voting Voting Twice

[Guest PantherFan]

Our association has board members who live all over the country.  Those who live close enough to the organization's office attend the monthly meetings in person, and those who live too far away to attend in person call in and attend meetings via conference call monthly.  (This is in our bylaws as an approved method of attendance.)  At the most recent meeting, the new president had all board members on the phone and present in person participate in roll call voting.  All board members voted.  He is now requiring that any board member who voted on the phone must now mail in their votes for their votes to count because they were not physically present at the meeting.  I cannot find anywhere why this would need to be done, and I would think that this would now mean that they did not have quorum at their meeting if they are having to send their votes in by mail.  Any help would be appreciated as we are trying to get this resolved. 

[Richard Brown]

I disagree with your president. If your bylaws permit participating in board meetings by telephone, then that would include voting unless your bylaws specifically provide otherwise.

[Kim Goldsworthy]

7 hours ago, Guest PantherFan said:

At the most recent meeting, the new president had all board members on the phone and present in person participate in roll call voting. 

All board members voted. 

[New president] is now requiring that any board member who voted on the phone must now mail in their votes for their votes to count because they were not physically present at the meeting. 

>> [New president] is now requiring that any board member who voted on the phone must now mail in their votes for their votes to count because they were not physically present at the meeting. 

This is bizarre. This has no support within Robert's Rules of Order.

(To vote by mail is form of absentee voting. So, your new president is substituting one form of absentee balloting for another form of absentee balloting. This makes no sense.)