That seems a bit more than cosmetic. Tried to follow the IRC log of the meeting that resulted in much heated debate (SD69 vs woody vs joerg_rw, now closed thankfully), saying it was confusing is understatement. But if the question is put in this way:

(MCC Rule List*) Shall become (HFC Rule List*), and the Maemo Community Council will from now on be transformed into Hildon Foundation Council. Yes or No?

the transformation part seems added and not worth discussing, while the chat logs make it seem that there is a bit more happening in the background, like Nokia representative having a say if MCC elections would fail (no candidates etc) vs no such thing since it will be now HFC? Is this referendum _only_ changing that single case of 3/5 (easily fixed by having additional member announcing his candidacy in those two cases to avoid problematic number), or was something skipped?

edit: don't want to fuel conspiracy theories, but if we just wanted to fix 3/5 candidates issue, we don't need that 'transforms to XYZ', no? We could keep the name/functions/other rules that apply...