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The plan is to have a line item ballot with three questions.

Essentially:

Do you approve modification A Yes____ No_____.

Do you approve modification B Yes____ No_____.

Do you approve modification C Yes____ No_____.

How are completely blank ballots treated?

How are ballots that have 1 or 2 of the questions blank and the rest answered treated?

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How are completely blank ballots treated?

"Treated"?

Like so much "scrap paper." [page 401]

How are ballots that have 1 or 2 of the questions blank and the rest answered treated?

Each question stands on its own, it is its own "ballot", in theory.

So, for example, for #A, there may be 8 ballots cast; for #B, there may be 11 ballots cast; for #C, there may be 14 ballots cast.

In my example, when you calculate a majority for #B, you don't count #A and #C ballots, as they are independent of #B.

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The plan is to have a line item ballot with three questions.

Essentially:

Do you approve modification A Yes____ No_____.

Do you approve modification B Yes____ No_____.

Do you approve modification C Yes____ No_____.

It should be written as it would be stated in a motion, "That X be modified by A."

If these modifications conflict so that all cannot win, they should not be offered in yes/no form.

How are completely blank ballots treated?

They are ignored.

How are ballots that have 1 or 2 of the questions blank and the rest answered treated?

For each question, votes are counted; blanks are ignored.

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