Governance clarifications

Signed-off-by: Justin Cappos <justincappos@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Lukas Puehringer <lukas.puehringer@nyu.edu>
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 More significant changes in the project, such as those that require a TAP or
 changes in governance, are guided by a maintainer called the Consensus 
-Builder (CB), who has a lifetime appointment.  The project's Consensus Builder (CB) is Justin Cappos 
-<jcappos@nyu.edu, @JustinCappos>.
+Builder (CB).  The project's Consensus Builder (CB) is Justin Cappos 
+<jcappos@nyu.edu, @JustinCappos>, who has a lifetime appointment.
 
 ## Contributions
 [A contributor can submit GitHub pull
@@ -51,10 +51,12 @@ A contributor to the project must express interest in becoming a maintainer.
 The CB has the authority to add or remove maintainers.
 
 ## Changes in governance
-The CB supervises changes in governance.  In the case where the CB cannot or elects not 
-to do so, a quorum of the maintainers select the new CB as follows:
 
-The consensus builder may be appointed for a fixed term or it may be a lifetime appointment.  To initiate a change of consensus builder, or a change in the length of the appointment,  a GitHub PR must be opened.  If a fixed term is specified, the PR should be opened no earlier than 6 weeks before the end of the CB's term, and  should be kept open for no less than 4 weeks. The PR can only be merged after the end of the last CB's term, with more +1 than -1 in the binding votes.
+The CB supervises changes in governance, but a majority of maintainers must vote +1 on the PR.  
+
+## Changes in the consensus builder
+
+The consensus builder may be appointed for a fixed term or it may be a lifetime appointment.  To initiate a change of consensus builder, or a change in the length of the appointment,  a GitHub PR must be opened.  If a fixed term is specified, the PR should be opened no earlier than 6 weeks before the end of the CB's term. If there is not a fixed term appointment, the PR may be opened at any time.  In either case, the PR must be kept open for no less than 4 weeks.  Additionally, the PR can only be merged with more +1 than -1 in the binding votes.
 
 Anyone from the community can vote on the PR with either +1 or -1.