[wplug-plan] Making the big changes

[Pat Barron]

On 12/06/2012 10:34 AM, Vance Kochenderfer wrote:
> The question then is put to the membership by absentee ballot.  If
> only one member casts a ballot, and votes in favor, then the
> amendment is passed 1-0.  So the bylaws could be amended with only
> a single person's vote!  If some members vote against, then at
> least twice as many "yes" votes as "no" votes are needed for the
> amendment to be adopted: a 2/3 vote.
>
> So for an amendment that has no opposition, the vote of a single
> member is all that is necessary to modify the bylaws, and three
> additional members are just needed as warm bodies to be present at
> the membership meetings.

Ah - if that is the intent, then that is indeed my misconception. My 
read of "2/3 vote" has always been "2/3 of those eligible to cast 
ballots must vote in favor", rather than "2/3 of ballots actually cast 
must vote in favor".

--Pat.