Voting

[Guest CLM]

If a board member, in this case the president, chooses to not cast a vote on a bylaw change, are they counted in determining the super majority (80%) needed to pass the change, or is it 80% of ONLY the votes that are casted if the bylaws read as follows - bylaws may be amended or changed by super majority (80%) vote of Board at any monthly or special meeting?

[Richard Brown]

Based on the language you quoted, an abstention  does not affect the outcome. The quoted language requires an 80% vote of those members who are present and Voting.  Abstentions are ignored.

 

[George Mervosh]

On 12/7/2022 at 2:49 PM, Richard Brown said:

Based on the language you quoted, an abstention  does not affect the outcome. The quoted language requires an 80% vote of those members who are present and Voting.  Abstentions are ignored.

This is one of those times where I wished you insisted on verbatim language.   

[Gary Novosielski]

I thought that last sentence was verbatim.

[Richard Brown]

Re-writing post.  Copy and paste didn't work right.

Edited December 8, 2022 at 01:42 AM by Richard Brown
Re-writing post. Quote I was copying screwed up

[Richard Brown]

Re-writing post

Edited December 8, 2022 at 01:43 AM by Richard Brown
Still trying to get the system to quote correctly

[Alicia Percell, PRP]

When the OP prefaced the language with, "the bylaws read as follows" that suggests to me it is a verbatim quote.