Outdated bylaws with no voting eligibility criteria

[Guest Erika]

If you organization has outdated bylaws, that has no voting criteria listed, so we defer to Robert’s Rules and/or go to simple majority vote.

[Richard Brown]

41 minutes ago, Guest Erika said:

If you organization has outdated bylaws, that has no voting criteria listed, so we defer to Robert’s Rules and/or go to simple majority vote.

Can you elaborate on what you mean when you say your bylaws have "no voting criteria listed"?

If RONR is your parliamentary authority, then if your bylaw are silent as to voting thresholds for  various purposes, then, yes, you default to the rules in RONR.  A regular majority vote is the vote required to adopt MOST motions, but there are quite a few exceptions, such as the  motion for "the previous question", which ends debate and also for amending bylaws, both of which normally require a two-thirds vote.  A motion to suspend the rules also requires a two thirds vote.

If you do not already have it, I strongly urge you to get a copy of RONR (Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, 12th edition) or RONR In Brief.  Please do not use some "knockoff" version!  Use the right book. https://robertsrules.com/books/

[Guest Puzzling]

The bylaws are the bylaws, how outdated or up to date they are.

If the organisation wants it can do a general revision of the bylaws (RONR 12 57:5) but even in to do this the old bylaws rule , and RONR is only for filling where the old bylaws and the law are silent.

So maybe quote the old bylaws at least in what they say about changing them.

[Gary Novosielski]

9 hours ago, Guest Erika said:

If you organization has outdated bylaws, that has no voting criteria listed, so we defer to Robert’s Rules and/or go to simple majority vote.

You would defer to the rules in Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised.