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Tom -

The CIPS National Constitution and By-Laws do not make any provision for the
use of proxy voting.  And there are no CIPS National policies in place for
proxy voting of members at General Meetings of the membership.  The Industry
Canada guidelines for governance of a Not for Profit society such as CIPS
recommend that Proxy voting be prohibited.

BTW - I have never seen a non-member barred from a CIPS General Meeting of
members.  At the National GM's, a colored 5x7 card has typically been issued to
the members in attendance so they could use it during the voting process.  This
allows interested parties to come and observe/participate while protecting the
rights of members to vote on motions.

Ken Chapman, ISP
Chair, CIPS National Constitution Committee

Tom Ruta wrote:

> Rick Penton <rpenton@csmgmt.com> wrote:
>
> >Just a point of clarification here.  John's initial post was regarding the
> >Special General Meeting (SGM) of the Toronto section.  Faye's response was
> >with regards to the National SGM.
>
> Here's what Robert's Rules of Order says on this.
> http://www.constitution.org/rror/rror-08.htm#46:18
>
> Now, what does the CIPS constitution say?
>
> Tom
>
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