If a motion is put forward to be voted on and no person puts forward a vote token, is it then upto the Chairman to "break the tie" or is the motion simply discarded?

By the way the rules are written it would seem that all ties are broken by the Chairman. My friends and I were split 50-50 on this, the arguement being that if nobody voted for it, it did not merit being put forward, or that the Yes and No votes were tied at 0/0 so the the Chairman would break that tie.

Anyone have any opinions or solutions?

My last solution was that as the Chairman breaks all ties if there were a dispute on the rules that was split 50/50 then the person who was Chairman at the time would break the dispute with his vote. LOL.

Chair man break the tile

even it is 0 against 0 it still count as tile so chairman break them

I would say the Chairmen gets to put his vote to pass or fail the vote.

Think of it in terms of no other Baron stated they had a problem with the vote going either way, so they just left it up to the chairman to decide. Since he faced no opposition he is free to rule as he pleases on the matter, benefits of such a grand station.

It is actually in the rules earlier that it states that the chairman breaks all ties, even when no one votes.

Donzos.

you can only cast a vote if you reveal a vote token. if your outstretched hand does not reveal a vote token then you cannot cast it.

the chairman breaks ties of votes. if no one votes there is no tie of no-votes, the agenda simply has not been voted on.

i.e if all members of the assembly reveal empty fists (ie no vote tokens ) then they cannot cast their vote or decision. so in effect there is no tie to break because no one actually voted. the agenda card is placed on the discard pile where it can be re-voted on during a private motion.

lastthai said:

see my post above for clarification

this is not a tie, no-one has voted in this example.