A voting interest is defined as “an organization, a subsidiary of an organization, or an unassociated individual member having a distinctly separate interest from any other interests with regard to the scope of a committee or subcommittee,” while a voting member “has the official vote on ballots and motions concerned with ASTM standards.”
While each voting interest is allowed one voting member, the Regulations also define a non-official voting member as one “whose votes and comments on all ballots or motions shall be fully considered, but whose votes are not included in the calculation of the numerical voting requirements for standards.”
Each ASTM member, whether an official voting member or not, can vote on all Society Review items as well as on each ballot of a main committee and subcommittee to which the member belongs. Negatives and comments submitted from all ballot returns, from official and non-official voting members alike, must be considered.