# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S202
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202 Constitutional Matters

stitution or institutions, including the Publishing House, which may
be within its own territory (Boards of Control, Boards of Electors
except for the seminaries and normal schools, Board of Directors
of the Publishing House). The Secretary of the District shall send
the list of nominations to the Secretary of the Synod. The Sec-
retary of the Synod shall tabulate the names received from all
Districts, print them in the book of Reports and Memorials, and
send them to the appointed Committee on Elections, which shall
then present the list of candidates to the Synod for the purpose of
having it ratified or amended before it is printed on the official
ballot. Whenever a District has failed to nominate its candidates,
or if the nominated candidates cannot serve, the members of that
District present at the meeting of the Synod shall nominate the
candidate.”

Paragraph 1 of the section on P- 73 should remain as it is;
paragraph 3 should be numbered as paragraph 2 and remain as
it is; paragraph 2 should become paragraph 3 and remain as it is,
but the following words should be added: “Nominations for the
electoral boards for the seminaries and normal schools shall be
made by Synod through its Nomination Committee”; paragraph 4
should read as follows: “The members of the Boards of Electors
for the colleges shall be elected in the following manner: The
District in whose territory 2 so-called college is located shall, in
the year prior to the meeting of Synod, nominate a double slate of .
candidates for the Board of Electors for such college, which nomi-
nation shall in the following year be submitted to the Synod for its
approval, rejection, or amendment. For this purpose the names
of such candidates as well as the candidates for the Boards of
Control shall be published in the book of Reports and Memorials
printed before the meeting of the Synod. . If no written protest or
substitute nomination is presented to the judge of elections during
the synodical sessions and before the election, the entire list sub-
mitted shall be approved by one single resolution of the Synod.”

There would still be another way of procedure with regard to
nominations, which is followed successfully by smaller church-
bodies. The Election Committee appointed by Synod’s President
sends a nomination ballot to each delegate a certain time before
the convention. The delegate fills in name and residence of his
candidates and returns the ballot to the Election Committee by
a stipulated date. The committee counts the names and places th
four highest on the election ballot. Ballots are to be ready at th
opening of the convention, and balloting is to begin on a certai:
day of the convention. We doubt, however, that such a procedur
would be satisfactory in a large body and with so many boards an
committees to be nominated and elected.