# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1127
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462 CONSTITUTIONAL, MATTERS

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Resolution 4

AUGMENTING ELECTION COMMITTEE
Memorial 501, page 304, Section 6.

Elections Committee.”

Report of Committee on Convention Election Procedures

“We have distributed thirt
450 ballots or a total of 171,000 votes,

on Nominations,”

Nore. — The Sco f thi .
study of the policies rad is Committee was broadened to j
Distei : c and practices con P to include the
istrict conventions. Cf Proceedings of 192) the holding ee medical and
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CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS 463

aragraphs of the synodical Handbook studied by the Com-
e are the following: 1.51, 1.53, 1.57, 2.121, 2.129, 2.139, 2.141,

Re: 1.51, Electoral Circuits of Member Congregations.
‘Qur Committee recommends no change in this paragraph.

Re: 1.53, Election of Delegates to Convention.

> Our Committee recommends that the last sentence of. this

agraph be changed to read as follows:

‘If these proceedings have not been printed or if in the mean-

Hie changes have become necessary, the certification of election

the District Secretary or the District President shall entitle the

* delegates to vote, provided every lay delegate presents credentials

“as' aforesaid.”

“Re: 1.57, Electoral Circuits of Advisory Members.

‘:« Qur Committee recommends that the last sentence of this

-_ paragraph be changed to read as follows:

te “The registered name in the printed Proceedings of the

| District or the certification by the District Secretary or the District

President shall entitle the elected representative to recognition by
Synod, but without vote.”

Re: 2.121, Committee on Elections.

Our Committee recommends that this paragraph be changed
to read as follows:

“A Committee on Elections shall be appointed by the Prae-
sidium at least six months prior to the next convention. I¢ shall
consist of seven pastors, three teachers, and five laymen. The
committee shall have power to augment itself. The members of
this committee need not be voting delegates to the forthcoming
convention. The Committee on Elections shall be responsible for
the preparation of the official ballots, the balloting, and the tabu-
lation of the votes cast.”

Re: 2.127, Primary Election for President.

Our Committee recommends. that this paragraph be changed
to read as follows: ,

“Balloting for candidates for the office of President shall be
done no later than the second business session of the convention.”

Re: 2.129, Candidates for the Office of President.
Our Committee recommends that the following sentence be

added to this paragraph:
“However, if on the nominating ballot any one. candidate
receives 75 per cent or more of all votes cast, he shall be declared

elected.”