Voting for Officers

Nota bene: if a chapter does not send 2 delegates (1 if they have only 1 delgate attending State Convention) to Candidates Open Forum, that chapter forfeits their votes.^C6.4

Voting for Officers occurs either at State Convention or at a Board meeting in the event of a vacancy.

At State Convention, each officer is elected by the chapters that make up the WJCL, with each chapter entitled to 2 votes (unless you have only 1 delegate attending convention, in which case you get 1 vote) plus 1 additional vote for every 25 members or major fraction thereof^C6.1. (For example, if your chapter has 40 members, you get 4 votes: the 2 you are entitled to plus the 2 you get as a result of your number of members. 40 divided by 25 is 1.6, which is 1 and a "major fraction", 0.6.) Note that this count involves number of members, not number of delegates attending State Convention^C6.1.

Nota Bene: Votes of abstention are not counted in the total vote count, whereas votes of No Confidence are.

At State Convention, you vote at your chapter's voting fellowship, which takes place on the 2nd day of convention. You vote by filling out a ballot that reflects your chapter's voting decisions, which will be given to you by the Parliamentarian, and that you will give to a person announced at the 3rd GA.

In order for a candidate running uncontested to win their election, they must get over 50% of the total votes cast. For a candidate in a contested election to win, they must get more votes than both the other candidate and the amount of No Confidence votes cast in that election, but if a contested election has more than 2 candidates and no candidate receives more than 50% of the total votes cast, a run-off election occurs between the candidates with the two highest vote counts. Ties in this run-off election are broken by the State Chair(s).^C6.2