would prevent this right being exercised, excepting when it would change the vote) all are entitled to vote; for if this were not so, a minority could control an assembly by including the names of a sufficient number in a motion, say for preferring charges against them, and suspend them, or even expel them from the assembly.[1]
When there is a tie vote the motion fails, unless the Chairman gives his vote for the affirmative, which in such case he can do. Where his vote will make a tie, he can cast it and thus defeat the measure [§ 40]. However, if there is a tie vote on the motion to “strike out” [§ 23] the words are struck out, because the question which has failed is, “Shall these words stand as a part of the resolution?” But in case of an Appeal [§ 14], though the question is, “Shall the decision of the Chair stand as the judgment of the assembly”? a tie vote sustains the Chair, upon the principle that the decision of the Chair can only be reversed by a majority.
Another form of voting is by ballot. This
- ↑ But, after charges are preferred against a member, and the assembly has ordered him to appear for trial, he is theoretically in arrest, and is deprived of all rights of membership until his case is disposed of.
