Use & Purpose
We as the Returning Officer team have created this page for use by candidates, campaign teams, and campus media to ensure efficient running of the elections, and to alow campaigns clarity over the course of the Officer Elections process. All relevant queries requiring clarification received by the Returning Officer team will be answered here for the benefit of all candidates and campaigns.
29 January - Campaign Team and Coordination
We've received a question about if it is appropriate to be creating a campaign team at this stage (before nominations have closed). Candidates are welcome to seek campaign team members and coordinate with their campaign teams. All activity must comply with the rules on early campaigning and no public campaigning is to take place before the official campaign period begins. If candidates are recruiting too widely, too assertively, or too openly, we may be forced to rule that campaign team recruitment and coordination is, in effect, serving the purpose of campaigning. We recommend you steer clear from any campaign team coordination being perceived as campainging.
As a reminder of some of the items in the rules, there is no cap on the number of people who can be part of your campaign team, candidates will be held responsible for the actions of members of their campaign teams, and an individual may be ruled to be operating on a candidate's behalf if it can be reasonably established even without presense in campaign team group chats, mailing lists, or other campaign infrastructure.
DRO Sam
29 January - Manifesto Videos
We've received a question about if videos can be submitted as a part of manifestos. Videos can be submitted as part of a candidates manifesto in addition to the 500-word written manifesto. Videos do not replace the written manifesto and should be treated as supplementary content.
DRO Sam
29 January - External Guidance (and Endorsements)
We received a question about if candidates may seek guidance from entities and individuals not a part of the electorate at Bath and / or not a part of the University of Bath campus community. Candidates are permitted to seek advice or guidance from individuals or entities.
As a reminder of the rules, candidates may not receive or display public endorsements or receive campaign support from external organisations or groups.
DRO Sam