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Greetings,

An organization currently has a nomination committee who considers and nominates officers for the board. The bylaws also gives its members the right to petition for nominations for officers (by having at least 10 signatures from members on a petition for any particular office). The board would like to increase the number of signatures, and feels that it is too easy for the members to submit a petition and then will find it is difficult to handle the large amount of nominations. Any thoughts on a fair way to permit petitions? Is 50 signatures fair? any other ways you have seen nominations presented?

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Greetings,

An organization currently has a nomination committee who considers and nominates officers for the board. The bylaws also gives its members the right to petition for nominations for officers (by having at least 10 signatures from members on a petition for any particular office). The board would like to increase the number of signatures, and feels that it is too easy for the members to submit a petition and then will find it is difficult to handle the large amount of nominations. Any thoughts on a fair way to permit petitions? Is 50 signatures fair? any other ways you have seen nominations presented?

Under RONR, it is the right of each member to make nominations (without any need for petitions or signatures). It sounds like there may be some confusion in your organization about the nomination and election process.

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Accroding to RONR only one person is required to nominate another person and an individual can even nominate himself. If the organization chooses (which it has done) it can adopt a different nomination process.

Although I would recommend that it be kept as easy as possible - better to have too many people to choose from and not enough.

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I think it is the existing regime that does not want to deal with a bunch of nominations. I agree, the more choices the better, and the will of the members should be what rules and is currently set in the bylaws. However, I have been requested to give an opinion on if the bylaws should be revised to make it more difficult for members to make this petition for a nomination. Btw, the bylaws can only be changed by a super majority vote of the board and not the members.

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I think it is the existing regime that does not want to deal with a bunch of nominations. I agree, the more choices the better, and the will of the members should be what rules and is currently set in the bylaws. However, I have been requested to give an opinion on if the bylaws should be revised to make it more difficult for members to make this petition for a nomination. Btw, the bylaws can only be changed by a super majority vote of the board and not the members.

Don't worry about any other changes to the bylaws, until you get them amended to provide that the General Membership, instead of the board, has the authority to amend them. ;)

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Greetings,

An organization currently has a nomination committee who considers and nominates officers for the board. The bylaws also gives its members the right to petition for nominations for officers (by having at least 10 signatures from members on a petition for any particular office). The board would like to increase the number of signatures, and feels that it is too easy for the members to submit a petition and then will find it is difficult to handle the large amount of nominations. Any thoughts on a fair way to permit petitions? Is 50 signatures fair? any other ways you have seen nominations presented?

The board should not be meddling in the election process. Why should there be a problem with too many nominees? For that matter, since write-in votes are allowed, that's almost the same as nominating everybody.

The most straightforward way, if you want a nominating committee is simply to appoint one and let them come back with recommended candidates.

And then, allow nominations from the floor, where any member can nominate anyone eligible for election. Nothing complicated about it and it works fine.

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  • 3 years later...

Our organization of 1,100 members across the USA has by-laws that specify 25 signatures on a petition to run as Officer or Director to be submitted with a letter stating the person is willing to serve in that capacity. If a petition is submitted with the office designated, then that wording is scratched out, and another office written in the same spot, would the petition be valid?  

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Charla, contrary to the way some forums and discussion boards work, we prefer that people post new questions as new topics, even though the question might seem to fit in with an existing thread.  Think of this thread as "Guest Leslie's thread'.

 

You can post your question as a new topic by going here:http://robertsrules.forumflash.com/index.php?app=forums&module=post&section=post&do=new_post&f=4

 

You might also read this pinned post at the top of the general discussion forum titled "Read this First".   http://robertsrules.forumflash.com/index.php?/topic/25416-important-read-this-first-information-for-new-members-and-guests/

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