# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2010_S158
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RESOLUTIONS

(b) Elections shall be by written ballot . Candidates for election as delegates to the national convention shall be the delegates
attending the district convention, except for those unwilling or
unable to serve .
(c) The privilege of voting shall be exercised by one pastor and one layperson from each member congregation of the
circuit, both of whom shall have been selected in the manner
prescribed by the congregation . Multiple parishes shall be entitled to a lay vote from each member congregation . Time shall
be allotted on the district convention agenda to allow the delegates from each electoral cluster to caucus in order to select its
delegates to the following national convention .
(d) All pastors who are not advisory members under Article
V B of the Constitution shall be eligible for election . A circuit
counselor appointed by the president of the district shall chair
the caucus . Nominations shall be received and delegates elected
in the following order: (1) minister religion–ordained delegate;
(2) lay delegate; (3) alternate minister religion–ordained delegate; and (4) alternate lay delegate .
(1) Each voter may write in the names of two pastors
on the initial ballot . The three pastors (or more, in case of
a tie vote) who receive the highest number of votes in this
preliminary ballot shall be placed on the next ballot .
(2) Each voter shall now vote for only one candidate .
Balloting shall continue with the lowest candidate being
removed from each succeeding ballot until one pastor shall
have received a simple majority of all votes cast, whereupon
he shall be declared the pastoral delegate .
(3) The congregation or congregations served by the
elected pastoral delegate shall be removed from consideration for supplying any other voting delegate or alternate for
that particular convention .
(e) A majority ballot vote is required for the election of each
delegate . Prior to the meeting of the electoral circuit, each congregation may nominate one layperson, either from its congregation or from the circuit . These names must be submitted to the
circuit counselor prior to the day of the circuit meeting and shall
constitute the slate of candidates . All congregational nominees,
except those who have been eliminated through the election of
the pastoral delegate, shall be eligible for election .
(1) Each voter may write in the name of two of the remaining lay nominees on the initial ballot . The three laypersons (or more, in case of a tie vote) who received the highest
number of votes in this preliminary ballot shall be placed on
the next ballot .
(2) Each voter shall now vote for only one candidate.
Balloting shall continue with the lowest candidate being removed from each succeeding ballot until one layperson shall
have received a simple majority of all votes cast, whereupon
he or she shall be declared the lay delegate.
(3) The congregation from which the lay delegate has
been elected shall then be removed from consideration for
supplying any alternates to that particular convention .
(f) All other pastors who received votes in the initial writein ballot, except those who were eliminated through the election
of the lay delegate, shall be eligible for election as the alternate .
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(1) Each voter shall now vote for only one candidate .
(2) Balloting shall continue with the lowest candidate
being removed from each succeeding ballot until one pastor shall have received a simple majority of all votes cast,
whereupon he shall be declared the alternate pastoral delegate .
(3) The congregation or congregations served by him
shall be removed from consideration for supplying the remaining lay alternate .
(g) All lay nominees except those who have been disqualified through the procedures listed above shall be eligible for
election as the alternate lay delegate . The election of the alternate shall follow the same procedure as in paragraph (f) above .
(h) (f) Each four persons delegate elected shall come from
four different member congregations .
(i) (g) The circuit counselor(s) selected to chair the caucus
shall report the results of the election to the secretary of the
district in writing immediately after said election .
(j) (h) If neither the delegate nor the alternate (pastoral minister religion–ordained or lay) can is able to serve, the vacancy
shall be filled by an appointment of the district president in consultation with the respective circuit counselor(s) harmony with
Bylaw 3 .1 .2 .1 (a) .
(i) Delegates are certified by the submission of their names
and addresses to the Secretary of the Synod by the secretary
of the district using official registration forms provided by the
Secretary of the Synod .
3 .1 .2 .2 Voting delegates Delegates shall serve from the time
of election a three-year term beginning with until the next district convention, shall functioning as advisory members of the
circuit forum, shall serve as resource persons to the congregations they represent and to the district and national Synod, in the
circuit, and shall assisting in the dissemination and implementation of reports and resolutions of the national convention Synod
in the circuit .
(a) Delegates They are responsible to the circuits the congregations they represent and shall attempt to discover the sentiment of the members thereof ., but the congregations
(b) Congregations shall not require their delegates them to
vote in accordance with specific instructions, but every delegate
shall be permitted to vote according to his or her own conviction .
(cb) Delegates are expected to be faithful in attendance at
They shall attend all sessions of the convention . All duly elected
voting delegates shall attend all sessions regularly until the close
of the convention . Delegates who arrive late or leave early or
who do not attend at all shall and present a written excuses to
their respective district president for all absences, late arrivals,
and early departures .
(d) Delegates shall report the actions of the Synod to their
circuits after each convention, preferably appearing before each
of the congregations they represent .
3 .1 .3 .1 Each district shall select one advisory delegate for
every 60120 advisory ordained ministers and specific ministry
pastors, and one advisory delegate for every 60120 commissioned ministers on the roster of the Synod . Fractional groupings
shall be disregarded except that each district shall be entitled to
at least one advisory delegate in each category .