Revote on arbitration policy amendments ends in failure
A second vote, held in an effort to implement some amendments to the arbitration policy, ended last week with none of the proposed amendments meeting the criteria for passage.
At stake in this referendum were a number of different changes to the provisions of the arbitration policy, each being voted on separately. Many of the changes were proposed in order to bring the formal policy in line with the actual practices of the Arbitration Committee.
The vote started on 14 March after a controversy over the implementation of the previous vote, and ran through last Monday, 28 March. Each different amendment needed to have 80% support, with at least 100 total votes, in order to pass. While some of the changes had enough support in terms of percentage, none managed to reach the 100-vote threshold.
Three proposed changes would have passed if percentage alone had been the standard. The first of these would have added a reference to other forms of dispute resolution besides mediation, while the other two were intended to confirm the current format in which arbitration is handled in terms of using subpages and the organization of arbitration rulings.