Elections and nominations for board members

[Guest Marge]

Our organization opens up nominations in advance. Each candidate must declare that they are running 45 days in advance of our next meeting. Once we have our face to face meetings, aside from that the person must meet the qualifications for the position they must also still be nominated by someone at the meeting to be able to run and seconded. This is in our bylaws. The president did not ask for nominations at the meeting and just went ahead with speeches and the elections.

Is this still a valid election or can it be overturned now that we know that the procedures were not followed?

[Hieu H. Huynh]

Ultimately it is up to your organization to interpret your bylaws.

[Dan Honemann]

4 hours ago, Guest Marge said:

Our organization opens up nominations in advance. Each candidate must declare that they are running 45 days in advance of our next meeting. Once we have our face to face meetings, aside from that the person must meet the qualifications for the position they must also still be nominated by someone at the meeting to be able to run and seconded. This is in our bylaws. The president did not ask for nominations at the meeting and just went ahead with speeches and the elections.

Is this still a valid election or can it be overturned now that we know that the procedures were not followed?

Based solely upon your description of what your bylaws provide (which, frankly, makes very little sense), I see nothing which would invalidate this election.

[Gary Novosielski]

8 hours ago, Guest Marge said:

Our organization opens up nominations in advance. Each candidate must declare that they are running 45 days in advance of our next meeting. Once we have our face to face meetings, aside from that the person must meet the qualifications for the position they must also still be nominated by someone at the meeting to be able to run and seconded. This is in our bylaws. The president did not ask for nominations at the meeting and just went ahead with speeches and the elections.

Is this still a valid election or can it be overturned now that we know that the procedures were not followed?

It should have been obvious that procedures were not being followed at the meeting, as soon as the president failed to follow them.  If, as it appears, nobody raised a Point of Order at the time, there's no evident  basis in the rules in RONR for overturning the election at this point, 

I concur with Mr. H.  Your bylaws on nominations appear, to this non-member at least, to contain unnecessary layers of complexity.  Only your organization can decide whether your custom rules actually solve problems that aren't adequately addressed by the default rules in RONR itself, but I think it's a question worth asking.