Voting System.
Article 37
ART. 37. Voting System. — (1) Each member of a primary cooperative shall have only one (1) vote. A secondary or tertiary cooperative shall have voting rights as delegate of members-cooperatives, but such cooperatives shall have only five (5) votes. The votes cast by the delegates shall be deemed as votes cast by the members thereof. No voting agreement or other device to evade the one-member-one-vote provision except as provided under subsection (1) hereof shall be valid. No member of a primary cooperative shall be permitted to vote by proxy unless provided for specifically in the bylaws of the cooperative. However, the bylaws of a cooperative other than a primary may provide for voting by proxy, Voting by proxy means allowing a delegate of a cooperative to represent or vote in behalf of another delegate of the same cooperative.