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Final Tips and State of Emergency Final Tips 1. Wear formal attire while campaigning and especially during Nom Com, GA II, and Meet the Candidates! 2. Be active at Convention! Make your presence known! 3. Put effort into campaign materials. A well put together poster is helpful, a poorly constructed one can be very disadvantageous 4. Communicate with delegates individually 5. Have confidence in yourself! Putting yourself out there like this is already an amazing feat to accomplish! 6. Have fun! (or at least fake it)! State of Emergency State-of-Emergency and pre-file candidates mostly follow the same election process. The key difference between the two is how you enter the election. 1. When fewer than two candidates pre-file for a specific office, the office enters a State of Emergency 2. The Parliamentarian will announce all States of Emergency during the first General Assembly 3. In that case, delegates from chapters which already have two delegates running can run. Delegates can also run if the office they are running for is currently held by someone from their Chapter 4. State of Emergency candidates are required to give a speech a Nom Com, no matter how many there are State of Emergency is a sort of high risk, high reward process because of the need for quickly writing up speeches and designing campaign materials. However, State of Emergency candidates have been known to win in many cases, so don’t shy away from putting yourself out there! These are a couple of final tips and an explanation of State-of- Emergency. If you have any other questions, please email me at [email protected]. Lucia and previous 1st VP Hanna Zandvakili having fun, an essential part of the process! Delegates listening to Candidate speeches during Nom Com