Operations and Procedures

Election of the Knight Commander

The length of term is one year, and thus elections are to be held annually.

Voting

All votes, including election of the commander, are by simple majority of the participating active knights in good standing, unless otherwise indicated. Inactive or retired knights do not vote, nor do Initiate/Yeomen/Squires.

In the event of a deadlocked vote, the deadlock will be broken by doubling the Commander's vote.

Abstentions do not count toward the total in a vote. Knights that are absent from a vote count as abstentions.

Changes to the bylaws require 2/3 majority or quorum of all active knights in good standing.

Votes are organized and conducted by the Knight Commander. Votes must have a minimum duration of a week to give members a chance to participate. However the duration is up to the Knight Commander, and some may have longer durations. Votes will be organized on the Order's forum (currently the ModernChivalry.org forum, since the Order has grown out of this forum).

An emergency vote can be called by the active knights in good standing to remove the current Knight Commander. A 2/3 majority or quorum of all active knights in good standing is required to remove the Knight Commander.

Low Membership

Should there be less than five active Knights, Founding Members of the Order may be substituted as alternate sponsors for new members into the Yeoman/Initiate level, and for knighting existing Yeomen, until such time as there are again five active Knights.

In the rare event that there are fewer than five available active Knights and Founding Members total, Yeoman may also be substituted in.