User:Savealife/Petition

Statement of fact
An initial Board of Directors has of necessity been mutually or self-appointed, and have served honorably since at least  August, 2007; however, at some point, after the end of the terms of those individuals (who are for the purposes of the By-laws, "appointed", as there have been no elections held), and, under provisions of the By-Laws they created, in ¶4.3.2 (B), i.e., after one year, an election shall have been held for these positions. Further elections to bring the total number of members to the full complement of [http://www.ourmed.org/index.php?title=Bylaws#Section_2._Number.2C_Tenure.2C_and_Qualification. five] have not been held to date, and no one has been appointed.

Petition
Whereas the By laws of Ourmed call for elections for members of the Board of Directors; and as no elections have been held to date; and, Whereas the bylaws of OurMed permit up to five members on the Board of Directors. (Article 4 Section 2); and, Whereas said members are to be elected "from the Community", pursuant to ¶4.3.4 (D) of the By-laws; and,

Whereas, due to the fact that the existing Bylaws have no  provision for when or how elections may be called for the Community to elect said Board Members, unless the existing Board chooses to act; and,

Whereas the "community", feels that there should be a ByLaws amendment to specify when and under what conditions elections shall be held; the following resolution is hereby presented to the Executive Director for presentation to the Board of Directors:

Be it resolved:
That the following amendment is hereby enacted and added immediately to the By laws of Ourmed, to read as follows:

By-law ¶4.3.7 (G) Elections
Elections for members of the Board of Directors shall be held at the anniversary of their terms of office pursuant to the definition thereof as defined in ¶4.3.2 (B), and shall be set either by majority vote of the existing Board of Directors, or may be called by the community, by majority vote of those participating in election, after 30 days notice has been given during a Friday call and to the official Ourmed Yahoo mailing list group, i.e., to all known interested parties, and the proposed date thereof posted on the site at least 30 days prior.

Candidates for elected positions shall be given an opportunity to state their candidacy prior to voting, by writing of a platform, and votes shall be cast online by tally of electronic signatures pro (for) or con (against).

Election results
Results shall be determined after one calendar week of online posting, by a simple majority of those voting.

Eligibility to vote
Only logged in editors with accounts on Ourmed shall be eligible to vote (votes under ip addresses only, shall not be counted), and no editor may vote more than once, under a second account; nor shall proxy votes be accepted.

Voting
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