Guest curt sparks Posted October 2, 2020 at 04:31 PM Report Share Posted October 2, 2020 at 04:31 PM When you have a 5 member board what number is required to have a 2/3 vote. Is it = or more than 2/3, which is 66 percent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Honemann Posted October 2, 2020 at 04:43 PM Report Share Posted October 2, 2020 at 04:43 PM 4 minutes ago, Guest curt sparks said: When you have a 5 member board what number is required to have a 2/3 vote. Is it = or more than 2/3, which is 66 percent. It depends upon how many actually vote. If only one votes, and all others abstain, it meets the requirement of a two-thirds vote. All that is required is at least two thirds of the votes cast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atul Kapur Posted October 2, 2020 at 04:44 PM Report Share Posted October 2, 2020 at 04:44 PM Equal to or more than 2/3. Normally, it depends on the number who vote, not the size of the board. If all 5 member vote, then you need 4 to vote in favour. 2/3 of 5 is 3 and 1/3. So 3 votes in favour would be less than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted October 2, 2020 at 10:13 PM Report Share Posted October 2, 2020 at 10:13 PM 5 hours ago, Guest curt sparks said: When you have a 5 member board what number is required to have a 2/3 vote. Is it = or more than 2/3, which is 66 percent. A 2/3 vote means at least 2/3. Contrast this with a majority vote which means more than 1/2. A 2/3 vote is satisfied when there are twice as many (or more) Yes votes as No votes. Abstentions are not called for, tallied, or reported. So if all 5 members vote, it would take a vote of 4:1 for a 2/3 vote, or 3:2 for a majority. But note that many motions that require a 2/3 vote may also be satisfied by a majority of the entire (board) membership, which would need 3 affirmative votes. And by the way, 2/3 is not 66%; it is 66 2/3 %. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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