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3. Absentions would have been the equivalent of a "no" vote, given they were present & still count

Sat Feb 13, 2021, 08:26 PM

Feb 2021

in the denominator (and thus the 2/3 of 100 = required 67 to convict)

Only had they not shown up for the vote, would that have helped.

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For most of them, I think that your assumption is correct. n/t Laelth Feb 2021 #1

That would have seemed more proper... consider_this Feb 2021 #2