Adjutant Posted May 12, 2011 at 09:42 PM Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 at 09:42 PM No nominations at last meeting for an office.Ballot elections held. A write in name was cast. Is the write elected to office? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David A Foulkes Posted May 12, 2011 at 09:44 PM Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 at 09:44 PM Assuming Mr. X received a majority of votes cast, nothing you've provided so far would suggest otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmtcastle Posted May 12, 2011 at 09:44 PM Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 at 09:44 PM No nominations at last meeting for an office. Ballot elections held. A write in name was cast. Is the write elected to office?Yes, if the candidate received a majority (more than half) of the votes cast for that office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adjutant Posted May 12, 2011 at 09:48 PM Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 at 09:48 PM Yes, if the candidate received a majority (more than half) of the votes cast for that office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adjutant Posted May 12, 2011 at 09:49 PM Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 at 09:49 PM The only vote cast was the write-in.That was out of 200 members voting. As I said no nominations had been made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David A Foulkes Posted May 12, 2011 at 09:52 PM Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 at 09:52 PM The only vote cast was the write-in.That was out of 200 members voting. As I said no nominations had been made.One vote cast for Mr. X, no other votes for that office? Then Mr. X was elected unanimously!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Elsman Posted May 12, 2011 at 09:53 PM Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 at 09:53 PM The only vote cast was the write-in.That was out of 200 members voting. As I said no nominations had been made.There's something very wrong, here. I don't know what happened, but I find it hard to accept that 199 out of 200 members deliberately abstained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmtcastle Posted May 12, 2011 at 09:58 PM Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 at 09:58 PM There's something very wrong, here. I don't know what happened, but I find it hard to accept that 199 out of 200 members deliberately abstained.Perhaps they mistakenly thought you couldn't vote for someone who wasn't nominated. And only one member didn't "know" that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David A Foulkes Posted May 12, 2011 at 10:00 PM Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 at 10:00 PM Perhaps they mistakenly thought that you couldn't vote for someone who wasn't nominated. And only one member didn't "know" that.Well, at the next no-nominee election, I know whose name I'm writing in. Hey - it could work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted May 13, 2011 at 08:50 AM Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 at 08:50 AM There's something very wrong, here. I don't know what happened, but I find it hard to accept that 199 out of 200 members deliberately abstained.It's probably more accurate to say that they accidentally abstained--or abstained through ignorance. I'll bet nobody pointed out to them that they had the right to write in a name, and all but one just "assumed" that they could not.The result is the unanimous 1-0 election. This isn't as uncommon as you'd probably think. But what's probably more common is to have a few people write in a few different names, so that you end up with a 1-1-1-1 tie, and a second ballot where a lot of people suddenly exercise their right to write. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. J. Posted May 13, 2011 at 12:58 PM Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 at 12:58 PM I have won election for public office based solely on write-in votes. There is nothing too unusual here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted May 13, 2011 at 02:03 PM Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 at 02:03 PM I have won election for public office based solely on write-in votes. There is nothing too unusual here.Yeah, right... "here" being Philadelphia... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted May 13, 2011 at 08:51 PM Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 at 08:51 PM Yeah, right... "here" being Philadelphia...And I once lost an election to public office to a well-organized write-in campaign, even though I was on the ballot! "Here" being New Jersey.(Caught in the crossfire--long story--happy ending.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weldon Merritt Posted May 13, 2011 at 11:00 PM Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 at 11:00 PM And I once lost an election to public office to a well-organized write-in campaign, even though I was on the ballot! "Here" being New Jersey.I know of one instance in New Mexico where the only candidate listed on the ballot finished third in the election! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmtcastle Posted May 13, 2011 at 11:11 PM Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 at 11:11 PM I know of one instance in New Mexico where the only candidate listed on the ballot finished third in the election!And let's nor forget Lisa Murkowski's successful 2010 write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate, only the second person to accomplish that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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