White Ballot meaning

[Guest Doug]

When a slate of potential canidates is recomended and no one has additions, objections or a diferent slate, is that called a "White Ballot"?

[Dan Honemann]

Not by anyone I know.  🙂

[Josh Martin]

15 minutes ago, Guest Doug said:

When a slate of potential canidates is recomended and no one has additions, objections or a diferent slate, is that called a "White Ballot"?

RONR does not use this term. Some societies appear to use this term in the way you describe.

Regardless of what it is called, however, it must be understood that the proper procedure (unless the bylaws provide otherwise) in a situation in which candidates are unopposed is as follows:

1) If the bylaws do not require a ballot vote, the chair simply declares the candidates elected by acclamation.

2) If the bylaws require a ballot vote, then a ballot vote is held the same as it would be if there were multiple candidates. Unless the bylaws provide otherwise, write-in votes are in order.

Since in one of these cases there is no ballot at all, and in the other case there is nothing special about the ballot, I don't think that the phrase "white ballot" is descriptive or helpful for such situations.