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Election By Silent Consent
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If articles require annual election of member to a Committee and existing Comm members
express their willingness for re-election, is a "silent approval" vote acceptable - meaning voters
ONLY vote for an alternative candidate. The "silence" indicates approval en bloc ?
express their willingness for re-election, is a "silent approval" vote acceptable - meaning voters
ONLY vote for an alternative candidate. The "silence" indicates approval en bloc ?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If there are ten places on the committee and ten or fewer people stand then they are elected unopposed. If eleven or more put their names forward then an election is held. All eleven (or more) must stand for election and voters choose ten of their choice. Existing committee members get no preferential treatment in that election (unless the organisation's rules say otherwise).
Thanks for the response. This annual election process is usually
conducted at an AGM attended by the Membership - Covid has put an end to this so in the absence of a gathering, given a virtual zoom/skype meeting is not practical we thought email/phone voting
should be reserved for a "No" vote and accept the silent remainder
voted "Yes" in bloc. No alternative candidates are standing....
conducted at an AGM attended by the Membership - Covid has put an end to this so in the absence of a gathering, given a virtual zoom/skype meeting is not practical we thought email/phone voting
should be reserved for a "No" vote and accept the silent remainder
voted "Yes" in bloc. No alternative candidates are standing....
The absence of a vote should never be taken as a vote one way or another. Sounds very dodgy to me, possibly illegal, or at least against club law.
I was secretary to a conservative club for many years, annually we had N committee to elect, if N or less put their names up (proposed and seconded of course) then they were all elected unopposed and we would seek to co opt for any spare places. if there were more than N there was a vote with the top N winning, each member could vote for N different people.
I was secretary to a conservative club for many years, annually we had N committee to elect, if N or less put their names up (proposed and seconded of course) then they were all elected unopposed and we would seek to co opt for any spare places. if there were more than N there was a vote with the top N winning, each member could vote for N different people.
For one tghing the very term: "Election By Silent Consent" - assumes that anyone not turning up to vote intended the default, there are 101 reasons why someone may not turn up to vote. The more I think about this the more dodgy it seems. Would you say that all those that do not vote in a general election should be deemed to have voted for the incumbent government? Of course you wouldn't.
JD: "Nothing dodgy about it. You only have elections if the contenders outnumber the vacancies. Silence implies consent is a well-established legal maxim. " - Agreed but that is not what the OP said, that's what happens in my example. The OP appears to say that incumbent members are deemed to have been voted for by all members other than those that voted directly for another candidate.
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