&gt;To elect James Schoening Chair of the SUO Working Group.
&gt;Your responses MUST be in the form of  "For", "Against" and "Abstain".

"MUST" ?  I believe that there is no way any organization, even IEEE, 
can compel its members to vote. I will not take part in this 
meaningless charade. I would suggest that the most sensible 
interpretation of a lack of voting would be to count it an an 
"Abstain", that being, approximately, the meaning of the word.

Pat Hayes

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