# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1129
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS 465

e Committee on Nominations shall be required to obtain
e available pertinent information concerning each can-
roposed by the committee.”

Committee recommends the addition of. this new par-

2.154 Publication of Lists of Candidates

f he Committee on Nominations shall have its complete list of
idates for all offices published in “Today’s Business” at least
y prior to the time when the convention shall be asked to
ve the slate. The approved slate shall thereupon be published
tp the next issue of “Today’s Business,” and the official ballots
gill be printed. At least one full day shall have elapsed after the
appro oval of the slate of candidates by the convention before the
voting begins.

“Our Committee recommends also the addition of these par-
phs:

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2.156 Time, Place, and Manner of Balloting
_ ) There shall be no balloting during convention sessions
except for the President and Vice-Presidents of Synod, and to
determine the rank of Vice-Presidents.

.-b) In the session immediately following the completion of
élection of Synod’s Praesidium, the convention shall receive the
‘report of the Committee on Nominations.

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

d) Voting delegates shal] call for their ballot at a time and
place designated by the Committee on Elections. Polling places
shall be closed during the sessions of the convention. The Com-
mittee on Elections shall also officially announce a deadline to
terminate the balloting, and then to announce ‘the elections closed.

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

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

g) All ballots of each election shall be separately bundled and
preserved until the close of the convention. The preservation or
the destruction of all ballots shall be the specific duty of the chair-
man of the Committee on ‘Elections.

Pastor E. A. ScHuert, Chairman (Glencoe, Minn.)
Pastor A. G. FEHNER, Secretary (Mankato, Minn.)
Mr. Ernest BALKE (Tulsa, Okla.)

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