I am a District Commissioner and can tell you from what my Council Commissioner (who voted) told me is that it was a secret ballot. The 1400+ delegates are all volunteers - no professionals had a vote. My Scout Exec told us that the meeting before the vote he was pretty sure the resolution would not pass and was shocked it passed and more so by the margin it did. My council had five votes and all were No. They surveyed us first to see what the will of the Council was, and then voted accordingly.
Tuxedo graciously filled in some of the details, secret ballot. Is each delegate responsible for the votes of just one council, or do delegates cast votes for multiple councils? I take it councils are by location, each council could have scout groups from different charters (Baptist, Catholic, PTA, etc.)?
Sorry if these are stupid questions! I think part of the problem here is getting the definitions to sink in for me (council, charter, region, so on) as used by the Scouts.
Did your Council Commissioner/Scout exec think everything was above board with process of voting? I figure people like you and them would have a sense of that better than others.
Freegards