Marmiew Posted December 13, 2018 at 03:34 PM Report Share Posted December 13, 2018 at 03:34 PM The current By-Laws for our organization states "After obtaining the Chapter endorsements, the Nominating Committee shall meet to make up the slate for election." We have had nominations and endorsements for at least two people for several of our offices. The chairman of the Nominating Committee has called us together to determine which of the two people for each office will be the better candidate and that person's name will be put on the slate for that office. As a nominating committee member I feel uneasy about selecting just one of these people to be placed on the "slate" and feel this is giving us five people too much power for an organization of 1500+ people. Should we change the word "slate" to "ballot" in our By-Laws -- thereby, allowing us to send to the "Call for Conference" a ballot containing those names who have been nominated, rather than us as the Nominating Committee choosing between the two names for the offices concerned? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted December 13, 2018 at 05:10 PM Report Share Posted December 13, 2018 at 05:10 PM RONR does not use (or define) "slate". It is sort of an unofficial shorthand for "list of nominees". Your Nominating committee should feel free to nominate as many (or as few) folks to your open offices as you wish. The output from your committee will be a ballot, i.e. a list of nominees from which the electorate can make their selection when voting. And next time, please raise a new question with a new topic entry - don't latch on to a 6 year old thread (even though it deals with the same topic). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted December 13, 2018 at 08:55 PM Report Share Posted December 13, 2018 at 08:55 PM 5 hours ago, Marmiew said: The current By-Laws for our organization states "After obtaining the Chapter endorsements, the Nominating Committee shall meet to make up the slate for election." We have had nominations and endorsements for at least two people for several of our offices. The chairman of the Nominating Committee has called us together to determine which of the two people for each office will be the better candidate and that person's name will be put on the slate for that office. As a nominating committee member I feel uneasy about selecting just one of these people to be placed on the "slate" and feel this is giving us five people too much power for an organization of 1500+ people. Should we change the word "slate" to "ballot" in our By-Laws -- thereby, allowing us to send to the "Call for Conference" a ballot containing those names who have been nominated, rather than us as the Nominating Committee choosing between the two names for the offices concerned? RONR does not use the word "slate" and most members here would deprecate its use at all. The preferred term is simply the Nominating Committee Report, which is referred to as a "list" of nominees, not a slate, and not a ballot. If the rules in RONR apply, after the committee reports its recommendations to the assembly, the chair must call for additional nominees from the floor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted December 13, 2018 at 09:25 PM Report Share Posted December 13, 2018 at 09:25 PM Oh, and I should add that the "list" can be augmented by nominations from the floor at the election meeting (or as soon as the Committee reports out their nominees) before the content of the (possibly augmented) list becomes the formal ballot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jim O Posted April 17, 2020 at 05:54 PM Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 at 05:54 PM We have a Nominating Committee that presents 5 candidates for 5 openings on our board. There is no nominations from the floor. What would happen if at our AGM the membership votes to defeat the NC's candidates. Since there are no nominations from the floor would a special meeting need to be scheduled with a new slate of candidates for election. Another question is can your bylaws stipulate that the NC candidates be elected by acclimation. Thank you Jim O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hieu H. Huynh Posted April 17, 2020 at 06:03 PM Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 at 06:03 PM 8 minutes ago, Guest Jim O said: We have a Nominating Committee that presents 5 candidates for 5 openings on our board. There is no nominations from the floor. What would happen if at our AGM the membership votes to defeat the NC's candidates. Since there are no nominations from the floor would a special meeting need to be scheduled with a new slate of candidates for election. Another question is can your bylaws stipulate that the NC candidates be elected by acclimation. Thank you Jim O This question has been posted as a new topic here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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