Thanks for actually taking the time to look up the references. It's been disappointing reading through this comment thread to see people ragging on Robert's Rul

Thanks for actually taking the time to look up the references. It's been disappointing reading through this comment thread to see people ragging on Robert's Rules for things that aren't really its fault. It's like complaining about how terrible hammers are because the claw end makes it so difficult to drive nails. I did wonder about the number of abstentions. Also, the fact that there were only 61 votes total. Which indicates either that the organization wasn't that big, or that this was at a convention. From Wikipedia "white SNCC members were asked to leave the organization in December 1966. The vote, characterized by some as 'expelling' whites and by others as 'asking whites to work against racism in white communities,' was extremely close; 19 Aye, 18 Nay, and 24 abstentions"[1]. I'm not entirely sure what to make of it, but it sounds like there was a lot going on to understand the context of the vote. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee#Stokely_Carmichael_as_chair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Nonviolent_Coordinatin...