Guest D.Llama Posted April 11, 2017 at 03:03 AM Report Share Posted April 11, 2017 at 03:03 AM The election ( for three positions as Director ) is unfortunately late in the meeting , and held after various Director and Financial reports - the election results are delayed . The time for the meeting to - end is set by carried agenda -and is to end at 8:30 pm . At 8:25 the presiding officer invites a motion to fix a time to which to adjourn ( no mover ) , or for a recess for 30 minutes to await the vote results ( no mover ) . Neither motion is made, and the meeting is accordingly adjoined at 8:30 pm, absent the election vote results . The assembly is to meet again in a year -for the annual meeting . The vote results come in at 9: 30 pm and are handed to the presiding officer to deal with . What should be done respecting announcement of the vote or is the vote result now delayed for an entire year ? The presiding officer decides that the vote result will be communicated to the assembly website and provides that election result - on her behalf- and that of the Chief Election Clerk- at 10:30 pm . Members are notified that the ballots will be retained until the next annual meeting and will be offered for destruction at that time . Thanks anyone- for suggestions or best resposes . D Llama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Mervosh Posted April 11, 2017 at 12:55 PM Report Share Posted April 11, 2017 at 12:55 PM What's the difference between this thread and the one you made earlier? http://robertsrules.forumflash.com/index.php?/topic/29850-election-runs-over-meeting-time/ Not that it matters much since your group doesn't follow RONR, or just good common sense, and they allow the presiding officer to be dictatorial. Do what you've been doing as a group - make it up as you go along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest D. Llama Posted April 11, 2017 at 03:34 PM Report Share Posted April 11, 2017 at 03:34 PM Quite right George on two counts . This is something of a repeat - was just fishing to see if there was any other view or perspective on the email notification . I did locate in Parliamenatary Law , p. 230 para 1, a very specific statement respecting the need to announce the vote at the meeting ,or at a meeting adjourned to for that purpose . And that no other business be done in the interim -if adjourned for that announcement . As for following RONR , my experience is mainly that even those who are quite diligent and try to follow RONR , invariably come up short unless they have a trained parlimanatarian to help with that . For the untrained or those without expert help -RONR is quite a meal to digest . So many assemblies do in fact limp along and make it up ( usually in good faith ) as best then can from annual meeting to annual meeting . Moving along, however, there is a related question if you would consider that : If after an election a vote is announced for X - X is elected - may a member move to set aside the election of X on the grounds that the member is dissatisfied with the manner in which the election has been conduced ( or some such wording as that ) . Assume the bylaws are silent on this subject - this is a hypothetical . Thanks George or anyone with a view . DLlama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Honemann Posted April 11, 2017 at 04:17 PM Report Share Posted April 11, 2017 at 04:17 PM Why not look at pages 444-446. They're not all that hard to digest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Martin Posted April 11, 2017 at 06:10 PM Report Share Posted April 11, 2017 at 06:10 PM 2 hours ago, Guest D. Llama said: If after an election a vote is announced for X - X is elected - may a member move to set aside the election of X on the grounds that the member is dissatisfied with the manner in which the election has been conduced ( or some such wording as that ) . Assume the bylaws are silent on this subject - this is a hypothetical . No. Depending on what exactly the member is dissatisfied with, his appropriate course of action might be to move for a recount, to raise a Point of Order (followed by an Appeal if necessary), or to simply live with his dissatisfaction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest D. Llama Posted April 11, 2017 at 07:01 PM Report Share Posted April 11, 2017 at 07:01 PM Thanks to both Mr H. and Mr M . The question posed and answered by a "no" from Mr Martin , is much to the point - and pages 444-446 had been reviewed- but a "no" answer to the question - was not quite discernible - at least for this poor reader . Unfortunately I happen to be one of those plodders who has to " brave " RONR and find it a huge "project" and meal ( RONRIB p.7 )- 7 courses or so ! Obliged : DLlama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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