# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_August 25 26 2012_S4
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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 shall be 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 write-in ballot, except those
who were eliminated through the election of the lay delegate, shall be eligible for
election as the alternate.
(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.
(hf) All four personsDelegates elected shall come from four different member
congregations.
(ig) 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.
(jh) If neither the delegate nor the alternate (pastoral minister of religion--ordained
or lay) canis able to serve, the vacancy shall be filled by an appointment made by
the district president in consultation with the respective circuit counselor(s).
3.1.2.2 Voting delegatesDelegates shall serve from the time of election until the next district a
three-year term beginning with the convention, shall functioning as advisory members
of the circuit forum, shall serve as resource persons in the circuitto the congregations
they represent and to the district and national Synod, and shall assisting in the
dissemination and implementation of reports and resolutions of the Synod in the
circuitnational convention.
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