# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1917_S51
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1917. 51

the candidate receiving the least number shall be eliminated from
the next ballot. This process of eliminating the lowest candidate
shall continue until the highest candidates shall have secured an
absolute majority.

F. When the President has been elected, candidates for the
offices of General Vice-Presidents shall be nominated by ballot. For
each office three candidates shall be nominated (at present twelve
candidates for four vice-presidents), and these shall be those men
receiving the highest number of votes on the nominating ballot.
Thereafter the procedure is the same as in electing a President, the
lowest candidate being eliminated successively until the required num-
_ber of Vice-Presidents are elected by absolute majority.

G. After the Vice-Presidents have been elected, their relative
rank shall be determined by a special ballot, the man receiving the
highest number of votes being the First Vice-President and, even-
tually, the first successor to the President; and so on.

2. The Boards of all synodical institutions (including the Con-
cordia Publishing House) shall be elected in the following manner:
Each District within whose territory lies a synodical institution
shall, in its convention next prior to the convention of the Delegate
' Body, nominate a double slate of candidates for such institution.
The District Secretary shall forward these names to the General
Secretary, who will compile all lists, and turn them over to the Com-
mittee on Elections at the Delegate Convention, which Committee
shall submit same to Synod for ratification or changes before the
printing of the ballots.

When a District has failed to make such nomination, or when
men nominated are unable to serve, the representatives of the re-
spective District assembled at the Delegate Convention shall forth-
with proceed to make the necessary nominations.

3. The procedure in the election of the General Secretary, General
Treasurer, General Board of Control, General Mission Board (should
such be created), and of all other officers, shall be as follows: Synod
in its first session shall by ballot elect a Nominating Committee of
eleven members, of whom four shall be pastors, four laymen, and
three teachers. Each voter shall place on the nominating ballot the
‘name of but one pastor, one layman, and one teacher. ‘The four
pastors, four laymen, and three teachers receiving the largest number
of votes shall constitute the Nominating Committee. This Committee
shall then submit to Synod for the above-mentioned and all other
offices and boards not otherwise provided for a double slate of can-
didates, subject to ratification or change by Synod.

4. For all boards or commissions whose members must live near
each other the Nominating Committee shall submit two places, one
slate for each of these two separate cities.