bylaws
May 03, 1996 01:57 PM
by liesel f. deutsch
>When Chuck Ponsonby was National Secretary, he looked at the
>national bylaws and decided they did not exclude new members from
>voting, had a statement printed in the AT saying they could vote,
>and allowed them to vote in the election. It was at this point
>that the rules were relaxed.
>
>The situation, then, is not the retroactive imposition of new
>rules, but the renewed application of already existing and
>previously enforced rules. From this standpoint, it was not that
>certain new members that were previously entitled to vote are now
>retroactively denied that right. Rather, it is that certain new
>members were inadvertently allowed to vote in the past, when they
>should not have been allowed to do so.
In other words you apply the bylaws or not depending on whatever suits you
better.
Liesel
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