A by-election is occurring in the seat of Lingiari

Timeline

Candidate submission deadline: Sunday 21st January 6pm

Campaigning: Monday 22nd January - Friday 26th January (Inclusive)

How to Vote card submission deadline: Thursday 25th January 11:59pm

Election Day (Results Calculated): Saturday 27th January

Results Announced: Saturday 27th January OR Sunday 28th January

All times are in Canberra time. There will be polls issued before the campaign and throughout the campaign.

Campaigning

Campaigning will take palace on r/AusSimCampaigning

Endorsements

Endorsements are for parties to encourage voters to vote for another candidate. To endorse a candidate, you will need to make a campaign post endorsing them. You may change your endorsement at any time; however, this will diminish the effectiveness severely.

How to Vote Cards

All candidates and parties will be able to submit a How to Vote (HTV) card after the official announcement of candidates. HTV cards will instruct voters how to distribute their preferences. 75% of a candidate’s voters will follow the HTV card.

HTV cards must be submitted to the EC using a form that will be provided after the official announcement of candidates.

HTV cards will be due at midnight on Thursday 25th January and revealed by the Electoral Commission on Friday 26th January. You will not be permitted to change your How to Vote Cards after they have been revealed.

Post Limits

• Candidates will have four posts they can use on any day of the campaign. However, posting all your posts on one day will diminish the effectiveness.
• Parties will get one post in each by-election that cannot be posted by their candidate. For parties not contesting, this is the post they can use for their endorsement.

Post Titles

Normal post title rules apply. All posts must have a correctly formatted title to make it easier for readers, markers and for automatic flairs:

[Melbourne - 23rd - Post 3] Anacornda advocates for the abolition of Income Tax in the CBD [Hotham - 24th - Post 4] Anacornda visits a random town to campaign against Climate Change [Hotham - (your party) Party Post] Random party leader makes a stop in Hotham

Each post is required to be labelled with the date as shown above.

Candidate submission

Due to minimal preparation time, there is no google form for submissions. Instead can Party Leaders/Independents DM me on here or discord (.anacornda12) to submit their candidate.