Who are the "members" when delegates are at a convention?

[Drake Savory]

One threshold of voting is a majority of the membership.  So let's say you have an association of Cat Sweater Knitters and each year they elect delegates to attend the Annual Conference.  What would constitute a majority of the membership for votes at the AC - a majority of the whole Association or a majority of the delegates elected?

[Atul Kapur]

This would be a convention according to RONR: an assembly of delegates ... chosen, normally for one session only, as representatives of constituent units or subdivisions of a much larger body of people in whose name the convention sits and acts." (p. 7)

Further on p. 7: " whenever the term 'majority of the entire membership' is used in this book, it means, in the case of a convention of delegates, a majority of the total number of convention members entitled to vote, as set forth in the official role roll of voting members of the convention."

Edited April 12, 2019 at 01:47 PM by Atul Kapur
Other than the occasional homonym, I think the dictation on my phone is excellent

[jstackpo]

And that "official role" is drawn up by the Credentials Committee and presented for adoption to the assembled delegates (sort of a "by your own bootstraps" operation) as one of the first pieces of business at the convention. See Chapter XIX.

[Bruce Lages]

Please make that "the official roll of voting members of the convention".

[jstackpo]

I'll rool with that.