2018
* Vote scheduled for; TBD
* Vote scheduled for; 11/6/2018
* Vote first conducted: TBD
* Vote first conducted: TBD
* Outcome of vote: TBD
* Outcome of vote: TBD