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teller's report in secret balloting for nominees


rhammar

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An organization’s bylaws specify that “all candidates for the office of president shall be nominated by receiving 10 votes or more by secret ballot. . . .” At an annual meeting of the organization five persons receive 10 or more votes on the nominating ballot for the office of president, and 50 members receive less than 10 votes. Are the names and vote totals of all 60 persons included in the teller’s report that is read by the chairman of the tellers? Or, can just those persons receiving 10 or more votes be listed in the teller’s report since they will be the only nominees? It would appear to me that the names of all must be included in the report (and included in the minutes) pursuant to pp. 417 lines 18-21 and 418 lines 26-31, RONR.

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Yes, all members should be included in the report. The assembly may wish to waive the requirement that it be read aloud (twice!) by unanimous consent (or a motion to Suspend the Rules), but the report should be recorded in the minutes (and, ideally, made available for any member who wishes to know the vote totals if they are not announced).

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It sounds to me that Mr. Hammar's association is actually employing a "nominating ballot" - p. 346-7 but with the non-Robertian extra feature of the 10 votes to "actually" nominate someone.

 

RONR's nominating ballot rule is that everybody who gets voted for ends up on the election ballot; whether this applies to Mr. Hammar's association is, as noted, up to his organization to figure out.

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