Rule 4

Conference Election Procedures

(a) VOTES BY SECRET BALLOT.—All contested elections shall be decided by secret ballot, and no proxy voting shall be allowed.

(b) NOMINATIONS.—

(1) Candidates for office shall be nominated in alphabetical surname order.
(2) For each Leadership nomination there shall be one nominating speech (not to exceed three minutes in length), and there may be two seconding speeches (each not to exceed one minute in length).

(c) BALLOTING PROCEDURES.—When there are more than two candidates for any office and none receives a majority of the votes on the first ballot, a quorum being present, the candidate with the lowest number of votes on that and each succeeding ballot will be dropped from the ballot until one candidate receives a majority of the votes, a quorum being present.