nt off of their
own mare's nest.  So trust has become a factor in all
future warrants of what any vote will mean in practice.

In short, you do a disservice to those participant abstainers
to call their votes &quot;non-votes&quot;, and this is besides the fact
that such a description is inaccurate.  The ballot specified
the valid responses as being three.  The voters are persons
who cast ballots.  A majority is defined as 50% + 1 of the
total votes that were cast.

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