Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Bylaws on voting

RCW's on electronic voting...


The bylaws provide for the election process.  The Revised Code of Washington clearly states that the voting process can be outlined in the bylaws.

RCW 24.03.085

Voting.

(1) The right of the members, or any class or classes of members, to vote may be limited, enlarged or denied to the extent specified in the articles of incorporation or the bylaws. Unless so limited, enlarged or denied, each member, regardless of class, shall be entitled to one vote on each matter submitted to a vote of members.
(2) A member may vote in person or, if so authorized by the articles of incorporation or the bylaws, may vote by mail, by electronic transmission, or by proxy in the form of a record executed by the member or a duly authorized attorney-in-fact. No proxy shall be valid after eleven months from the date of its execution, unless otherwise provided in the proxy.
(3) If specifically permitted by the articles of incorporation or bylaws, whenever proposals or directors or officers are to be elected by members, the vote may be taken by mail or by electronic transmission if the name of each candidate and the text of each proposal to be voted upon are set forth in a record accompanying or contained in the notice of meeting. If the bylaws provide, an election may be conducted by electronic transmission if the corporation has designated an address, location, or system to which the ballot may be electronically transmitted and the ballot is electronically transmitted to the designated address, location, or system, in an executed electronically transmitted record. Members voting by mail or electronic transmission are present for all purposes of quorum, count of votes, and percentages of total voting power present.
(4) The articles of incorporation or the bylaws may provide that in all elections for directors every member entitled to vote shall have the right to cumulate his [or her] vote and to give one candidate a number of votes equal to his [or her] vote multiplied by the number of directors to be elected, or by distributing such votes on the same principle among any number of such candidates.

1 comment:

Paul Hoffmann said...

This is what I more or less asked for with my member request. The board perverted this by not recommending it. They mentioned costs, my cost estimates were much cheaper than vote by proxy, they mentioned security, just as safe as facebook, target, home depot, and others that were recently hacked.As I mentioned before this should have been put on the 2019 annual meeting election ballot.I did not recommend doing away with proxy voting as some may not have electronic means.This is doomed to fail. The member request form does not function as it should as I recently submitted a request to the L&B comm in late July.
As of today no response.My electronic voting request took almost 10 months before any action at all. Really disappointed.Just vented.