diff --git a/tla/consensus/ccfraft.tla b/tla/consensus/ccfraft.tla
index bea8c646f3cb..cccc3e6744d9 100644
--- a/tla/consensus/ccfraft.tla
+++ b/tla/consensus/ccfraft.tla
@@ -504,8 +504,8 @@ InitReconfigurationVars ==
     \* https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/main/operations/ledger_snapshot.html#join-or-recover-from-snapshot) or some stale configuration
     \* such as the initial configuration. A node's configuration is *never* "empty", i.e., the equivalent of configuration[node] = {} here. 
     \* For simplicity, the set of servers/nodes all have the same initial configuration at startup.
-    /\ \E c \in SUBSET Servers \ {{}}:
-        configurations = [i \in Servers |-> [ j \in {0} |-> c ] ]
+    /\ \E s \in Servers:
+        configurations = [i \in Servers |-> 0 :> {s} ]
 
 InitMessagesVars ==
     /\ Network!InitMessageVar