HFPA’s New Bylaws Confirm Plans for Golden Globes Voting by Non-Members and Emeritus Members

thewrap.com:

TheWrap previously reported, the new bylaws would also open up Globes voting beyond the current 102 active members to a select group of “other individual non-members as the Board of Directors may invite to participate from time-to-time.” Interim HFPA CEO Todd Boehly has proposed inviting approximately 200 non-member voters to nearly triple the total pool to 300 — a step designed to gain the support of Netflix as well as other studios, streamers and networks.

A rep for the HFPA did not comment on the bylaw amendments. The new bylaw changes reverses changes that had been adopted with the HFPA’s bylaws that were approved last summer.

At the time, TheWrap reported that Ropes and Gray, the law firm retained by the HFPA in the midst of its reform push last year, recommended that emeritus members not be allowed to vote.

But some older HFPA members threatened to either resign or file an age discrimination lawsuit if the group sought to strip them of voting and paid travel privileges.However, an individual with knowledge of the HFPA said that despite debate over the rule, the policy was adopted as part of the bylaws and that Ropes and Gray had no legal or tax objection to allowing emeritus members to vote.