The bylaws require President/Chair to be run first. If a majority is not elected in one vote for President/Chair, then other elections can be run next according to the normal discretion of those running the meeting.
Article 7: Election, Tenure, Removal, and Resignation of Officers and Managing Directors
D. Requirements and Conduct of Elections for Membership-Elected Positions
8. If an election for President and for other Member-Elected Positions is occurring at a Meeting, then an attempt to elect the President must occur prior to attempted elections for any other Positions.
The bylaws also state that a board member-elect has until the close of the meeting to accept or decline a winning election, and that if the winner declines, then the election is voided, and a new one must be held. (Declining the election in this specific manner is
not treated as a resignation, which would have a different sequence of events.) The purpose of this is to facilitate a single person running for multiple positions when they only want to retain a single position, but perhaps don't know which position they can win,
and so that this is possible regardless of the order of elections.
As corollaries of this, to ensure that the above is effective, the bylaws also state that elections do not cause a change in office until the close of the meeting they take place in, and also, until all elections have had at least one vote, the meeting cannot be closed without an affirmative two-thirds vote of the members present.
Article 7: Election, Tenure, Removal, and Resignation of Officers and Managing Directors
C. Election and Tenure
2. An individual shall take the office to which he or she has been elected at the close of the Meeting at which the election takes place. If the individual does not explicitly accept or decline the election, he or she shall be presumed to have accepted the election.
a. If prior to the close of the Meeting in which an election has occurred, an elected person expressly declines the Position, the election shall be void and another election for that Position must be held.
Article 10: Meetings, Voting and Quorum
B. Meetings of the Membership
7. It shall be sufficient to close a Membership Meeting:
a. If any action that the Members have a right to take for which valid Notice was given to occur at that Meeting has not yet occurred, then by a two-thirds vote of the Members present and casting a vote, or;
b. If all actions that the Members have a right to take for which valid Notice was given to occur at that Meeting have occurred or been voted on, then by declaration of the presiding officer of the Meeting, or a majority vote of Members present and casting a vote.
