[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
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".