A majority vote shall be required for election to any office except that a two-thirds vote shall be required for re-election to a third (or more) continuing term in the same office.

This has raised quite a problem as you can have no election when one party returning for a third term gets 56% of the vote and the other party gets 44%. Could you help with a more viable bylaw? - Anon., Jan. 27, 2000

A: Actually, the bylaw is workable as it is. It is similar to the common rule that says that a member is elected by a majority of the votes. If there are three candidates, for example, it's possible no one receives a majority of the votes (e.g., 40%, 35% and 25%). In that case, there is no election; you re-ballot. See RONR pp. 431-32.

In your case, like the simpler example, no candidate received the necessary proportion of the votes required for election; you re-ballot and continue to re-ballot until an election is accomplished. You may want to allow the candidates to speak to the electorate to perhaps persuade some to change their votes. Or a member may wish to withdraw.