A poll proposing an end to polls has failed to reach quorum, and the result has been accepted by everybody as binding.

Nine members were eligible. Four voted. Two voted twice, having forgotten. One replied with a message rather than a vote, which the group counted as a vote in a direction nobody can now determine.

“The poll was clear,” said organiser Constance Delamere-Ochoa. “Yes to fewer polls. No to fewer polls. It was two options.”

A third option, added by a member as a joke, received the most votes.

The Institute for Informal Governance reports that joke options win a majority of group polls and that this outcome is always honoured, because objecting to it would require an unbearable degree of sincerity.

“Once the funny option leads, it cannot be defeated,” said Dr. Ravindra Holloway. “Voting against it means being the person who voted against the joke, and no member has ever been willing to be that person.”

The group has since held four further polls, including one to determine whether the previous poll counted.

Delamere-Ochoa has proposed a moratorium. She intends to put it to a vote.