electronic voting

[Guest DVMatOAH]

When a parent organization of constituent groups holds all votes at a public meeting by electronic tally software and results are posted on a tote board by percentage (for and against), are the individual voting records public information and available to voting member organizations?

For example, if a resolution sponsor organization requests the voting record breakdown of how each group voted on the resolution, is it considered valid and the tally by voting member group available to the sponsor?

Thank you!

[Chris Harrison]

Because RONR doesn't address your question you will need to look to your rules for the answer.

[Kim Goldsworthy]

When a parent organization of constituent groups holds all votes at a public meeting by electronic tally software and results are posted on a tote board by percentage (for and against), are the individual voting records public information and available to voting member organizations?

For example, if a resolution sponsor organization requests the voting record breakdown of how each group voted on the resolution, is it considered valid and the tally by voting member group available to the sponsor?

Your question is a bit jumbled as to the real parliamentary issue:

Are the individual voting records public information and available to voting member organizations?

• There is no such thing as "public information" as such, within the 700+ pages of RONR. So what you mean by that phrase is subject to interpretation.

• Minutes are accessible by all members of the organization; so all voting records recorded in the minutes is accessible to all members. If the minutes contain X, then X is data which any member may read. The organization may or may not choose to distribute Data X as it wishes, like via a press release, or via a newsletter. But the organization is under no obligation to distribute the contents of its minutes, or parts thereof.