Headquarters Staff will first send email to all members in [[Good Standing]], asking if they are willing and able to serve as ''MR'', or unwilling or unable. They will then prepare a ballot containing the names of all members in Good Standing, with three sections: Those willing and able; those unresponsive; and those unwilling or unable. Within each section members are listed according to the Warrant of Precedence for the Noble Company.
Normally, this first ballot is mailed with the ballots for election of [[Directors]], with the same deadline. This permits the results to be presented to the [[Board]] at their meeting immediately following the [[Annual Meeting]]. If one member receives a majority of the votes cast, the Board will then consider if they will be confirmed as ''MR''.
If the Board declines to confirm the candidate, a new ballot will be prepared with that member's name omitted.
To date, a second ballot has not been required, and lessons learned when that first happens may well illuminate needed changes in this procedure.
==Induction to Membership==