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You may submit an item for consideration at any time by mailing it to the Secretary of the Electoral College. If appropriate, it will be added to the next meeting agenda. so allow adequate time. The agenda submission deadline for each meeting is 40 days prior to the actual meeting date. The only standard exception to this is the Annual Report Form, due by January 31st, e.v., of each year, unless it is being submitted with other paperwork.

Mail, including items for placement on the next agenda, may be sent to Deborah Woody, Secretary, Electoral College, OTO USA, PO Box 5741, Glendale, CA 91221-5741. Alternately, they may be sent in electronic format to the EC Secretary by clicking here.

Yes. Any person of appropriate degree (IXth) to volunteer for this appointment is encouraged to contact the President of the EC directly.

Electors are appointed by the Supreme and Holy King. They must volunteer for office following their Vth degree initiation. Potential volunteers (of the V° or K.R.E. degree) interested in more details of the duties and responsibilities of service on the EC may contact the EC President. He will forward requests from those who signify their intention to volunteer for the College to the Supreme and Holy King, who will review each petition.

I have a problem that I'm not sure if the EC addresses. Should I send it to the Electoral College?

We look at everything that is sent to us. If it is sent to us individually, and the item in question may be addressed through standard EC practices, we will address it. If not, we can assist by directing you to the most appropriate office or person.

If the Master is not a Fifth Degree or higher, yes it does. This is standard policy. However, the College would like the local bodies to know that the Mentors are liaisons between the local body and the College, and not micromanagers or minders.

Why does my Camp have to answer all of the questions in the Annual Report Form? Some of these relate to Lodge requirements!

At this time we have one ARF for all sizes of bodies. We have tried to make it as comprehensive as possible to fit all of the different types and levels of local bodies that there are. We like it this way, actually, because it tells us more about who you are and what stage you are at as a local body, than if we didn't ask all of those questions. We are very inquisitive.

Why do Camps-in-Formation have to fill out an Annual Report? They aren't even chartered yet!

Since the adoption of the Annual Report Form, it has been a requirement of Camp applications to fill out an annual report form which was to be submitted with their application. However, in the last year we decided that there was a lot of information in the basic ARF that wasn't relevant to an unchartered body. Currently, the modified ARF that we ask for with a camp application is the shortest version of that form. As above, the reasons for an ARF are so that the Electoral College knows, as well as we can, the body which we are chartering.

I am submitting a standard ARF for the Winter meeting. Do I have to submit another one during the January/February report cycle?

This is decided on a case-by-case basis by the ARF Secretary. If you would like to request an exemption so that your ARF may be used during the annual report cycle, please email her. She may request that you submit it twice if there are substantive changes to the information contained in the form, and in any case she may ask you to elaborate on specific areas of information.

In-person meetings may be attended by members in good standing of Ordo Templi Orientis who are of the Vth* or higher.

In-person meetings are held at local bodies who agree to host us. Upcoming meetings are announced on the EC News page, accessible from the top bar of this page.

By contacting the President of the Electoral College. Currently we have enough bodies to host us for the next two years or so, so you will be looking at a date a couple of years out. Sometimes the location is selected so that the EC can meet jointly with other USGL officers, and the order in which we visit bodies doesn't necessarily match the order in which they volunteered to host us.

Electronic submissions may be emailed to the Publications Secretary. This office, which was formerly held by a member of the EC, is currently undergoing transition, and a new post office box will be announced shortly. For the time being, please hold any publications until the new PO box is announced on Kaaba and Bodymasters.

Please see the list of currently active CIF's which we have started to maintain, located in the reference section. We are starting to receive a lot of requests for this service and so you may wish to check back after each EC meeting. Additionally, since these CIF's will be removed from that list as they become chartered, you may wish to recheck the USGL website's list of local bodies to determine if there is a recently chartered body close to you. Also, it is worth pointing out that since participation in the CIF program is not required by the EC to obtain a camp charter, there may be new local bodies that start up without ever showing up on the CIF list. In that situation, you can contact any Elector and we will put you in contact with anyone who may be organizing on their own in that area, if we have knowledge of them.

Please review all of the pages devoted to how to create a Camp, the first of which is located here.

Generally, we devote time to overhauling anything that we feel needs it in the week or two following an EC meeting, simply because we're updating the news page anyway and it's a good time to do so. Therefore, during this time period there is a higher probability that links won't work or pages will be missing. As ever, any website problems can be pointed out to the webmistress.

Is the EC opposed on principle to chartering multiple bodies in a given geographic area?

Some of the Electors are, and some aren't. Consequently, if you would like to start a Camp in an area that already has a local body, loosely defined as within an hour's driving distance from the existing body, you are going to have to convince a majority of seated Electors that you have a really valid reason for starting one; that your Camp would add to the Order's presence in that area in a positive way and expand the total membership of the area; and that you and your prospective officers, if you have any, are actively invested in fostering sustained harmonious relations with the local bodies nearest to you. In short, you face a harder task than if you were simply trying to open a local body in an undeveloped area, but it's not an impossible or hopeless task by any means.