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...several council members departed early to support an event in Loker Commons, leaving the council without a quorum...
...council wanted to make its recommendation before the church's next administrative board meeting, scheduled for February. It almost wasn't able to, however, since it barely achieved a quorum...
...which were 70.5 percent in favor of the referendum. He said there was evidence of vote fraud that "constitutes a clear and glaring violation of the constitution and referendum law, crudely flouts human rights and makes the referendum results illegal." But across town, members said they had the necessary quorum to declare themselves the actual, working parliament, and seemed determined to follow their new ally. "Those people in that other building are just a group of deputies sitting around talking," said one of them, former Communist lawmaker Ivan Pashkevich. "The parliament can work wherever it wants." Parliament had united...
...Redux by a 5-to-3 vote on the question of safety when it first came up for consideration a year ago. But a few hours later, FDA official Dr. James Bilstad reopened the discussion after some committee members had left the meeting. Since there was no longer a quorum, a new meeting was called for two months later, in November...
...says, is because it became clear that the vote to reject was invalid: at least one member had misunderstood the wording of the question on the table. "Obviously," says Bilstad, "we wanted a nonambiguous recommendation from the committee." Some members had left the meeting, though, and without a quorum he couldn't proceed. He considered polling the absentees by phone, but the FDA counsel advised against doing...