Annual Business Meeting of American Mensa

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The Annual Business Meeting of American Mensa is the official reason, under the bylaws, that the Annual Gathering of American Mensa exists. It is a meeting, open to all members of American Mensa, where the officers give reports on the status of the organization, and members are able to propose and vote on resolutions, or propose bylaws amendments to be brought to postal ballot of the membership. Most ABMs are fairly routine, but there have occasionally been significant actions at them, such as the one in 1995 at which chairman Dick Amyx resigned from his position. Formerly, the term of office of American Mensa Committee members officially ended at the close of this meeting in odd-numbered years, but that was later changed to a flat July 1 term change, in conjunction with bylaws changes that permitted a wider range of dates for the ABM in order to accommodate the 2006 World Gathering.

In 2004, the ProxyQuest vote, where a majority of the total membership was represented either in person or (mostly) in proxy, was passed to amend the certificate of incorporation to remedy an error of 30 years earlier under which past votes conducted by mail or having less than the quorum of half of the membership were technically invalid.