[AFS3-std] Second Draft of Standardisation Document

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

--On Wednesday, August 27, 2008 03:39:44 PM +0100 Simon Wilkinson 
<simon@sxw.org.uk> wrote:

>
> On 26 Aug 2008, at 23:16, Buhrmaster, Gary wrote:
>> There is no specific remedy for a tie in voting results
>> (it *could* happen - arm wrestling anyone?)
>
> So, what would a suitable remedy for this be?
>
> Rerunning the election, in whatever form, is likely to be time consuming,
> and probably result in a vanishingly small turnout the second time round.
> Should we just give the outgoing chair a casting vote?

No, I don't think that's a good idea; the outgoing chair might be running 
for reelection.  You might give that power to the returning chair, if there 
is one, and otherwise to the outgoing chair, if he is not running. 
However, that doesn't cover cases where there is no chair available to act 
as vote-taker, including the bootstrapping case.

-- Jeff