First Senate - Legislation Voting

[The Lemongate]

Abstained on that legislation. I thought it better to put yes and no. Cancelled my vote.

I wasn't supposed to?

[TinCow]

If you want to abstain on a vote, simply skip it altogether. I will subtract both of your 1.7 votes from the final tally.

[The Lemongate]

If you want to abstain on a vote, simply skip it altogether. I will subtract both of your 1.7 votes from the final tally.

No problem. Though I felt canceling one's vote made it clearer we abstained as it was easier to find the double name then trying to discover who didn't vote.

Abstaining can be a statement

[TinCow]

It's tradition to simply skip both choices if you want to abstain. That's why the "I abstain on all laws" option is there... if it wasn't and you skipped everything, there would be no way to know you had voted at all.

[Zim]

While it wouldn't really matter for edicts, which need a simple majority, voting for both choices could mess up the percentaged for an amendment (23 majority I believe).

To use a somewhat extreme example pretend that, for some reason, only 3 Senators voted on amendment x, 2 for and 1 against. It should pass at this point, but a fourth senator abstains by voting for both, which throws off the percentages shown for the poll.

This case would be easy enough to fix, but if you add a ton more senators and more players voting for both options to abstain and TinCow has to search every edict/amendment for double votes so he can subtract them and figure out the percentages.

[The Lemongate]

I see. I didn't though about all that. Mathematics give me headaches

I will abstain from abstaining in such a complicated matter and will simply abstain totally from voting when abstaining. Uh... something like that

[TinCow]

The voting period has ended.

All legislation has passed.

[Privateerkev]

Abstained on that legislation. I thought it better to put yes and no. Cancelled my vote.

I wasn't supposed to?

I was just curious. I didn't know we could vote both.

I just don't vote on it when I want to abstain. (Which is what Makedonios did with Edict 1.7)