User:Anton Sweeney/Referenda draft

Voting in elections to the Management Council and in referenda to amend the Charter begins on June 10, 2011 at 00:01 GMT and ends on JUNE 17, 2011 at 23:59 Pago-Pago, American Samoa, time (10:59 UTC, June 18).

The list of nominees for the Management Council election can be found here.

Voting in the Management Council election takes place here.

Referenda
At time of writing, four valid proposals to amend the Citizendium Charter have been made. Each will be decided by referenda, in which all Citizens in good standing may vote, between the times and dates outlined above.

The four proposals are:

Proposal A
Add to Article 29:

3. Any member of the Management Council or Editorial Council may resign at any time for any reason. The resignation may be made publicly or privately to the Councils. The resignation becomes effective the moment that the Chair of the Management Council or the Secretary of the Editorial Council accepts the resignation and announces the acceptance of the resignation in the official Council Forums. The moment that a resignation is formalized in that manner, that office is thereby vacant and must be filled according to the Charter.

Instructions for voting in the Referenda
In order to vote:

A.) Each Citizen should look at the various links on the left-hand side of this page and then scroll down to the '''"E-mail this user" link quite near the bottom. B.) Click on that link. C.) That will open up a page called E-mail user. D.) In the message box, type in the title of any of the proposals you wish to vote on - one on each line - and next to each proposal, type "Yes" or "No".

Proposal W Yes Proposal Y No Proposal Z Yes

Note: You may vote for or against as many proposals as you wish, but need not cast a vote for or against all proposals. In the example above, no vote has been cast for Proposal X.

E.) Click on the Send button at the bottom.

And that's it -- you have just cast your secret ballot!

Counting of votes in the Referenda
The total number of votes validly cast for a particular referendum shall be used to calculate both a majority (affirmative votes equalling or exceeding one half of that total) and a qualified majority (affirmative votes equalling or exceeding two thirds of that total).

All referenda shall be considered as independent questions and only the total number of votes validly cast for a specific referendum shall be used when calculating a majority or qualified majority for it.