Balloting on suggestions
An assembly that meets annually (not a convention) wants to hold a semi-annual, "gathering." It will be for social and educational purposes, but will not be a business meeting. Some members oppose the idea, but there is a lot of contention about where it will be held. A member properly made a motion, that is before the assembly, "That we have a three day semiannual gathering for educational and social purposes on June 15-18, 2013, in _________ ." There are five suggestions made in this order:
I suspect another big difference is that, by properly following the rules for voting on suggestions for filling blanks, the chair will avoid being tossed out of office for trying to declare C as being the assembly's choice instead of E, when E gets 70 votes and C only gets 55 (as suggested in post #13).