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%META:TOPICINFO{author="StanleyBlum" date="1149433567" format="1.1" version="1.1"}%
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%META:TOPICPARENT{name="TDWGConstitution"}%
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---++ Bylaws
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_ACTIVE DRAFT_
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_Our intention now (2006-06-04) is to remove the process of ratifying standards to the TDWG Process (which will be proposed as a standard itself), and to limit the scope of the Bylaws to other procedural matters, including voting._
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Voting rights are given to individual and institutional members. Each member is entitled to one vote within that category. Significant decisions about the organization (changing the constitution, dissolution) should require a majority (defined as >50%?) in each class of membership; i.e., a majority of indvidual members and majority of institutional members. Any voting procedure should afford all members sufficient opportunity to vote by an expedient manner, but should not unduely impede decision making.
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A decision requiring a vote should be announced via the organizations normal communication medium, and open for a minimum of 90 days. An individual's vote should never be made public, but mechanism should guarantee that only entitled members can vote and vote only once.
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---+++ Voting Procedures
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Previously, voting procedures were addressed in:
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*Article 3. Membership*
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"Members in good standing are entitled [...] to participate in all *votes*. "
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"*voting* rights, are suspended if the membership fee is two years in arrears."
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*Article 4. Meeting*
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Each member, whether institutional or individual, shall normally be entitled to a single *vote* on each motion. Individuals attending the meeting and *voting* by combination of multiple membership, or as a delegate for another *voting* member, are limited to three *votes* on each motion. Institutional members shall be represented by a member of staff or other delegate designated in writing. Prior to the opening of the meeting institutions and projects must notify the Secretary as to whom will be representing their organizations during *votes*.
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*Article 6. Officers*
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"Secretary [...] organizes *votes*."
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*Article 8. Amendments*
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This constitution may only be altered by a two-thirds majority of the membership *voting* by postal *vote*. [...] In order to be acted upon in either case, the text of the proposed alteration, and ballots for those members entitled to *vote*, must be dispatched to the membership at least sixty days before the annual meeting. Ballots must be returned by members to the Secretary prior to the tally of the *vote* at the annual meeting.
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By-laws may be adopted, altered, or repealed by a majority of the membership voting by postal vote, upon written proposal by the Executive committee dispatched to the membership at least sixty days before the *voting* deadline.
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For the purpose of this Article, the words "postal *vote*" may also mean a vote by electronic means (the concrete procedure to be specified beforehand by the executive committee).
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Article 9. Dissolution
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Dissolution of TDWG can only be enacted by a two-thirds majority of the members *voting* at a meeting, summoned for that specific purpose by the Executive Committee at least 180 days in advance, and by a two-thirds majority of institutional members voting at that same meeting.
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*BY-LAWS*
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"The annual meeting may then recommend the standard for adoption, whereupon the standard will be submitted to the membership for ratification by postal *vote*. A two-thirds majority of *voting* members and a two-thirds majority of *voting* institutional members is required to ratify the standard."
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------
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Each member, whether institutional or individual, shall be entitled to a single *vote* on any motion.
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-- Main.StanleyBlum - 04 Jun 2006
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