Revised rules
Original rules November 1, 1995
Revised October 30, 2010

Voting Rules
· The meeting to elect members of the Order will be held at the April
Business Meeting.

· Nominations may be made by any male 14 years of age or elder who is in
attendance at the meeting.

· Nominations must be made in person.

· Each voting member may only make one nomination per year.

· The meeting will be presided over by the newest member of the Silver
Heart in attendance.

· The vote shall be taken as a stone vote, with each voter depositing a
"white" (or yes) stone or a "black" (or no) stone.

· The list of nominees is taken and then a blind vote for each person is
taken. Once all the votes are complete, the votes are counted for each person.

· The nominee must receive 75% or more of the votes to be inducted into
the DOA, with only 1 person inducted per year. Unless the following occurs:

1. If more than 1 person receives 75% or more votes, then a run-off vote
will be taken to narrow down the list to 1 person.
2. If a nominee receives 100% of the votes, then they are automatically
inducted into the DOA.


Procedural Meeting Rules
· Meetings to consider changes to the election process may only be held
between September 1 and January 31. Procedural Meetings must be called at least
one month in advance, and must be announced at the business meeting and at
fighter practice.

· The quorum at a procedural meeting must be 15.
To be counted as a quorum voter, a voter must have had his name included on the farspeaker list,
and must be 14 years of age or older.

· Changes to the rules for elections require a 75% vote.

· All rules changes must be published in the Whetstone.

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Rules of Presentation

• The Book of the Daughters of Aduin is required to hold the Court Presentation of the Daughters of Aduin ceremony.
• Court presentation is to be read by the most recent member of the Silver Heart attending the event and not otherwise engaged.
• The man who nominated the lady being inducted will give her the apple pendant, if he is in attendance.
• (Tradition holds that the apple pendant is made of amber polished into an apple shape and strung so as to be worn about the neck.)
• The List of the Daughters of Aduin will be kept in the Book of the Daughters of Aduin.