Presedential Election

[Guest H.Wm.Mountcastle]

In the event of a tie in an election, you vote again, with all candidates remaining on the ballot. The president should have, and could have, vote along with the other members (assuming this was a ballot vote as, in an election, it should have been).

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[Guest Phillip]

The president did not make his vote by ballot exactly. After he counted the votes, and saw that there was a tie, he voted."

[David A Foulkes]

Sounds like a couple issues here are that there weren't any tellers, and that the President voted after the polls were closed.

Wondering if the "winner" got a majority of votes cast?"

[Guest H.Wm.Mountcastle]

>>The president did not make his vote by ballot exactly. After he counted the votes, and saw that there was a tie, he voted.<<

Not exactly?

If your bylaws call for a ballot vote then the president's "vote" was illeg"

[Guest Phillip]

So with that said. The president has already announced the results of the election via email, well the "winner" anyway. So are we still able to push for another vote?"

[Guest JDStackpole]

Sure. An e-mail notification is not a proper declaration of the winner (unless your bylaws authorize such).

But if he made the announcement of a winner at the meeting, and there was no prompt point of order (p. 243-244) that there were irregular"