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Procedures for the CUE Statewide Officer Elections

The following procedures for the CUE statewide officer elections were adopted by the Elections Committee. Subsequently, clarifications have been made to aid in the interpretation of the committee's intentions.

  1. Candidates statements: Candidate statements shall be organized in the following manner:
    1. Each candidate will have 400 words for their statement of purpose, vision, pitch, etc.
    2. Immediately below this statement, each candidate will be able to list (i.e., not complete sentences or paragraphs) their experience/credentials within CUE (committees, responsibilities, offices held, etc.) including up to 10 items maximum. Candidates may include up to 3 items in relation to experience earned in other organizations at the end of their list if the total list contains no more than 10 items.
    3. Endorsements: Up to 12 endorsements can be listed by each candidate in a separate section below their statement and experience synopsis. Endorsements in this section are defined as being individual members of CUE (with offices or CUE responsibilities listed for identification purposes only). If an endorsement comes from another candidate for a statewide office, the particular office for which they are competing can be identified as well. In any case, no more than three such labels may be used as identifiers for any one endorsement.
    4. Any experience or endorsement that does not fit within the parameters of 1.b) or 1.c) may be included as part of the candidate's statement described in 1.a). The only exception would be endorsements from individuals/organizations which supervise members of the bargaining unit CUE represents.
  2. Candidate Mailings: Each candidate can prepare and send one mailing to the entire statewide membership which the Elections Committee will organize getting out (placing labels and postage on stuffed envelopes or coordinating with our mail house, etc.). Printing costs for this mailing can be no more than $500/candidate. This, along with postage costs, will be paid by CUE. Alternately, the candidate could choose to send this mailing by e-mail with the USPS being used to reach members who are not reachable by e-mail. Which method to use is at the sole discretion of the candidate. The mailing must be received by the Elections Committee or arranged to be delivered to the mail house/print shop) between June 15 (close of nominations) and July 21 and we will endeavor to get it in the mail within one calendar week of receipt.
  3. The CUE website will host a section for the statewide election that will include: an approved timeline, text of mailings and candidates statements and responses, and the e-mail address or substitute contact information for each candidate. Photos will be included to identify candidates barring technical inadequacies. The Elections Committee takes responsibility for posting only information that is confirmed by the candidates themselves.
  4. E-mail addresses and contact information for each candidate will be provided on all communications to the membership which are sent out by the Elections Committee.
  5. On-line real-time chat room discussions will be organized and scheduled for each contested position and their schedule including technical directions on how to participate will be sent to all CUE members for whom CUE has an e-mail address.
  6. A CUE-elections e-mail list will be set up within one week after the close of nominations which is separate from the activist list so that members who are interested can participate in on-going dialogue regarding the various candidates and their positions and qualifications.
  7. Candidates and/or their supporters shall not have access to CUE e-mail lists either by campus or statewide for the purposes of sending out campaign information.
  8. The Elections Committee will organize specific dates when e-mails including statements from each candidate running for a particular contested office shall go out to all members with e-mail. The Elections Committee reserves the right to group more than one office per e-mail at its own discretion. Candidates who do not submit a statement to the Elections Committee by a deadline, depending on the office they are seeking, provided to all the candidates within 48 hours of the close of nominations will forfeit their right to have their materials included in that e-mail. There will be no word limit for these statements, but they will be organized by length so that the shortest statement (as counted in number of words by MS Word) will appear at the top of the message and longer statements will follow within the same message.
  9. Each candidate will, upon request after the deadline to submit candidate statements has passed, receive one free hard copy of CUE statewide membership phone lists.
  10. No campaign fundraising is allowed. Statewide CUE will provide an expense account of $750 for each candidate to use for campaign expenses to cover items not excluded from counting towards the spending limits as listed above. Clarification
  11. Phone bills run up and paid for campaign purposes shall not be counted as money raised or spent as it relates to the spending limits cited above for the purposes of this election. On the other hand, gifts or the renting of phone lines (as in a phone bank) will count towards the spending limit except for (no more than two) phone lines per personal dwelling of volunteer campaigners. Clarification
  12. Similarly, staying over at a private home while visiting other campuses shall not count towards the spending limit although hotel or motel bills will. Clarification 1 The cost of personal meals (but not food or drink for anyone other than the candidate) shall not be counted towards the spending limits either. Clarification 2

Note: Members interested in seeking guidance in our Constitution regarding elections, should either contact their campus CUE representatives or look on the web. Relevant sections include: V (Statewide Structure); VI (Elections), and Appendix A (Elections Code).

The Elections Committee:

Christine Benoit (Riverside)
Jill Ferrarini (Davis)
Julia Baumann (UCLA), Co-Chair
Kathy Kasten (UCLA)
Michael-David Sasson (Berkeley), Chair
Philip Solodkin (UCLA)
Susanna Reyn (UCLA)

http://www.cueunion.org/membership_info/elections/2000elec/elecproc.php        09-January-2009 17:52:20
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