Restructuring the Landsraad VI: Abstentions

[Scott of Hyperborea]

"Fifty percent of the votes cast must be in the affirmative"

What about abstentions? Didn't we have this problem with a similar law back in the time of Kaiser Raynor XI? If 40% of votes are yes, 20% are no, and 50% are abstain, the bill should still pass. This way effectively turns an abstain into a "nay" vote.

I suggest rephrasing it to "if there are a greater number of affirmative than negative votes" (or, if you want to retain the original sorta weird exactly-half language, "an equal or greater number of affirmative than negative votes")

Also, may I suggest to the Praetor (or if the Praetor's off doing her own thing, I'll do it myself if the Kaiser gives me permission) that the various bills before the Landsraad now be given clear titles? It's REALLY hard for me to keep up with "Restructuring the Landsraad MMDCCXVI" or "New Feudalism IV", and that's even WITH a knowledge of Latin numerals. What about something like "Restructuring the Landsraad XXIII: Tie-Breaking Procedure" or some kinda subtitle like that?

[Kaiseress Semisa I]

The naming convention would have included that except for ezBoard's thread title limit.

And welcome to the Praetorship, Count Scott.

[AngelGuardian93]

I can agree with that, Scott.

[Delphi]

It makes sense. I remember back in the day, the "solution" we had in Antica for this problem was to eliminate the abstention vote altogether, so there could be no ambiguity, but this might work better.

[Kaiseress Semisa I]

We already tried that, but some people didn't like not having an abstain.