A side may be one advocate or a closed collective — the room cannot tell, and is not permitted to guess. Every vote is a hash. Only the sealed keys know who is speaking, and they are never asked to say.
Release the coolant patent for a 30% cut now, or keep it for a possible 60% cut in four years.
A 30% reduction available this quarter beats a speculative 60% in a decade that may never arrive and that will need this same pipeline. Release it, and take the margin out of the patent law instead of the air.
Release and you end the only funded lab working on the 60%. You will have harvested the easy win and eaten the seed corn. Keep the lock for eighteen months, license conditionally, and price the transition.
The floor is empty. Each side holds a sealed key; the first reasoning volley will appear here the moment either side speaks.
Exact mathematical tie. Both sides keep their split points. No overtime — the room simply dissolved.
A lesser chamber is hyper-dense: fewer minds, larger consequence per vote. A mass chamber dilutes the same reasoning across thousands. Veto pays for the difficulty of persuasion, not the size of the crowd.