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If the president participates in a debate without relinquishing the chair and influences the vote, is the vote results valid?

 

No. Someone should have raised a Point of Order at the time.

 

Can the vote be appealed or reconsidered?

 

There is no procedure to "appeal" from a vote, and the time limits for the motion to Reconsider have almost certainly passed, but there may be other options, as Edgar notes.

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No. Someone should have raised a Point of Order at the time.

 

As Mr Martin points out much of parliamentary procedure is a matter of speak "now" or "forever hold your peace".  There are of course exceptions that constitute a continuing breech and can be brought up at a later date such as violations of notice. What you are referencing regarding the chairman is not such a breach.

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Can the vote be appealed or reconsidered?

 

Rulings of the chair can be appealed, not votes.  And many motions can be reconsidered, under a somewhat complex set of rules, none of which have anything to to with whether the chair participated in debate.

 

A point of order (at the time) could have stopped him from participating in debate, but since that wasn't done, the vote stands.

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As Mr Martin points out much of parliamentary procedure is a matter of speak "now" or "forever hold your peace".  There are of course exceptions that constitute a continuing breech and can be brought up at a later date such as violations of notice. What you are referencing regarding the chairman is not such a breech.

Breach, not breech.

 

And in this particular instance--neither.

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