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Step 8: Final agreement 21 Testing super majority Once the final rewrite is complete, the group will need to step through each of the recommendations and ensure there is super-majority agreement on each and every point in the report. This is best done with a quick raise of hands and a count : using the prompt question “can I live with this recommendation?”. It can be simplest to ask who can’t live with it as you are seeking to elicit and ‘showstopper’ points. The test is not “is this perfect” – it’s about whether you have struck something which reflects where broad agreement can be found. You will probably need to politely encourage people in a friendly way not to treat it as a lesson in grammar – it’s about intent! 194 A Project of the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF)