Election with no majority

[parkourninja]

If a candidate is running unopposed for a position and does not receive a majority vote, what provisions are in place for filling the office? Is there a such thing as a special election? 

[Hieu H. Huynh]

Repeat the balloting until someone receives a majority vote.

[Richard Brown]

And you might want to re-open nominations, which can be done with a majority vote (or unanimous consent).

[Joshua Katz]

How exactly does that happen?

[Richard Brown]

4 minutes ago, Godelfan said:

How exactly does that happen?

I'm wondering the same thing.  Even a vote of 1 to 0 is a majority vote. 

Edited to add:  I suppose there could be enough write in votes that the nominated candidate failed to obtain a majority of the votes.  Parkourninja, please elaborate.

[D_K]

16 hours ago, Godelfan said:

How exactly does that happen?

My guess is that the organization took a yes-no vote on whether to elect the sole nominee, instead of declaring the nominee elected by acclamation like they should have (assuming of course that there is no rule in the bylaws requiring a ballot). 

[Rev Ed]

I am wondering what is going on as well.  We need more information.  With only one candidate, either the candidate should have been elected by acclamation (if no ballot is required) or is likely to have received a majority vote (if a ballot is required), as enough write-in candidates would have had to been voted for to spread the votes enough that no one received a majority vote. 

[parkourninja]

On 7/1/2016 at 0:18 PM, Rev Ed said:

I am wondering what is going on as well.  We need more information.  With only one candidate, either the candidate should have been elected by acclamation (if no ballot is required) or is likely to have received a majority vote (if a ballot is required), as enough write-in candidates would have had to been voted for to spread the votes enough that no one received a majority vote. 

 

On 7/1/2016 at 0:01 AM, Richard Brown said:

I'm wondering the same thing.  Even a vote of 1 to 0 is a majority vote. 

Edited to add:  I suppose there could be enough write in votes that the nominated candidate failed to obtain a majority of the votes.  Parkourninja, please elaborate.

This thread 

 provides more information. The question for now is resolved.

[J. J.]

In that case, you would need to re-ballot, or to suspend this rule.