SB> There is a reason that real-world politics count abstentions SB> along with yes and no votes. It has to be a majority vote; the SB> majority of *all* votes, including abstentions, must be either SB> yes or no.
This is not correct, at least for elections that I'm familiar with, in the USA. We count *ONLY* YES votes. You do not need a majority of all votes, you simply need more YES votes than the number of YES votes that your opponent gets. That's it. There are no NO votes, and there are millions of abstentions, which just means.... nothing.
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