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If a slate of qualified officers has been created, and the person that accepted the nomination of Treasurer withdraws his name one day before the election, is the membership required to accept a nomination from the floor the day of the election from a member who may not be qualified for the position?

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If a slate of qualified officers has been created, and the person that accepted the nomination of Treasurer withdraws his name one day before the election, is the membership required to accept a nomination from the floor the day of the election from a member who may not be qualified for the position?

You can only accept nominations that are qualified according to the rules of your organization. Normally, nominations from the floor are accepted unless your organization has some special rule that says otherwise.

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is the membership required to accept a nomination from the floor the day of the election from a member who may not be qualified for the position?

When you say this person "may not be qualified", do you mean he just might not be up to the job or do you mean he doesn't meet the eligibility requirements? If the latter, there's no point in nominating him since, if elected, he couldn't serve. Why nominate a twenty-one-year-old when you have to be thirty-five to be President?

I suspect such a nomination would be ruled out of order.

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If a slate of qualified officers has been created, and the person that accepted the nomination of Treasurer withdraws his name one day before the election, is the membership required to accept a nomination from the floor the day of the election from a member who may not be qualified for the position?

Wait a minute.

"... who
may not be
qualified ..."

as opposed to

"... who
isn't
qualified ..."

Beware.

If someone CAN meet the qualification for office after being elected, and can do so BEFORE the first day of the start of the term of office, then no rule in Robert's Rules of Order will prevent an assembly from taking a chance, rolling the dice, and electing someone who isn't qualified AT THAT MOMENT, but could well be qualified some time before taking office.

Worst case scenario:

Come D-DAY H-HOUR, he does not qualify; and the assembly must hold Round Two of balloting; or fill a vacancy.

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I guess I have to ask the question: how is the person not qualified? Also, hold a ballot vote, where write-ins are allowed. If the membership really wants this other person elected, then he/she will be elected. Remember, as elections require a majority vote, then what the majority wants the majority gets.

While it helps to have someone with a background handling money (i.e. banker, bookkeeper, accountant, etc.) as the Treasurer, this does not mean that another person cannot do a good job.

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If a slate of qualified officers has been created, and the person that accepted the nomination of Treasurer withdraws his name one day before the election, is the membership required to accept a nomination from the floor the day of the election from a member who may not be qualified for the position?

Normally, the chair should call for nominations from the floor before the election and after the nominating committee report has been read, whether anyone withdrew or not.

The membership does not "accept" nominations, they are simply made, and do not require a second. If the person nominated is present, he might decline the nomination, which amounts to the same thing as withdrawing, or might accept it, which amounts to not doing that.

Even if nobody is nominated, or everyone nominated withdraws, the election is still held, with blank ballots on which voters can write names. To be elected, a person must receive votes on a majority of all ballots cast for that office. If there is nobody elected on the first ballot, second and subsequent ballots may be needed until a candidate is elected who is willing to serve.

RONR does not deal with "qualified" candidates so much as "eligible" candidates. Eligibility requirements, if any, for an office would be spelled out in the bylaws. If there are none, than any living human is eligible.

It is then up to the voters to determine who is most qualified.

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