Gerard Meijssen wrote:

Ray Saintonge wrote:

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Consider the folks who were at the meeting part of the "no" votes.

They should have voted where they were supposed to vote then.

An interesting observation. Is there a policy anywhere saying where people are "supposed" to vote?

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Hoi, When there is a vote, when this vote is considered in a meeting like it has, they should either put up or shut up. When a small group of people meets and decide on something, in essence this is just what happened: a small group of people who decided something. Nothing special in and of itself. Obviously they do not need to vote, but when they do not vote, they should not moan when their voice is not considered when the vote is evaluated.

Perhaps, but then those who did vote should not moan when the vote is not considered definitive and binding by others. Taking your reasoning to its logical conclusion, the only significance of a vote is that it had a certain result. The vote does not dictate a course of action or have any further consequences.

--Michael Snow