Motion #08
The separate election for Deputy Leader in 2022 identified a gap in our gender balancing rules leading to no women being on the ballot. This motion corrects that for all roles elected in the Annual Ballot.
In Section 9 of the Constitution (Annual Ballot), amend Clause 9(iii) which currently reads:
“The nominations for all posts included in an Annual Ballot shall open at 10.00 on the first week-day in June and close at noon on the last week-day in June. Voting shall close on receipt of the last post on the last week-day of August or five week-days before the start of the Autumn conference, whichever is the sooner.”
So that it reads:
“The nominations for all posts included in an Annual Ballot shall open at 10.00 on the first week-day in June and close at noon on the last week-day in June. Where there are posts where there is not at least one valid nomination from candidates who are women or gender diverse, noting that gender is self-determined, or there is not at least one valid nomination from candidates who are people of colour, nominations will reopen for these posts. In this scenario, nominations must reopen within 3 working days of nominations closing, and must remain open for at least one full week. In this extended nomination period, nominations will only be accepted from candidates who fit the criteria leading to the reopening of nominations. Voting shall close on receipt of the last post on the last week-day of August or five week-days before the start of the Autumn conference, whichever is the sooner.”
Not yet debated
Delete clause in second sentence of proposed motion, “or gender diverse, noting that gender is self-determined,” so that new proposed sentence reads: Where there are posts where there is not at least one valid nomination from candidates who are women or there is not at least one valid nomination from candidates who are people of colour, nominations will reopen for these posts.
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In the sentence in the motion which reads:
Where there are posts where there is not at least one valid nomination from candidates who are women or gender diverse, noting that gender is self-determined, or there is not at least one valid nomination from candidates who are people of colour, nominations will reopen for these posts.
Insert after “people of colour,”
or there is not at least one valid nomination from candidates who self-identify as having a disability, then
So that it reads: Where there are posts where there is not at least one valid nomination from candidates who are women or gender diverse, noting that gender is self-determined, or there is not at least one valid nomination from candidates who are people of colour, or there is not at least one valid nomination from candidates who self-identify as having a disability, then nominations will reopen for these posts.
Not yet debated
Replace the sentence in the motion which reads:
In this extended nomination period, nominations will only be accepted from candidates who fit the criteria leading to the reopening of nominations. So that it reads: In this extended nomination period, nominations will only be accepted from candidates who fit (at least one of) the criteria unrepresented in the first round of nominations which led to the reopening of nominations.