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flipper92

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Our bylaws provide that a person running for any position must garner a majority of votes cast. We have 3 members at large slots and 6 candidates. The results of the election were that one person met the majority threshold and the other 5 did not. We will be having a runoff for the last two slots. The question is: before the runoff, does RROO speak to whether we need to communicate the percentages that the 5 runoff candidates received in the first round of voting?

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35 minutes ago, flipper92 said:

Our bylaws provide that a person running for any position must garner a majority of votes cast. We have 3 members at large slots and 6 candidates. The results of the election were that one person met the majority threshold and the other 5 did not. We will be having a runoff for the last two slots. The question is: before the runoff, does RROO speak to whether we need to communicate the percentages that the 5 runoff candidates received in the first round of voting?

Agreeing with the Guest above (I think), RONR says that the tellers (if there re tellers) and the chair call out the vote totals for each candidate at the time the results are announced.  Giving those totals is part of announcing the result.  There is no requirement in RONR that percentages of votes received by each candidate be announced other than a statement that Candidate A received a majority of the votes and is elected.

The chair, not the tellers, declares who has been elected (or that nobody received a majority and therefore nobody was elected).

See pages 417-418 for more information on announcing the results of an election.

Edited by Richard Brown
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