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to the presiding officer, who calls the club to order and announces the vote 

 according to the facts and somewhat after the following form: 



" Number of votes cast, 30; number necessary to elect, 16. Mrs. A 

 received 20, Mrs. B 10. Mrs. A, having received a majority of all 

 the votes cast, is duly elected President of this club." 



The chaiiTnan announces that the next office to fill is that of Vice-Presi- 

 dent. Nominations are then in order. Mrs. G, it may be, nominates Miss 

 Halleck; Mrs. D, Mrs. Young; and Mrs. S, Mrs. Grant. The Chair asks 

 whether there are any other noininations. If there are not, nominations 

 are closed. The teller counts the ballots when all who desire to do so 

 have voted. When the tellers return, their chairman hands their report 

 to the chainnan of the club, who announces the vote: 



" Number of votes cast, — ; number necessary to elect, — ; Miss Hal- 

 leck received 9 votes; Mrs. Grant, 11; and Mrs. Young, 7." 



No one having received a majority vote, there is no 



When election, and the tellers have to prepare ballots again. 



a vote fails One of the nominees — Mrs. Young, perhaps — says that 



to give a she will withdraw in favor of Mrs. Grant. She may 



majority withdraw if she chooses to do so, but she cannot force 



the person who voted for her to vote for Mrs. Grant, 



and the chairman should so rule. Mrs. Young having 



withdrawn her name, only two candidates remain, and, 



A candidate unless there should be a tie, one of them should get a 



may withdraw majority vote. The tellers report to the chairman the 



result of the vote. The Chair announces the number of 



votes cast as — ; the number necessary to elect as — . Miss Halleck may 



have received 14 votes and Mrs. Grant 11; in that case Miss Halleck, 



having received a majority of all the votes cast, would be declared by 



the chairman as duly elected Vice-President. 



Other officers are elected in a similar manner. Unless there is a rule 

 to the contrary, the officers of the club assume their duties at once. 



A plurality vote is the highest number of votes over the 

 The plur- other candidates for the same office. A plurality vote 

 ality vote does not elect unless there is a nile allowing it to do so. 



The tie vote A tie vote does not elect; it necessitates balloting again. 



When to When a member is nominated for office, if she really 

 decline does not wish the office she should decline the nomina- 



nominations tion. 



