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     Traditional  parliamentary  rules lead assemblies  to
consider  one question at a time and move  people  towards
taking  opposing  sides in answering each question  either
YES  or  NO,    YEA or NAY.   An action is  taken  by  the
assembly when a majority of those who participate say  YES
or YEA.

     There  are a number of weaknesses in the  traditional
parliamentary  way  of framing questions and  voting  upon
them:

     1.  The  traditional way does not encourage people to
COMPARE many alternatives.

     2.  The traditional way does not ask participants  to
RANK  ORDER the alternatives in the order they  should  be
focused upon, in order of priority.

     3.  It  is difficult  under  the traditional rules to
DISCUSS the RELATIVE  MERITS  of  a significant number  of
alternatives.

     4.  Participants are not asked to vote in a way which
lets  them indicate how  they as  individuals  would  rank
order  the  alternatives  in regards to relative merit for
adoption or rejection.

     5.   Participants are not  asked to to clearly assess
the  propriety  of asking the question which is put before
the assembly, and to vote accordingly.

     In the traditional parliamentary rules the meaning of
ABSTAIN  is  not  clearly  defined so  as  to  distinguish
between two cases:

     Case A:   Exists when the  choice  between supporting
the  proposition and opposing the proposition is  a  clear
choice which entails no  false  assumptions,  fuzzy logic,
confusion, or dis-integrative ideals/values.

  YES:     To support the recommendation made.

  Abstain: To equivocate because there is no
           compelling reason for choosing YES or NO.

  NO:      To oppose the recommendation made.

     Case B:   False assumptions,  fuzzy logic,  confusion
and/or dis-integrative  ideals/values are present  in  the
framing  of  the question which is to be voted  on.    The
question needs to be re-framed,  re-stated,  re-formulated
or   in   some  other  way  revised  to  eliminate   false
assumptions, fuzzy logic, confusion and/or dis-integrative
ideals/values.

   YES:  Has no clear meaning and should be avoided.

   ABSTAIN  To object to the question being asked.

   NO:  Has no clear meaning and should be avoided.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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