CornelR
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We are coming up on our Summer meeting and we will be electing a temporary chairman to fill out the remaining term of the elected chair who resigned in March. As a bit of background that may help, our rules allow proxy voting for issues. Proxies are not allowed to elect officers at the county and legislative district level. Proxies are allowed to elect officers at the regional level but they are not allowed to elect the chairman at our biennial convention (the terms of the officers are two years). The question came up as to whether we could use proxies to elect the interim chairman. And there have been differing opinions. Some think that because the no proxy rule is related to the convention, proxies can thus be used to elect a temporary chairman this June. The question that is lately come to light is the issue of people who want to send their proxy specifying who to vote for as chair. This would be something akin to a write in vote which is not allowed by our rules. With that information can you help me with this question? Can members send their proxies with someone who was able to attend the meeting but specify who that proxy vote is to be for? It is likely we will have two possibly three people running for chair.
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Our standing rules committee was unable to vet all the proposed rules. Our convention rules require all proposed rule changes be vetted through the standing rules comittee. In general assembly, someone will mosgt certainly try to address one or more of the rule proposals that were not dealt with in comittee. Should that happen, the process would be in my estimation: 2/3 to suspend the committee vetting rule, resolve into committee of the whol for purpose of dealing with the rule that a member...
