The loudest table is not a head count.
Five people speak repeatedly against evening hours. A dozen stay quiet. Mateo is about to report that the room opposes evening events.
Lupa asks
What did the quiet people tell us, as opposed to what we assumed?
Try one response
Silence could mean many things. You have no basis for assigning them a view.
Try another response
You preserve the difference between observed comments and a claim about the whole group.
Make something useful
Write a meeting summary that does not invent a majority.
Tell a friend
Five people spoke against it. We have not established what the rest of the room thinks.
Say it your way. Keep the supported meaning and the part you still need to check.