# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2010_S127
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ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE
tion Workbook the names and tallies of all ordained ministers
who have received nominating votes for the offices of President,
First Vice-President, and other vice-presidents in line of succession .
(e) Groups and individuals within and without the Synod
are urged to refrain from circularizing the Synod or areas thereof relative to favoritism in nominations for President, First VicePresident, and other vice-presidents in line of succession .
3 .12 .1 .1 Candidates for the offices of President and First
Vice-President shall be in each instance the three five ordained
ministers receiving the highest number of votes in the nominating ballots of the congregations, and the candidates for the offices of vice-presidents two through five shall be the ten twenty
ordained ministers receiving the highest number of votes in
nominating ballots of the congregations for other vice-presidents in line of succession .
(a) The Secretary of the Synod shall notify each candidate
and shall secure his approval in writing for inclusion of his name
on the convention ballot . Each candidate shall reply within 10
days as to his willingness to serve if elected .
(b) In the event of the death, declination, or unavailability of
any candidate, the nominee having the next highest number of
votes shall become a candidate .
(c) In the event of a tie for the final candidate position, all
names involved in the tie shall be listed as candidates .
3 .12 .1 .2 The Secretary of the Synod shall post on the Synod’s Website and publish in the Convention Workbook brief biographies of the three five candidates for President, the three
five candidates for First Vice-President, and the ten twenty candidates for vice-presidents two through five . This report shall
contain such pertinent information as age, residence, number
of years in the Synod, present position, offices previously held
in a district or the Synod, year of ordination, former pastorates,
involvement in community, government, or interchurch affairs,
and any other specific experience and qualification for the office ., and if the candidate so desires, also Opportunity to provide
a brief personal statement shall be offered to each candidate for
publication in an official periodical, this statement also to be
posted on the Synod’s Website .
3 .12 .1 .3 The convention shall have the right to alter each
slate at the proper time by amendment .
(a) The amendment procedure shall include merely a motion, a second, and a vote on the amendment, deliberately excluding verbal characterizations and discussion of the motion
(except for the chair to ascertain that the requirements have been
met as to eligibility, consent, and the filing of the biographical
form) .
(b) Delegates making nominations from the floor shall have
secured prior written consent of the candidates they wish to
nominate .
(c) Such delegates shall immediately submit to the Secretary of the Synod this document and written pertinent information concerning their nominee(s) as detailed in Bylaw 3 .12 .1 .2 .
(d) After all such amendments have been voted on, the convention shall ratify the slate of candidates prior to each election .
3 .12 .1 .4 Each voting delegate shall be entitled to vote for
one of the candidates for President . The candidate receiving a
majority of the votes cast shall be declared elected .

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(a) If no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast, the
two four candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall
be retained on the ballot, and another vote shall be taken .
(b) Thereafter the The candidate receiving a majority the
smallest number of the votes cast shall be declared elected eliminated on each subsequent ballot until one candidate receives a
majority of the votes cast .
3 .12 .1 .5 After the results of the election of the President
have been announced, the convention shall then elect the First
Vice-President according to the procedures outlined for the
election of President in Bylaws 3 .12 .1 .3 and 3 .12 .1 .4 .
3 .12 .1 .6 After the results of the election of the First VicePresident have been announced, the convention shall then elect
vice-presidents two through five as outlined in Bylaw 3 .12 .1 .3 .
The rank of vice-presidents shall be determined by the order of
their election or, if more than one is elected in the same voting,
by the number of votes received by each .
(a) Should one or more of the candidates be elected to the
office of President or First Vice-President, their names shall be
removed from the ballot without requiring the addition of other
names to the ballot .
(b) In the election, each voting delegate shall be entitled to
vote for as many candidates as there are offices to be filled . A
candidate whose total vote equals or exceeds a majority of the
number of delegates voting shall be declared elected .
(c) If more candidates receive a majority than there are offices to be filled, those receiving the greatest number of votes
shall be declared elected .
(d) If not all offices are filled in such voting, the candidate
or candidates receiving the least number of votes shall be eliminated so that two candidates remain for each office to be filled
and another vote shall then be taken .
(e) This procedure shall be followed until all the offices
have been filled .

Action: Adopted (10)
(During discussion, an amendment was introduced to delete the
proposed change to Bylaw 3 .12 .3 .6 (a), a change accepted by the
committee as a friendly amendment . A motion to refer the resolution back to the floor committee due to its size and number of
changes was introduced and discussed, but the motion failed [Yes:
287; No: 816] . After further discussion, Res . 4-07 was adopted as
changed [Yes: 930; No: 182] .)

To Improve Procedure for Establishing Synod
Convention Times and Locations
RESOLUTION 4-08
Overture L4-26 (TB, pp. 39-40)
Whereas, For practical reasons, the date and location of
a convention site must be determined and contracted several
years in advance of a Synod convention and prior to the most
previous convention; and
Whereas, Current bylaws regarding convention date and
location do not allow for efficiency and expediency in this
regard; and
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