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Rule 9: Method Of Voting
(a) Except when a Vote by Orders is required by the Constitution and Canons, voting on all questions before the Convention shall be decided by voice vote unless any ten members of the Convention shall jointly require a vote by ballot.
(b) In an election, whether by Vote by Orders or by ballot, if no election has resulted after the third ballot, the names of all persons receiving five percent or fewer votes (by the lay and clergy orders combined) on the third or subsequent ballots shall be withdrawn.
(c) Except in a Vote by Orders, each member of the Convention shall have one vote.
(d) In a Vote by Orders, the Presiding Officer shall appoint tellers. Each member of the Clerical Order shall have one vote and each Parish or Diocesan Church shall have one vote, under the unit rule, in the Lay Order. In elections in a Vote by Orders, balloting shall continue until there is a concurrence of the two Orders. In a Vote by Orders on motions resolutions or other business, if there be no concurrence between the Orders on the first ballot, such motion, resolution or other business is lost.
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