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If a member of a board is absent for MORE than one meeting are they permitted to vote after watching two meetings worth of tapes?

Or is the rule just one meeting?

What's all this about "watching tapes"?

What tapes?

What is he watching for?

A member won't lose his right to vote just because he is ignorant on the issue(s).

A member is free to vote in the December meeting even if the member misses all the meetings of January, February, March, ..., October, November.

His prior absences have nothing to do with his rights of membership being exercised fully when he is indeed finally present.

Press the STOP button on the machine. Turn off the monitor. :)

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If a member of a board is absent for MORE than one meeting are they permitted to vote after watching two meetings worth of tapes? Or is the rule just one meeting?

Thanks

It sounds as though you are trying to clarify the meaning of a rule governing your own organization (perhaps something written in your bylaws?). In that case, RONR can help you only peripherally, by providing some principles of bylaws interpretation -- see RONR pp. 570-573.

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It sounds as though you are trying to clarify the meaning of a rule governing your own organization (perhaps something written in your bylaws?). In that case, RONR can help you only peripherally, by providing some principles of bylaws interpretation -- see RONR pp. 570-573.

However, RONR's default postion is that you have to be there in order to vote (RONR pp. 408-409) and a vote can't be changed (or added) after the results are announced and the next item of business is taken up (RONR p. 395).

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