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First brush up on your Parliamentary Procedure: No one can force an open vote. No one. ok?
Now lets say your normal procedure was to have open voting. All in favor etc etc.
Now we come to the expansion debate. The motion on the floor is to recognize CRABS. The motion is debated and someone calls the question (the vote is called).
Now is where someone raises their hand or whatever and moves for a secret ballot. If the chair failes to recognize the speaker i.e. ignores him to continue with the vote, the person stands to a point of parliamentary procedure and explains that he has a substantsive motion to propose that must procede the vote.
It needs a second, is not debateable and must have a majority to pass.
What it sounds like happened. Is that the vote was supposed to be by ballot. Like an Election. That procedure is usually set down in your by-laws dealing with this type of business.
So the motion your ass kissing friend used was probably wrong.
It sounds like he would have needed to Move to Suspend the Rules in order to force a Roll Call vote in the face of your normal procedures . . . how odd.
It must have been this way because if the vote was going to be open anyway, why motion for a Roll Call vote (where the members are identified)?
I would be interested to here how it happened. Who is the parliamentarian of the group?
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