Candidate Declaration Thread

[Gabu]

I am running for President with ilikeverin as my running mate.

I am running for President with Everett as my running mate.

I am running for Vice President as Everett's running mate.

Oh boy.

Well, given that a ticket is considered one unified item on the presidential ballot, I can't see anything whatsoever in established law or in the Constitution that prohibits this sort of thing.  And as far as I can figure, having someone appear on the ballot more than once is not going to make that person more likely to win.

I will say, however, that you should advise your potential voters of Section 11, Clause 1 of the Consolidated Electoral System Reform Act, which reads as follows:

"Where a voter lists only the Presidenitial candidate of a ticket in a Presidential election and this is the sole occurrence of the Presidential candidate on the ballot, then the vote shall be construed to be for the ticket which the Presidential candidate is a member of."

In other words, anyone voting for simply "Lewis Trondheim" will have his or her vote invalidated due to an inability to identify which ticket was meant.  This goes for the other people pulling these shenanigans, as well.

[Gabu]

I am running for Co-President on every ballot

You are welcome to run for a position that does not exist, but any election for this position will not appear on the official ballot until the Senate actually conjures it into being.

[Gabu]

I'll be challenging Lewis again.

You'll have to move first. Neither you nor Lewis is in district 3 after redistricting.

http://www.uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Districts

What's the cutoff date for declaring? Have we passd it?

The cutoff date is ten days before the election, so that would be today.  Any declarations made after today will not be valid for the purposes of appearing on the ballot (but write-in candidacies can still be declared at any time).

[Gabu]

Out of curiosity, what is the filing deadline?

The 10th, IIRC.

No, it's the 12th.  The cutoff is always 10 days before the election, and the election begins the 22nd.

[Gabu]

Rather, I am running as a Write-in candidate (or on-the-ballot candidate) if you still can) for Southeast Regional Senator in the June 2007 elections.

The deadline was June 12, so you'll have to be a write-in.

Not that it really makes that much of a difference around here.

[Gabu]

Gabu, just a note to you:

I think Dr. Cynic withdrew from the race, though I'm not sure if he officially did it in this thread.

Oh, did he?

I tell you, people these days...

[Gabu]

For the record: I'm going to leave the absentee ballot as is given that some people have already voted and I don't want to give them the urge to edit their ballot.  Any votes for Dr. Cynic will just be ignored.

The official non-absentee ballot will have his name removed.