PSAC 610: Election Information and Candidate Statements

From the office of the Chief Returning Officer of PSAC Local 610

Elections are on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, in Somerville House room 3345 starting at 4:30PM.
Please note, voting will not open until all candidates have presented.

Please click here for the Nominated Candidate Statements.

Elections:

1.    Voting will commence after speeches.
2.    Using visual aids for presentations, such as PowerPoint, are allowed. However, candidates must take full responsibility of using them, and be within their speech time-frame. The speech time-frame is 5 minutes.  Candidates must be ready to use substitute means of presentation or speech in case there is a technical problem.

Campaigning regulations according to the Bylaws section 12.5:

12.5.1  no candidate may engage in mass electronic mailing of any kind, including but not limited to list-serve or recipient lists of more than five (5) persons;

12.5.2  social networking (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, et al.) shall be permitted;

12.5.3  no money is permitted to be spent on any electronic media;

12.5.4  each candidate shall be permitted to distribute a one page mail-out, subject to the limitations outlined by the Chief Returning Officer, that shall be distributed to the membership by the External Communications Chair one week prior to the commencement of the elections;

12.5.5  the campaign period shall begin one week prior to the election;

12.5.6 no campaigning materials shall be circulated once a General Meeting for elections has begun.