My office isn't on the poll. I'm Marshal and a PM. In our Lodge, Marshal is not part of the "line", so it can be filled by a PM without "running the risk" of going back up the line.
Next year, I'll strongly suggest to the WM that we extend the line down to include Marshal and Master of Ceremonies. We've got too many young sideliners who haven't been through the chairs (three of them have been raised since the WM took office, so he couldn't have appointed them, and a couple are newly-returned Brothers). It is good that the only other PM's in office right now are our Chaplain, Tiler (traditionally, our Junior PM, as in many Lodges), Secretary, and Treasurer. All other officers have not been to the East.
So, we got that goin' for us, which is nice.
TU