#54933
TrulEConcerned
Flatchatter

    Jimmy-T mentioned that there is one proxy form only. This is correct. I was unclear earlier in communicating that the proxy giver can specify what restrictions if any she wants to put on the one standardised proxy form.

    My point on the proxy giver referring to “matters” v “motions”  is to interdict what I heard happened once some years ago at a scheme I was not involved with: the agenda listed say 9 Motions and a proxy form required the proxy holder to vote against say Motion 7, without specifying what the matter under consideration was.

    As the scheme was self managed and the committee often strayed from the rules, not that anybody cared about such behaviour, at the AGM the Secretary said he had to leave early and while he would not be around for all the motions, he would be present for voting on four motions.

    So rather than say vote on the first four motions as per the agenda (after which he was to leave), he unilaterally and from what I heard, without dissent, re-badged the original “Motion 7” as  the new “Motion 4”, with original Motion 4 becoming new Motion 5, original Motion 5 becoming new Motion 6 and original Motion 6 becoming new Motion 7.

    In the process this neutering the proxy holder’s express wishes. He was now voting against the AGM’s Motion 6.

    As the proxy holder was an uninterested party and one that was never apprised of the matter the proxy giver wanted him to vote on, he (like everyone else) raised no objections to the relisting of motions at the AGM.

    By the time the proxy giver rcvd the minutes, weeks later, it was too hard and too late to return the horse to the stable.