The violation was brought to the attention of the nominating committee and the election is going to be redone. Papers stating what happened were sent out and new nominations for each position have to be made by the cut off date. A new election will happen at the June meeting and hopefully everything will be done correctly this time.
We have a similar situation, where the practices of the nomination committee are questionable. Yet, the situation is a little bit more complicated. The addition on the ballot was a TEACHER running against HER CURRENT STUDENT'S parent. The executive board did not even know that anyone was running against this parent for the position until the ballots were handed out at the PTO meeting.
A member of the PTO needs to bring the possible violation to the attention of the Executive Board and the nominating committee. The candidate(s) who followed the bylaws and lost the election would be the most likely to contest the election results, especially since the vote was so close. Was the cut off clearly announced to all of the membership? Is the phone call to the committee a "fact" or just hearsay? Your executive board should investigate any bylaw violation and enforce the bylaws of the group.
We just had an election at our school PTO and the nominating committee didn't follow the by-laws for putting a candidate on the ballot. The cut off date was April 30 to announce intention to run and person called someone on the committee the day of the election and was put on the ballot. That person won by two votes. Who enforces this and how do we proceed to investigate it?
