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Election FAQs
Posted by ASUCH on Feb 7, 2004, 21:51
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ASUCH Campaigning and Election FAQS
April 1, 2003 update
The following specific questions have been posed in the past.
- Are e-mail solicitations allowed? Either mass mail by candidate or from organizations?
- The Election Committee will allow each candidate to send a one page campaign statement through the ASUCH e-mail to the entire student body. Any other e-mail campaigning mus t be accomplished through STRICTLY PRIVATE LISTS. If a candidate uses a student organization e-mail list, or any part of the list, they must receive written permission from an authorized officer of the organization. That written permission must be provided to the election committee before the sending of the e-mail. If the only way you have access to an e-mail address is because it is part of a larger list, and the e-mail was not given to you for strictly personal use by the specific individual, any use of those e-mail addresses, by the candidate or anyone acting on their behalf, require permission from the appropriate student organization. The election committee reserves the right to verify any such requests prior to the sending of the e-mail solicitations (The page limit is judged by a 8 xl1 page, with one inch margins, at 10-point Times New Roman type, single spaced.)
- May student organizations endorse candidates?
- May they use e-mail and flyers to communicate the endorsement?
- Student organizations may endorse candidates and send that endorsement to their members by SIC drop and/ or e-mail. However, they cannot SIC drop or e-mail students who are not members of their organization. A candidate may, with an endorsing groups approval, advertise their endorsement in their groups listserv or e-mail list or in one or both of their SIC drop flyers.
May I run for any old office that doesn't have a named candidate?
- All candidates must indicate the office they wish to run for on their candidate statements. These are due in the ASUCH office a few weeks before the election is held. Candidates may run for multiple positions if they so desire, but they must state the offices for which they wish to compete.
- May buttons/stickers/leaflets be used? What about in the voting area?
- Buttons, stickers, or personally delivered leaflets may be used. However, campaigners and candidates may not be present in the 198 Lobby or within any other no-campaigning area during balloting times. The candidates are responsible for ensuring that their supporters abide by these rules.
- May non-candidates send letters, sic drop, email?
- Individual students may not SIC drop any unofficial campaign material, nor may he or she send unsolicited bulk e-mails. They may, however, send e-mails to their private lists or hand out leaflets in campaigning areas. They may also send letters via the mail. The prohibition against individual students SIC dropping should not be read to include campaign volunteers who SIC drop one or both of a candidate's official SIC drops on his or her behalf.
- May, say, Moot Court department chairs endorse candidates?
- University staff and faculty are discouraged from actively endorsing one particular candidate and are asked to refrain from doing so. Candidates shall not make any such request of a member of the administration or faculty.
- When may candidates start campaigning?
- Candidates may start campaigning once their candidate statements are filed.
- May candidates have a list of student names?
- No list of student names will be provided to any candidate.
- May I campaign in the classroom if the professor gives permission?
- No candidate, nor anyone else, may campaign in a classroom, during class time.
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