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so we did not have a quarum for it to be a legal vote?

Unless your rules require unanimous attendance to achieve quorum :blink: , I'd say 7 out of 8 attending should do the trick.

Quorum has to do with the number of members who are present, not the number who vote. Under the rules in RONR, if only one person voted, that would be enough to make the decision (it doesn't matter if all the others present sit on their hands).

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the person that it was about is saying that the abstained votes don't count???

Under the rules in RONR, abstentions don't count (they are not votes). The outcome of the vote depends entirely on the votes of the people who actually voted. You haven't actually said how those 4 people voted, so we can't say what the outcome of the vote was.

edited to add:

Ummm... what do you mean by "the person that it was about"? What kind of motion was before the assembly?

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By default, RONR would accept this as a legal vote - there was a quorum according to the rules of RONR, and a majority of those voting and present voted in favour of the motion.

Your bylaws, however, take priority over RONR. Your bylaws may require something that is different than what RONR requires, such as a majority vote of board positions filled - so not just those present and voting, but everybody.

You will have to check your own bylaws, to see if they have language that conflicts with the default rules of RONR.

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Back in may we had a meeting in which the board was to vote on a union contract for the workers of the business, since 3 of the 7 members were union members of the same union - they felt as though they would need to abstain in order to be impartial for the vote, however, the remaining members present voted to approve the contract. is this a legal vote? The members that abstained were doing so to be fair and impartial, otherwise their votes would have be in favor of the contract. Since this was done in good faith, how would the vote carry?

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