May 24, 2023, which is 6 months after the ballots are emailed to the designated meeting contacts, as required in the Service Manual version 7.1 on page 62:
“Should a conference motion pass which seeks to change the text of the Steps, Traditions, and/or General Warranties, the written consent of three-quarters of all groups, as required by the Conference Charter, shall be obtained as follows: The proposed change shall be sent to all meetings registered with World Services and, after no less than 6 months, those ballots returned shall be counted. A yes vote of three-quarters of the returned ballots shall be sufficient to meet the requirement of the Conference Charter to implement the proposed change(s).”
And the ballots with your group/meetings’ group conscience must be returned using the unique meeting ID provided to you on May 24, 2023 by 11:59 p.m. in the latest possible time zone where it is still 11:59 PM on May 24th 2023 (GMT-12) to allow the most possible time to submit your group/meetings’ vote on these proposed changes.
Note: Ballot responses were originally due by May 9, 2023.
As you see in the quoted section above, from SM v 7.1 pg 62, all meetings shall have no less than 6 months to return ballots. When originally planning the facilitation of this fellowship-wide vote, MA World Services was unsure of exactly how much work would need to be done to guarantee ballots have been accounted for properly and the exact time that process would take. As such, the deadline was set allowing just over 2 weeks prior to the Conference result announcement. Due diligence continued during the 6 month voting period, and the originally anticipated processing time decreased. As May 9 approached, there were still a number of groups/meetings which have not submitted responses. In an effort to ensure as many groups/meetings as possible could submit a group conscience, MA World Services extended the submission deadline.