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Article XVII: Nominating Candidates for Election
All potential candidates must complete nominating petitions that
require the signature of at least 25 Earlham students who support
their candidacy for a specified office. If the position they
wish to run for is a shared position in which they are planning
to co-convene or run as a group, all potential candidates must
complete separate nominating petitions.
In addition to completing nominating petitions, all potential
candidates should submit a photograph and a short biography
of themselves detailing
any personal experiences that they believe qualify them for a role
within the Earlham Student Government. Included in this biography
should also be a description of any goals or visions the candidate
has for the Earlham Student Government as well as for the college
community as a whole. This document should be no longer than a
page, and should be displayed with the candidates picture next
to the voting
booth whenever voting is taking place.
Petitions, biographies, and photographs are due to the Earlham
Student Government office by noon five days before the election
and will
not be accepted after this time.
If at noon five days before the election, there are not at least
two petitions for each office, the nomination process is extended
until noon three days before the election for the office and the
election sub-committee should publicize the need for additional
nominations. If after this extension there is still only one candidate
for a particular
office, elections shall proceed as normal.
Write-in candidates are accepted, but only during the initial election
and not in any subsequent election that may follow. Students may
declare a write-in campaign at any time after the election sub-committee
stops accepting petitions by notifying student government. A list
of declared write-in candidates should be posted at the election
booth.
If there are no potential candidates for a given office after the
extended application period, the deadline shall then be extended
one full week and the elections shall take place three days after
this deadline. After this deadline, at least one candidate is needed
for each office for the elections to proceed as normal. If at this
time, still no students have applied for candidacy in a particular
office, elections shall proceed but that office shall be omitted
from the ballot. Upon taking office, the Student Executive Council
shall then appoint, with the consensus approval of all other members
of the Cabinet, the appropriate student(s) to fill all vacant roles.
If no students have applied for candidacy for the SEC, the administrative
advisors to the Earlham Student Government shall use their discretion
to appoint students to the SEC positions. All of these appointees
shall have the same status as if they were designated through normal
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