# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S312
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312 — CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS

Our Committee recommends the addition of this newt
agraph:
2,154 Publication of Lists of Candidates
The Committee on Nominations shall have its complete
candidates for all offices published in “Today’s Business” af,
one day prior to the time when the convention shall be ask
approve the slate. The approved slate shall thereupon be pub!
in the next issue of “Today’s Business,” and the official
shall be printed. At least one full day shall have elapsed aft
approval of the slate of candidates by the convention befo
voting begins. ‘
Our Committee recommends also the addition of these
agraphs:
2.156 Time, Place, and Manner of Balloting

a) There shall be no balloting during convention se
except for the President and Vice-Presidents of Synod,
determine the rank of Vice-Presidents.

b) In the session immediately following the completi
election of Synod’s Praesidium, the convention shall receive
report of the Committee on Nominations. §

c) The Committee on Elections shall have received froti
Secretary of Synod, or from the Registration Committee, a
plete file of all voting delegates in attendance.

d) Voting delegates shall call for their ballot at a tina
place designated by the Committee on Elections. Polling.; re
shall be clésed during the sessions of the convention. The.
mittee on Elections shall also officially announce a deac
terminate the balloting, and then to announce the elections ele

e) Tabulation of the votes shall be done in the c
manner of one reader and one tabulator working as a team.

f) The chairman of the Committee on Elections shall :
a copy of tabulated votes of each election, certified by at:
three members of the committee, to the convention chairn
the Secretary of Synod, and to Synod’s Department of
Relations.

g) All ballots of each election shall be separately bundleg
preserved until the close of the convention. The preservati
the destruction of all ballots shall be the specific duty of thet
man of the Committee on Elections.

Pastor E. A. Scnuetr, Chairman (Glencoe, ‘

Pastor A. G. FEHNER, Secretary (Mankato,
Mr. Ernest Bake (Tulsa, Okla.) ;