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it's a credentialing meeting and he can't vote for himself.

The bylaws state that a quorum is 50% of the voting members. Does this still apply: "A quorum has nothing to do with voting."?

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The bylaws state that a quorum is 50% of the voting members. Does this still apply: "A quorum has nothing to do with voting."?

Do you have more than one classification of Membership with one or more classes that doesn't have all of the rights of membership?

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it's a credentialing meeting and he can't vote for himself.

Who says? Is that in the bylaws? Local/State/Federal/Corporate Law? Anyway, couldn't he vote for someone else? Or is he the only person/member to be credentialed?

The bylaws state that a quorum is 50% of the voting members. Does this still apply: "A quorum has nothing to do with voting."?

Well, if you wait until voting is taking place to determine how many members are voting so you can determine your 50% quorum, your quorum could be changing with every vote. Besides, in that case, you would always have a quorum, wouldn't you?

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it's a credentialing meeting and he can't vote for himself.

The bylaws state that a quorum is 50% of the voting members. Does this still apply: "A quorum has nothing to do with voting."?

If the member truly is deprived of his right to vote (by a bylaws level rule) in this situation, then he is (at least for that item of business) not a voting member and hence may not count toward quorum. However, as Mr. Foulkes asked -- Who says the member can't vote? Is that in the bylaws? and so forth...

You may find this earlier thread interesting:

http://robertsrules....__fromsearch__1

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