+ 1 for Al
+ 1 for Kaz (not sure she needs a seconding though)
Michael - it doesn't work like that. The voting of executive positions closes once the positions are filled. In a circumstance like this, and when I stepped down as Pres back in 2004, there is a requirement for an Extraordinary General Meeting to vote in the new position. There are no reserves or understudies for these roles - to use your analogy, if the President of the US stood down it would be like passing the job onto the person who ran against him at the last election. It needs to be done again - it's just the way things work.
Which leads on to... it might be a good time to host the ol constitution somewhere. It was on the site a while back, but never put back on after a server crash.
J