Voting

[Guest Melissa Reames]

Good Afternoon, tonight is our elections for our PTO and our current acting president (vice-president)
 is threatening not to come or resign because she thinks there will
not be a meeting, so then elections will not be held, but there would
still going to be a meeting even if she is not there correct? My other questions is
we do not need her there for voting if more than three people show up
to vote correct? our bylaws state we need 2/3. Also can people become members and vote tonight also. there is nothing that is stated in our bylaws to this. Just that if they have genuine interest in our children and school they can attend.

[Chris Harrison]

If the President isn't at the meeting then the VP runs the meeting and if the VP also isn't there the assembly elects a Chair pro tem who would run the meeting (RONR pp. 452-453).

 

You will need to look to the quorum requirement in the bylaws to determine how many members must be present in order to conduct business.

 

As far as RONR is concerned a member gets all the rights of membership as soon as he or she becomes a member.

[Edgar Guest]

. . . our current acting president (vice-president)

Per RONR, if the president left office before the term of office expired, the former vice-president is now the president. No "acting". Do your rules say otherwise?

 

My other questions is we do not need her there for voting if more than three people show up to vote correct? our bylaws state we need 2/3..

 

Is your quorum requirement really two-thirds of the membership? That's awfully high. Perhaps that's a voting requirement?

 

If it really is two-thirds of the membership, and you say you need only three members to show up, that means there are fewer than six members in your organization (if there were six you'd need four).

 

If it's a voting requirement you don't need three members to vote, you just need at least twice as many "yes" votes as "no" votes. A vote of 1-0 constitutes a two-thirds vote.