e two possible modes of operation for a leader election module:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li><p><strong>Static</strong> — a system administrator manually configures a peer in an organization to
be the leader.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Dynamic</strong> — peers execute a leader election procedure to select one peer in an
organization to become leader.</p></li>
</ol>
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