when a vote ends

[Guest Chris G]

a special meeting is properly noticed to address one specific issue regarding voting rights. voting is permitted during the notice period. am i wrong to assume that the meeting allows for questions to inform voters and that voting concludes at the end of the meeting? or does voting conclude when the meeting is called to order? thanks......cg

[Chris Harrison]

Voting takes place AT the meeting. Absentee voting is not allowed unless your bylaws specifically provide for it.

[jstackpo]

Actually neither, at least unless you have special rules in place that say when the polls open and close, and whether absentee voting ("voting permitted in the notice period") is authorized in the bylaws.

Otherwise voting takes place only AT the meeting when the discussion of the issues comes to an end.

[Rob Elsman]

One can only wonder what is supposed to happen with the votes cast earlier, when the main motion is materially amended at the meeting. See RONR (10th ed.), p. 409, about this sort of thing.

[J. J.]

One can only wonder what is supposed to happen with the votes cast earlier, when the main motion is materially amended at the meeting. See RONR (10th ed.), p. 409, about this sort of thing.

One way to prevent that is to permit votes to be cast after the question is finally put.