Voting on Potential New Members?

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Hello all,

I am a member of a colony that is on the brink of getting its charter. Our chapter size is 70, putting us around 5th on campus. We are looking at a large spring recruitment class. There are some controversial PNM's, which have led many brothers suggesting the implementation of the fairly common voting process, where the chapter votes on members before giving bids. The majority of the Fraternity is in support of this initiative.

I am a non-exec chairman and have been asked to spearhead the effort. The problem is, I am a second semester freshman and haven't been around as long as some of the older guys. I feel a bit uncomfortable bringing up this issue, mostly because my Big is the recruitment chair and he has been quite vocal to me in his opposition to the system. He feels he would have no responsibility if the voting was agreed upon. Recruitment is an exec. position for our Fraternity.

So what I'm asking is, what are your experiences with voting in pledges? And how would you recommend I approach this problem? The proper procedure would be to put it to vote during chapter, but I would hate to be the one to stand up and call it to vote.