Amend constitution to add exception for officer elections eligibility #50
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Aug 26, 2021
| @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Officer meetings will be held once a week, although the president may choose to | |||
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| Officers must attend all general club meetings. They must come prepared with a specific project they can help a new member start contributing to, and they must spend time during meetings either helping someone else or working on that project themself. | |||
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| Elections will be held at the end of each academic year. Any active member may run for any position, but a member may hold at most one position at a time. Any active member may vote, and whoever receives the most votes may choose to accept the position. If the same person wins multiple positions, a re-vote will be taken for the position they do not accept. Outgoing officers may choose to reject one candidate by unanimous agreement and offer a position to the candidate with the next greatest amount of votes. | |||
| Elections will be held at the end of each academic year. Any active member or, in special circumstances, anyone from the Vanderbilt student community deemed eligible by the outgoing officers may run for any position, but a member may hold at most one position at a time. Any active member may vote, and whoever receives the most votes may choose to accept the position. If the same person wins multiple positions, a re-vote will be taken for the position they do not accept. Outgoing officers may choose to reject one candidate by unanimous agreement and offer a position to the candidate with the next greatest amount of votes. | |||
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How about saying "Elections will be held at the end of each academic year. Any active member may run for any position, but a member may hold at most one position at a time. If, by the deadline for applying for a position, the members running for positions are all the same people as the outgoing officers, then anyone from the Vanderbilt student community that the outgoing officers deem eligible may run in place of one or more outgoing officers."
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Add exception to eligibility for officer elections in extreme cases, as deemed by the outgoing officers