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When you say "approval voting" do you mean unanimous consent? Approval voting is a method for elections, and off the top of my head I can't think of any way it
by lazulicurio 7y ago
When you say "approval voting" do you mean unanimous consent? Approval voting is a method for elections, and off the top of my head I can't think of any way it could be applied to a yes/no motion.
- specialist 7y agoSorry for being vague. With our bylaws and RRO, the order endorsements are considered is critical, and arbitrary. Lots of hurt feelings. Now we suspend the rules, consider all endorsements en masse (voice vote, tabulated if needed), which stack ranks the order, then resume RRO. Resulting in the endorsements with the greatest support being considered first. FWIW, I proposed this change based on my workplace voting experiments. Such as using approval voting for triage to expedite determining priority. I'm very excited to read crazygringo's links above, gleen other useful ideas. Governance is just another technology. Ripe for innovation.
- lazulicurio 7y agoThanks for taking the time to explain. Hearing about regular use of unusual motions (e.g. suspend the rules) tends to pique my skepticism. From the way you described it, having a special method for deciding the order of voting on endorsements does sound reasonable. Just so many times when I see people complaining about Robert's Rules it's not about the rules themselves but about organization-specific issues or about people being dicks (which can happen regardless of the parliamentary authority used).