02/07/2022, 19:07 Gmail - Cancellation of SERA executive elections

Harry Stratton <hstr2100@gmail.com>

Cancellation of SERA executive elections

SERA - Labour's Environment Campaign <organiser@sera.org.uk> 24 June 2022 at 23:00

To: Harry Stratton <hstr2100@gmail.com>

To all members,

We are informing you that the SERA

executive elections have been terminated and will be re-run.

As members will be aware on Saturday

4th June 2022 ballot papers were sent to every SERA member
who was a
member of SERA on that date. However, after the ballot was
sent out it was brought to our attention that two
candidates had been
left off the ballot paper in an administrative error.

In light of that, it was decided that the

most reasonable and speedy approach to rectify the mistake and to
ensure that
no-one was unfairly disadvantaged, was
to cancel the ballots issued on
4th June and reissue new
ballots with the two
candidates added. This was sent out
as quickly as was workably possible, on 7th June 2022 to
those who were
members on 4th June 2022.

SERA has since received a solicitors'

letter on behalf of a SERA member challenging certain aspects of the
executive
election process including the reissuing of ballots as
outlined above and threatening legal proceedings. We received a
further letter this evening from the same complainant repeating the
threat of legal proceedings.

We sought legal advice on these matters.

It was considered that the action taken had been reasonable and fair
to all
members. However, it has also been considered whether or not it
could be argued that the issuing of ballots on the
7th June could be constituted as an entirely
new ballot. If so, it would be arguable that the period for voting
would be
less than the 21 days required for voting outlined in the
SERA articles. It would not be possible to extend the voting
period as
the articles also require a return of ballots seven days before the
AGM. So, the safest course of action and
remedy was to cancel the
election and re-run it in order to assure validity of the election,
fairness to all members and
to mitigate any risk of further challenge
in the election process.  

In light of the ongoing legal threat and

the legal advice we have received, the only prudent option for the
SERA
executive is to terminate the current election immediately and
for the whole election process to begin again.
Accordingly, we can
confirm that the current election has been cancelled. Details of the
future election process will be
announced in due course.

The SERA executive

SERA - Labour's Environment Campaign

http://www.sera.org.uk/

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