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preacherpipeweed

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  1. Yes. The results were announced at the end of that business meeting. The failture to include the absentee ballots was brought to the board's attention the following day.
  2. Our Bylaws do allow absentee voting. The board's officers and members were not notified until the following day that the absentee ballots were not counted. Some grumbling has occured post-meeting, and now the focus is on determining (1) if a procedural error was committed and (2) how to recitify the situation. It is possible that the decision made/voted on for at least one or two line items (individual voting issues) on the ballot could be impacted by the inclusion of the absentee ballots (we won't know until they have been counted...the vote counters never even looked at them during the meeting as the parlimentarian ruled them invalid a priori). I suspect your advice about a new election is perhaps the only way forward.
  3. In a recent organization business meeting we allowed absentee votes on a ballot which contained line items for voting on the annual budget, a proposal for a special use of funds, and several officers up for election and/or renewal to office. During the meeting, one of the officers withdrew his name for the position of chairman and another officer was put up for the position of chairman in his place. Members were asked to cross out the first name and write in the second name (the officer who replaced the man who stepped down). We found out later that our parlimentarian, due to the change of the ballot during the meeting, invalidated all the absentee votes (including their votes for other line items on the ballot). Several members are objecting to the absentee votes being invalidated. Was there a parlimentary error committed?
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