can a church moderator be a VOTING member of a committee
The President of the United States has permanent voting privileges in Congress. This means that they can cast a tie-breaking vote in the event of a deadlock in the Senate. However, the president does not have voting privileges in the House of Representatives.
By voting of the current committee chairs
There is no such thing as a non-voting member. You are either a member or you are not a member. All members have full rights. Sometimes people think the Chair cannot vote unless there is a tie. The Chair has all the rights of other members, but usually abstains from voting to maintain impartiality. If you want to have such a thing as a non-voting member, define his or her rights in your bylaws.
disenfranchise
This means, roughly, "by way of office". This term is often used by people following Robert's Rules of Order. A person may be a member of a committee because he was voted into the committee by the membership. Other committee members may be members because of other positions or offices that they hold in the organization. As an example, the organization's elected treasurer may be, ex officio, a member of the Finance Committee, and this is made clear in the organization's bylaws, or other documents establishing the organization's authority. In this example, the treasurer doesn't have to be nominated as a member of the Finance Committee, and there is no vote on this. As soon as one is elected treasurer, she/he is "ex officio" a member of the Finance Committee. Or perhaps the Mayor is ex officio the member of some committee. This membership is not "honorary", as is sometimes mistakenly assumed. It is a full membership with the rights and privileges that go along with membership, unless limited by some other actions of the organization.
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Ex-officio (not sure of the proper term but ex officio members of a committee can vote). The term means by virtue of office. The VP of the US is an ex offico member of the Senate and can vote to break ties. In addition, Robert's Rules of Order specifically states than an ex officio member has voting rights.
The subject noun does not agree with the verb, the noun 'committee' is a singular noun which take the verb for singular: "The committee is...", not "The committee are..."The sentence, "The committee are voting this after noon." does not contain a collective noun.A collective noun is a word used to group people or things taken together as one whole in a descriptive way. A collective noun is a function of a noun, not a form of a noun.The word 'committee' is often used as a collective noun, but in the example sentence, it is not grouping anyone or anything. Examples of 'committee' as a collective noun:The committee of employees is voting this afternoon.The committee of students is voting this afternoon.Please note that the noun 'afternoon' is a closed compound noun, not an open spaced compound noun.
Not in the US. Any discrimination based on race is prohibited by law. That includes voting rights.
The difference between preferential voting and proportional representation voting is that in proportional representation voting more than one member can be elected for each electorate but in preferential voting only one member can be elected for each electorate. XOXO
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