Are slates of candidates allowed?
A. While the ballot will simply list individual candidates and have no provision for identifying slates, Listener-Sponsor candidates may certainly endorse other Listener-Sponsor candidates and form slates. Candidates may identify themselves with a slate if they wish in their candidate statement mailed with the ballots and available on-line. Some members, familiar with typical winner-take-all elections have expressed concerns about slates being undesirable. However, slates are not problematic nor something to fret about, because we are using a proportional voting system, rather than a winner-take-all system. In fact, slates may be beneficial for informing voters in an election could possibly have over 50 candidates. In ranking a large number of candidates, voters may be helped by understanding which candidates have similar views or platforms. The fact that we are not using a winner-take-all voting system means that NO slate can possibly make a sweep of the election, and minority voices
