# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S136
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

136 Proceedings of the 28th General or

...majority is required — striking and a new ballot continue to take place until the absolute majority is achieved.

§10. After the election of the Vice-Presidents has taken place, a further vote shall determine which of them is to be the first Vice-President, or the second, third, etc., in such a way that the one who has the highest number of votes is the first Vice-President — the eventual successor to the office of President. Depending on a lower vote count, it is then determined who is to serve as second, third, etc. Vice-President.

§11. The election of all other synodical officers shall be carried out immediately after the election of the President and the Vice-Presidents, in such a way that the names of all candidates proposed by the committee and accepted by the Synod (see §2 of the Regulations) are placed on a ballot by the election board and sent to be printed. — An exception to this applies to such candidates, or persons currently holding office, who, having been recommended by the nominating committee for election by the Synod's acclamation, have been immediately elected by the latter in accordance with the recommendation.

§12. The printed ballots thus bearing the names of all candidates — always presented in double number — shall be handed out to the voting members of the Synod at an afternoon session, one copy each. Voters are permitted to take the ballot given to them to their lodgings and there, at leisure, make their choice by crossing out half of the names of those they do not wish to see as synodical officers.

§13. At the following morning session, the ballots are collected by the election board, counted in the sacristy of the church, or in a room set apart from the Synod's meeting place, and the result of the election is brought to the Synod's attention by the chairman of the election board at the following afternoon session.

§14. As soon as the elections begin, all voting members of the Synod are to gather in the middle section of the church, or of the Synod's meeting place, so that time may be saved and other inconveniences avoided.

Election Colleges. Expanded Supervisory Boards.

Various petitions on this matter were presented in printed form. The Synod replaced the former General Election College — which was discharged with heartfelt thanks for its many years of highly important and valuable service — with the supervisory boards of the individual educational institutions, to which a few additional members from the district concerned, or from a neighboring synodical district, have been added as further members of the respective election college. To the boards thus formed there were further