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Description:
Abstain only exists for board&council ballots. Therefore this bug happens only for board&council ballots.

When a voter is recasting the votes, and voters don't want to use all of their 5 YES votes again and submit the abstain command, Memberbot may still include "yes" votes from the previous voting session. It seems to delete only the previous vote at the position you abstain. Some other previous yes votes remain in the results.

The described issue only when in the previous voting session more YES votes were used then in the recast session.

I think the problem is here in the Abstain function where is deletes only 1 YES vote:

In the context of a board and council election abstain means:
I do not want to elect more applicants into either board or council

So I think we need to delete the current and all subsequent array items. Or change the whole logic and clear the previous votes completely at the right time in the recast session.

Section 3.13 Voting Procedure for Election of Board and Council. Election
of individuals to serve on the Board of Directors and on the XMPP Council
shall proceed as follows. First, the number of individuals to serve on each
body shall be limited beforehand by the Members as specified in Section 4.4
and Section 8.1 of these Bylaws for the Board and Council, respectively.
Second, the Members shall vote on the candidates standing for election in
accordance with Section 3.9 of these Bylaws. Third, the individuals elected
shall be those receiving the highest percentage of votes cast, up to the
limit set by the Members and with the proviso that no individual receiving
less than a majority of votes cast shall be elected. Fourth, in the case of
a tie for the final remaining position, the final individual shall be
chosen in accordance with the procedures defined in “RFC 3797: Publicly
Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random Selection” published by
the Internet Engineering Task Force.

This means that in principle, a Member may vote for all the candidates. The
memberbot limits the number of votes a Member has to the number of
positions available, ie, 5.

see also the board minutes from December 2020 here:
https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/members/2020-December/009210.html

The memberbot could work towards:

• Informing members about important topics
• Announcing meeting dates and reminders
• Inform about XEP developments
• Sending the newsletter