The electronic voting results from this month’s meeting of General Synod are now available online. These contain the names of voting members and how they voted.
David Lamming has compiled a spreadsheet summarising the outcomes of these votes which he has kindly provided to us. Some votes were counts of the whole Synod, but he has extracted the voting figures for each house.
The full text of motions can be found in the official record of Business Done.
It would be disappointing to let this item pass without at least recognition in the form of a thank you to David Lamming for compiling this spreadsheet. It reveals the ‘value’ of being able to call for ‘a vote by houses’ (could it be a form of gerrymandering?) or of the whole house to reach the result desired by whoever worked out the odds/ knew their Synod. Sadly to me, this kind of manipulation serves the Machiavellian at the expense of those new to the machinations of Synodical ‘process’, Standing Orders, etc- which IIRC was ‘required’ to be stated if… Read more »
Yes, many thanks are due to David for this, and also for his splendid work in safeguarding, it’s greatly appreciated.
Thankyou indeed to David Lamming. Hopefully the 3 votes that didn’t go the bishops way will be cause for reflection as to why this happened. All 3 were to do with proposed changes to the CNC voting process.