Say a club, the Elks for instance, has 1,000 members. The way the law was originally written, if they sent out 1,000 ballots and only 500 were returned and the split was 400 for smoking and 100 against, that would not stand as the 500 unreturned ballots would have all been counted as against.
The new law fixes it so that only the returned ballots are counted and so in our example the pro-smokers would win.
Thank you metesky. I couldn't wrap my mind around what he was trying to say. I'm surprised that he didn't just come out and BAN private club smoking. He is such an anti!