quorums
Voting attendance requirements
Quorums is the plural of quorum, the minimum number of members required for an organization to conduct official business.
A legislative body cannot vote without a quorum present.
Several committees failed to meet because they lacked quorums.
The word extends to any threshold of participation needed for legitimacy.
Over half of total
- votingFormally registering a choice
- motionChange in position
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
- assemblyConstructing from components
chamber · attendance · roll call · deliberation · proceedings · convene · adjourn · present
Flat rigid panel
- directorsThose who lead organizations
- shareholdersOwners of company stock
- bylawsOrganization's internal regulations
- annual meetingRecurring yearly organizational assembly
proxy · governance · fiduciary · minutes · ratification · stockholders · charter · executive committee
General group agreement
- nodesPoints of connection
- validatorsTools that confirm compliance
- distributedDivided and given out
- thresholdPoint of beginning
voting power · delegation · proposal · snapshot · decentralized · protocol · stake · smart contract
Legal proceeding overseers
- panelDistinct flat section
- benchShared seating surface
- tribunalJudicial decision-making body
- appellateRelating to appeals
justices · deliberation · opinion · ruling · majority opinion · dissent · concurrence · sitting
Jewish prayer quorum
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- synodChurch governing assembly
- councilAdvisory deliberative group
- eldersSenior community members
deacons · vestry · presbytery · ecclesiastical · canonical · consistory · chapter · convocation
majority
Over half of total
- votingFormally registering a choice
- motionChange in position
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
assembly · chamber · attendance · roll call · deliberation · proceedings · convene · adjourn · present · absent
board
Flat rigid panel
- directorsThose who lead organizations
- shareholdersOwners of company stock
- bylawsOrganization's internal regulations
annual meeting · proxy · governance · fiduciary · minutes · ratification · stockholders · charter · executive committee · voting rights
consensus
General group agreement
- nodesPoints of connection
- validatorsTools that confirm compliance
- distributedDivided and given out
threshold · voting power · delegation · proposal · snapshot · decentralized · protocol · stake · smart contract · ratification
judges
Legal proceeding overseers
appellate · justices · deliberation · opinion · ruling · majority opinion · dissent · concurrence · sitting · constitutional court
minyan
Jewish prayer quorum
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- synodChurch governing assembly
- councilAdvisory deliberative group
elders · deacons · vestry · presbytery · ecclesiastical · canonical · consistory · chapter · convocation · diocese
- conventionsconvention, conventions, delegates, conference, attendee
- legislationbills, acts, laws, statutes, bill
quorumsabsences
States of being away
non-attendance · boycotts · walkouts · no-shows · absenteeism
- quorum rulesStandards for valid assembly