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Subject: RE: [BOARD-L] Confusion Motion 05-24
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 21:22:16 -0500
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Linda,

I believe the Bylaw that addresses voting and the SOP explain very well how
we are expected to vote and be counted.

The first problem we ran into this session with voting was that a vote was
called with no time frame included and the results were declared after only
22 hours and the outcome could have been different.

What happened with this vote is clearly against what is in the Bylaws & SOP.

Linda B.

-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Haas Davenport [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 8:41 PM
To:
Subject: [BOARD-L] Confusion Motion 05-24


Before I read any of the 250+ e-mails I have received today I
would like to explain why I declared motion 05-24 and then
withdrew it and stated the voting could continue.

I apologize for the confusion. I misunderstood the meaning of our
Voting SOP. My post this morning explains how I thought declaring
a vote was suppose to work. My thanks to John Schunk for taking
the time to explain the correct procedure in detail. If I had
read John's e-mail before my post this morning I would have
withdrawn my declaring of the vote then. When I did read it, and
had the chance to talk to Josh, I posted the withdrawal and
stated that voting could continue.

The correct method for declaring a vote during the 48 hour voting
period is:

A vote is be declared at any time during the 48 hour voting
period when enough votes have been cast that the remaining votes
will not change the outcome. In other words, at any time during
the voting period if 9 votes (a quorum) have been cast and 5 of
those votes are no the vote is to be declared because the
remaining votes even if all yes votes will not change the
outcome. On the opposite side at any time 9 yes votes have been
cast the vote is to be declared as the remaining votes will not
effect the outcome. When in doubt the date/time stamp of the vote
will decide.

Once we are past this motion I would very much like to see the
Voting SOP modified to more accurately explain the above.

Again, my apology.

Linda Haas Davenport
NC USGenWeb Project



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