The Jeremy Golf and Country Club Bylaws Section 5.4 Nomination and Voting for Directors.
The election of Directors shall be according to the following procedure:
(a) A nominating committee chaired by the past Club President consisting of five (5) Shareholders able and willing to so serve, shall, prior to the September meeting of the Board of Directors15, select and put into nomination preferably six (6) or more candidates each of whom must be a Shareholder in good standing.
(b) Additional candidates for Director may be placed in nomination by a petition signed by not less than fifty (50) Shareholders. These fifty (50) Shareholders may submit the name of only one (1) Shareholder per petition. The signed petition shall be delivered to the President of the Club prior to the October 15. meeting of the Board of Directors.
(c) The list of all candidates submitted by the nominating committee and the names of all other candidates, arranged alphabetically, shall be typed or printed on the ballots prepared by the Secretary.
(d) One ballot shall be mailed or delivered to each Shareholder on or before November 10. A sample copy of said Shareholder ballot shall be posted on a bulletin board in the Clubhouse, and shall be kept posted until after the election is completed.
(e) Ballots shall be returned to the Clubhouse by 5:00 pm on the day stipulated on the ballot (commonly the third Friday of November).
(f) The names of the Shareholders voting shall be verified and the envelopes containing the ballot envelopes shall be opened and the ballot envelope contained therein shall be delivered unopened to the election judges for counting. Any such ballots received at the Clubhouse prior to the closing of the polls shall be similarly checked and tallied. Any ballots received after the time stipulated on the ballot or returned without being enclosed in an official ballot envelope shall be null and void.
(g) Upon closing the polls the Secretary shall count the votes and report to the President, in writing, the result of the election.
(h) A ballot shall be void and of no effect if the Shareholder casting the vote shall cast votes for more candidates than are to be chosen.
(i) The candidates receiving the highest number of votes for the offices to be filled shall be declared by the President to be elected to such.
(j) In case of a tie between the candidates receiving the highest number of votes for the office of Director, or between two candidates receiving the next highest number of votes, they shall be declared elected; in case of a tie vote between two candidates receiving the third from the highest number of votes, a decision on the election of the third Director shall be determined by a secret ballot, or ballots at a special meeting of the Directors as constituted at the November meeting of the Board until one of the two runoff candidates receives a majority vote. (l) The term of the new Directors shall commence January 1st. |