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A single ballot with 13 motions on it. Each motion depends on passing the previous motion.

Q. If all but the first motions pass and the first fails, should all the rest of the motions be withdrawn until the first can be adjusted to be acceptable?

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Each motion depends on passing the previous motion.

What, exactly, does this statement mean?

If it means that the adoption of each motion requires the adoption of every previous motion, then if the first motion is not adopted, none of the other motions are adopted.

But if it only means that none of the motions make sense unless the previous motions are adopted, then if the first motion is not adopted, the adoption of all the other motions means you've adopted a lot of motions that don't make sense. It won't be the first time.

In any case, there's no "withdrawing" of motions once the voting has taken place.

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What, exactly, does this statement mean?

If it means that the adoption of each motion requires the adoption of every previous motion, then if the first motion is not adopted, none of the other motions are adopted.

But if it only means that none of the motions make sense unless the previous motions are adopted, then if the first motion is not adopted, the adoption of all the other motions means you've adopted a lot of motions that don't make sense. It won't be the first time.

In any case, there's no "withdrawing" of motions once the voting has taken place.

Since when is it in order to adopt motions that don't make sense?

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Since when is it in order to adopt motions that don't make sense?

I think the reasons a motion might not "make sense" are varied, ranging from the downright illogical all the way to the simply ill-advised. Hence my questioning what the OP meant by "depends on".

If, for example, the adoption of the first question on this ballot would create a new office (or a new event) and the subsequent motions relate to that new office (or event), I don't think any of the motions are, necessarily, out of order, even if the rejection of the first motion makes the adoption of the subsequent motions moot.

This is not to suggest it was a good idea to put all the questions on a single ballot but that's, apparently, what this organization did, presumably for reasons that made sense (?) at the time.

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