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-The Board shall establish voting requirements for community-elected seats by Board policy. The Board must confirm, by majority vote, any community-elected Director before they take their seat. If this is not satisfied, the elected Director may not take their seat, and the Board must hold a special election where the person elected in the first election is ineligible. The Board must also hold a special election at the beginning of the month after a mid-term vacancy occurs.
+The Board shall establish voting requirements for community-elected seats by Board policy. The Board must confirm, by majority vote, any community-elected Director before they take their seat. If this is not satisfied, the elected Director may not take their seat, and the Board must hold a special election where the person elected in the first election is ineligible. The Board must also hold a special election at the beginning of the month after a mid-term vacancy in a community-elected seat occurs.
 ===Elections and Appointments===
-All elections and appointments to the Board must be done in the fifth month of the year (May) except in case of vacancy mid-term, or in case of failure to confirm a community-elected Director, in both cases, a new election must be held as described above.
+All elections and appointments to the Board must be done in the fifth month of the year (May) except in case of vacancy mid-term, or in case of failure to confirm a community-elected Director, in both cases, a new election must be held as described above, except that in the first case, appointed seats where a mid-term vacancy occurs may be replaced by appointment of any person qualified to serve as a Director.
 ===Vacancies===