Marmiew

The current By-Laws for our organization states "After obtaining the Chapter endorsements, the Nominating Committee shall meet to make up the slate for election." We have had nominations and endorsements for at least two people for several of our offices. The chairman of the Nominating Committee has called us together to determine which of the two people for each office will be the better candidate and that person's name will be put on the slate for that office. As a nominating committee member I feel uneasy about selecting just one of these people to be placed on the "slate" and feel this is giving us five people too much power for an organization of 1500+ people. Should we change the word "slate" to "ballot" in our By-Laws -- thereby, allowing us to send to the "Call for Conference" a ballot containing those names who have been nominated, rather than us as the Nominating Committee choosing between the two names for the offices concerned?