– Open Voting Clause Samples

– Open Voting. The SDT shall direct the RE Staff to post the revised draft Standard and other relevant documents including, implementation plan, supporting technical documentation, and summary of comments. RE Staff will schedule a vote by interested parties to commence no sooner than 15 days and no later than 30 days following the posting of the revised draft. Members of the ballot body shall be allowed to vote over a period of 15 days. Voting will be through electronic means or other means provided by SPP. Registration in a ballot body created for a specific proposed regional standard is required to vote. Registration for a proposed Standard is noticed on the SPP website and through a Standards email exploder for a period of 15 days prior to the start of the ballot (subscription to the Standards email exploder is open to any interested party through the SPP website). All interested parties who register with the ballot body may vote on the proposed new Standard, Standard revision or Standard deletion. An interested party may only register in one segment. The five SPP voting segments for Regional Reliability Standards are: 1) Transmission 2) Generation 3) Marketer/Broker 4) Distribution/Load Serving Entity 5) End User and Public Interest RE Staff will accept votes any time during the 15-day ballot period for the Standard. Votes will be counted by voting segment. Each voting segment will receive 20% of the vote. A weighted vote of 2/3 affirmative of those voting will pass a Standard for further consideration (Step 7). If the vote fails to achieve a 2/3 majority of those voting, the Standard will be returned to the SDT for consideration for future action (Step 3). The SDT may: revise the Standard; post the Standard again for comments; reballot the Standard; ask the RE Trustees to terminate the request; or any other action it deems appropriate. The RE Trustees are notified of the outcome of the vote and any actions taken by the SDT as a result of the vote. The RE Trustees will determine any additional action to be taken. (See Step