voting

[Guest Rosie]

When voting in new members, should the membership be told what the results were before the members return to the meeting. Our procedure is to notify the new member by mail.

[Kim Goldsworthy]

When voting in new members, should the membership be told what the results were before the members return to the meeting?

Our procedure is to notify the new member by mail.

The time to ANNOUNCE the result of a vote is WITHIN the meeting itself.

Why? Because there might be a motion to invalidate the results or challenge the results, like fraud, like a recount, like observing nonmembers casting ballots, like the ballot box being tampered with, etc.

So, technically, under Robert's Rules, you cannot have an announcement outside of a meeting, short of a rule saying otherwise, since voting is BUSINESS, and you need a QUORUM PRESENT for business.

You lose the ability to CORRECT ERRORS if you just blindly believe that the count is perfect, and no one ever makes mistakes.