Signed ballot

Signed ballot

A signed ballot is sometimes used as a substitute for a roll call vote. It allows the members' votes can be recorded in the minutes without the chair having to call the names of each member individually. [RONR (10th ed.), p. 406] A motion to use a signed ballot is one of the motions relating to methods of voting and the polls.

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