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The only thing our by-laws state is to bring up the next person with the most votes. We had a tie with the next two people having the same amount of votes.

It sounds to me like your customized rule would apply to filling a vacancy when one of the newly elected board members resigns. As you can now see, this rule is problematic at best, and should probably be amended out of the bylaws, but that's for the organization to decide.

But the member who resigned was already on the board, not one recently elected. So your bylaws should have some provision for filling vacancies in such a case. Is there nothing else in your bylaws that addresses this situation? Or is your custom rule all they say about filling vacancies?

We have a 12 member non-profit board of directors. On April 9th we had our annual membership meeting and elections for ( 4 ) new officers with a three year term limit. After this election but before our first regular meeting one of our members that was already on the baord resigned. Per our by-laws we bring up the next member from our annual meeting wit the most votes. The problem is: the next two members have the same amount of votes. How do we handle this. One is a women and one is a man. Do we go by the alphabet, by usefullness to the board or do we take a vote with the 11 memebers we have to make the decision.

HELP>>>>>>

April