Guest Joan Posted February 20, 2017 at 01:08 AM Report Share Posted February 20, 2017 at 01:08 AM When putting ballots under seal, may the secretary look at them and count them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted February 20, 2017 at 01:16 AM Report Share Posted February 20, 2017 at 01:16 AM Only if he is also on the teller's committee, by appointment of the chair (p. 414 - not a good idea since the secretary has quite enough to do). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Joan Posted February 20, 2017 at 01:36 AM Report Share Posted February 20, 2017 at 01:36 AM i meant to say, is she allowed to look at them? Shouldn't they be put under seal. This secty wants to know how everyone voted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Lages Posted February 20, 2017 at 02:04 AM Report Share Posted February 20, 2017 at 02:04 AM It shouldn't be possible to find out how everyone voted in a ballot vote - other than the number of votes on each side. Ballot voting is intended to be secret ballot voting. Do you have some non-secret way to do ballot voting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted February 20, 2017 at 02:09 AM Report Share Posted February 20, 2017 at 02:09 AM Hmmm, she, and all the other members at the meeting, should already know how the voting went, if the election had been done right in the first place -- see RONR page 414 and pages following including, particularly, the tellers' report. All the numbers should have become public knowledge (withing the association, anyway) when the election was done. Presumably the votes themselves do not have the voter's names on them -- it was a secret ballot, I trust. In any event the secretary has NO business poking around in the ballot collection -- she just receives them from the head teller, and locks them up, or puts them under a seal until the assembly decides to destroy them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Brown Posted February 20, 2017 at 03:00 AM Report Share Posted February 20, 2017 at 03:00 AM The secretary should not be perusing the ballots to try to determine how people voted. RONR says that the secretary should keep the ballots under seal until the time within which a recount may be ordered expires, but it provides no further guidance in that regard. I would think that placing them in a sealed envelope or box or lock box would be appropriate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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