Guest redogue Posted November 21, 2018 at 10:22 PM Report Share Posted November 21, 2018 at 10:22 PM An organization to which I belong, had a by-laws revision vote. All ballots were to be postmarked by 11/01/18. Ballots were sent to the Recording Secretary. As of today, the organization is not releasing the results of this ballot. There is nothing in our bylaws which state when the results of the ballot have to be released. What would Roberts Rules say regarding this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atul Kapur Posted November 21, 2018 at 10:28 PM Report Share Posted November 21, 2018 at 10:28 PM When is your organization's next meeting? Where (or how) else would your organization announce the results? Do your rules provide for another way of announcing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Brown Posted November 21, 2018 at 10:40 PM Report Share Posted November 21, 2018 at 10:40 PM 11 minutes ago, Guest redogue said: An organization to which I belong, had a by-laws revision vote. All ballots were to be postmarked by 11/01/18. Ballots were sent to the Recording Secretary. As of today, the organization is not releasing the results of this ballot. There is nothing in our bylaws which state when the results of the ballot have to be released. What would Roberts Rules say regarding this? I agree with the response/questins by Atul Kapur, but will also point out that RONR provides for voting in person in meetings. Absentee voting of any kind... by mail, by proxy, etc... is not permitted by RONR unless specifically authorized in your bylaws. Since your bylaws do authorize it, it is up to your organization to determine how to handle the tabulating and announcing of the results. Normally, per RONR, results of votes are announced in meetings, but when an organization uses mail ballots, it should provide for how, when and by whom the ballots are tabulated and the results made known. If your organization has no rule or custom as to tabulating or announcing the results, they should be announced at the next meeting. Are you sure that your bylaws, special rules of order and standing rules don't have any provisions for announcing the results? Who tabulates the results? Is that covered anywhere in your rules? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Redogue Posted November 21, 2018 at 11:02 PM Report Share Posted November 21, 2018 at 11:02 PM The most recent meeting was November 15, 2018. There is nothing in our bylaws about announcing bylaws (although there are for announcing elections). We are a national dog club, so we have a small number of members geographically diverse. As far as standing rules, there is a committee, however, it doesn't appear that they are actually working on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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