Re: [gnso-restruc-dt] Q18 on thresholds - chairs and vice chairs

[Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am not favoring any particular solution.

Perhaps your suggestion, if you can't get 60% , then try 50%  in both  
is ok.
But then I ask, why try 60% in the first place?  If we are willing to  
settle for 50% why try for 60%.
Another possibility might be that the 2 v-chairs share the job until  
you someone gets the 60%.
Or maybe the backup would be a staff member asked to coordinate until  
such time as someone was successfully elected.

a.

On 15 May 2009, at 13:22, Philip Sheppard wrote:

> I am confused by our logic here.
>
> The reason for a 60% of both House threshold it to get a chair that  
> has popular support.
> The alternative is a majority vote system that always produces a  
> result eventually.
> What is the logic then in saying if we fail to get popular support  
> we should accept a chair
> imposed upon us who be definition has zero support?
>
> Either we pursue a system of popular support or we do not.
>
> Philip