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[council] Abstentions



Let me assist with some thinking from elsewhere:
 
Oxford English dictionary
Abstention "not using ones' vote"
 
abstention
1. the formal act of not voting
Collins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006
 
Wikipedia (take it or leave it)
"Abstentions do not count in tallying the vote negatively or positively; when members abstain, they are in effect only attending the meeting to aid in constituting a quorum, which in turn means that those who abstain still effect the general number of people in quorum".