The Editor:
The Editor provides LULAC'ers with a more detailed piece on Division of the Assembly at page 280 and 281 of Robert's Rules of Order, Revised. This is the page that a parliamentarian would turn to to give the assembly an understanding of the procedure that is followed to get a count of the vote. A smart presiding officer, in the case of LULAC, the Election Judge, is vested by Robert's Rules of Order to assess the temperature of the house and at his/her discretion ask for a count of the vote when the vote too close to call. If not, Robert's Rules state that the standard practice is to give the assembly an opportunity to call for a count on its own motion, that is on the motion of a delegate in the assembly. A call for a division takes precedence over any other motion after the last vote is cast, does not require a second, is not debatable, in not amendable, and, in its purest forms, does not require a vote. The United States Congress uses a 1/5 requirement of the Congress present to request a record vote, which is what a division of the assembly is in the Congress. The Rules Committee in California LULAC and in National LULAC have illegally created a rule requiring a 2/3'rds .majority from the General Assembly to have a roll call vote, a division of the assembly, where the outcome of the vote is determined by the counting of the delegates voting for each LULAC candidate in elections that are too close to call by a simply non-counted stand up vote. In Texas LULAC, Elia Mendoza did away with the Rules Committee and substituted herself for the Committee and has proposed that the Texas LULAC General Assembly use the same 2/3'rds super majority vote to get a count of the vote. What these self-serving LULAC leaders want is to cheat their way to another year as heads of LULAC. They want to railroad their way through the General Assembly without having a true count on any vote that comes before these General Assemblies in the respective 2014 elections.
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