Guest Lindsay Posted April 14, 2014 at 10:16 AM Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 at 10:16 AM Good Morning,Just need some input on the proper procedure when a nominee wishes to withdraw after balloting has started and is 3 days from final date for votes. This is a board position with one other person running for that position, mail in ballots being processed by outside cpa. Can we or are we required to notify the membership electornically that this person has withdrawn? OR When balloting is published, we just publish the votes for this position with a notation next to the person "withdrawn"? Thank you,Lindsay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted April 14, 2014 at 10:55 AM Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 at 10:55 AM First of all... do your bylaws authorize mail absentee voting? -- the election will not be proper at all unless they do. If they do, you should have rules about how to manage that election. Check there for what to do in your current situation. If there are no rules relating to the problem... IMO, there is no opportunity to notify people as many ballots presumably have been cast. So just report the results. Remember that those votes DO COUNT toward the total vote cast and hence the majority threshold that must be achieved to win the election. And who knows, when your candidate sees how many votes he did get, he might change his/her mind and accept the office after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David A Foulkes Posted April 14, 2014 at 11:45 AM Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 at 11:45 AM And if the candidate does receive a majority of votes cast, when s/he is notified of winning, s/he still has the option of declining the position, in which case another round of balloting will need to take place. The second-place finisher does not automatically win by default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Martin Posted April 14, 2014 at 04:41 PM Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 at 04:41 PM Can we or are we required to notify the membership electornically that this person has withdrawn? You are not required to, but I can't think of any rule that would prohibit it. OR When balloting is published, we just publish the votes for this position with a notation next to the person "withdrawn"? No notation of the fact that the member withdrew should be recorded. As noted, those votes must still be credited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted April 14, 2014 at 06:15 PM Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 at 06:15 PM Good Morning,Just need some input on the proper procedure when a nominee wishes to withdraw after balloting has started and is 3 days from final date for votes. This is a board position with one other person running for that position, mail in ballots being processed by outside cpa. Can we or are we required to notify the membership electornically that this person has withdrawn? OR When balloting is published, we just publish the votes for this position with a notation next to the person "withdrawn"? Once voting has started, nothing (official) is allowed to interrupt it. So you would just go ahead and collect and count the ballots as usual. There is no requirement that you notify anyone of the member's wish to withdraw. Withdrawing from an election has some meaning if it occurs before the balloting, or between two ballots, when it would be proper to notify voters of the withdrawal. But if voting is already underway, withdrawing really has no meaning, other than expressing an intent to decline if elected. Even so, actually declining will have to wait until the results of the election are known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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