The NARALO Operating Principles call for the NARALO Chair to cast a vote
(a 2nd vote if he/she is a voting representative) in order to break a tie
in a NARALO ALAC Member election
(
http://tinyurl.com/NARALO-OperPrin-Sep2013, section 13).
Since in this case the Chair is one of the candidates, that would not be
appropriate. I have proposed that in the case of a tie, we use Section 19
of the Operating Procedures instead, the procedure designed to break a
tie for the Chair or Secretariat. In essence this would mean the three
NARALO ALAC Members break the tie.
Both candidates have agreed to this procedure.
Clearly we need a revision to fix the problem in the future, but that is
not today's task.
Alan (wearing my hat as the NARALO "rules guy" and not ALAC
Chair)