VOTE

SUBJECT

REFERENCE

Blank Ballot

Not to be counted

63-4

Dual Vote

Permitted the Grand Master in case of a tie

19-4

Final Vote

Effect of

36-10.20

Grand Tyler's Vote

Not required

19-3.2

Majority Vote

In all cases not otherwise provided for

19-6; 30-10.25

To change the place for the annual communication

18-1; 36-10.23 B

To reconsider a vote

19-7; 63-15

To vary the order of business

37-3

No Vote

Delegate of a lodge U.D.

3-5; 39-11

One absent when the question was first put to vote

41-6 (28)

One personally interested in the question

41-6 (28)

One vote

Grand Officers

19-3.2

Certain officers of lodges, or their proxies

3-4; 19-3

Members of the Grand Lodge, as such

19-3.5

Reconsideration of vote

When and how made

19-7; 36-10:18&19; 63-15

Three-fourths vote

To revise or draft a new Constitution or Code

10-2

Three votes

Each chartered lodge has

3-4; 19-3

Tie votes

Grand Master can break

19-4

Two-thirds vote

To amend the Constitution

10-1.4

To amend a Regulation

10-1.4

To appropriate money from the Permanent Fund

5-7.1

To approve incorporation of a subordinate lodge

4-6

To change after 12 o'clock noon of second day

of the annual communication proposals to:

¾ Amend or revise the CODE

36-10.23 A

¾ Change time or place of annual communication

36-10.23 B

¾ Create or change the compensation to be paid to any one by the Grand Lodge

36-10.23.F

¾ Introduce a subject relating to the financial affairs of The Grand Lodge

36-10.23 F

¾ Present any claim against the Grand Lodge

36-10.23 E

¾ Restore a suspended or expelled Mason

36-10.23 C

To create or change the compensation to be paid by the Grand Lodge to anyone

21-2; 36-10.23 F

To elect the Deputy Grand Master

12-2

To elect the Grand Master

12-2

To entertain a second time, motions previously lost

36-10.13

To suspend the rules of parliamentary usage

36-10.27

Unanimous consent

Not permitted in election of officers

12-2

To finally dispose of any business not reported on by a board, commission or committee

27-3; 36-6

Vote as Proxy

Grand Officers cannot

3-3.2

Past Grand Elective officers may

3-4; 19-3.4

Vote by ballot

When demanded by one member

19-1.1

Vote by a proxy

As many proxies as he holds, but not more than three

19-3.4; 19-5

Vote by a roll-call

When demanded by three or more members

19-1.1

Vote of absentee

Cast by ranking lodge officer or by his proxy

19-3.1

Who must vote

Every brother present having the right to vote unless excused by the Grand Master

19-3.6; 36-10.6

Yea and Nay

Not permitted

19-1