A key part of that problem is that you can't vote against closure. Only after a question has accrued sufficient votes to close it can you start voting to open it again; it's a ratcheting flip-flop.

But it appears Jeff is oddly against this issue:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/915/can-we-have-the-...

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/125/how-about-a-vote...

Heavily outvoted by the community, he persists in obduracy.