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- The election of diffinitors is held on the day appointed (see n. 357), under the presidency of the vicar of the province or the prior provincial in accordance with n. 507.
- It shall be decided by secret vote whether they shall be elected simultaneously or consecutively.
- With the consent of the majority of the voters, a discussion [tractatus] about those to be elected may be held before the election.
- All postulation is excluded; and the election shall be carried out in the following manner:
- if the diffinitors are to be elected simultaneously, the election ends in the seventh ballot in which a relative majority suffices;
- if, however, they are to be elected consecutively, and if for the election of any diffinitor nobody secures an absolute majority in the first three ballots inclusively, in a fourth and
final ballot only those two may be presented who received the greater number of votes in the previous ballot as in n. 494, § III.
- No document of election shall be drawn up; the results of the election shall be recorded in the acts of the chapter.
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