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1. The first section shall contain instructions on how to fill out the ballot.

2. The second section shall contain a set of demographic questions devised by the Commission. Answering these questions shall be optional, and their answers shall not affect the validity of the ballot.

3. The next sections shall list the candidates, slates, Special Fee requests, General Fee issues, and ballot measures in the following order: Constitutional Amendments, Referenda, Special Fee requests, General Fee issues, Council of Presidents, Student Conduct Legislative Council, Senate, and the Senior Class Presidents.
   1. No candidate, slate, Special Fee request, or ballot measure for the Spring quarter general election shall appear on the ballot unless the appropriate declaration of intent and any necessary petitions have been filed by 4:00 p.m. the Friday before Dead Week during Winter quarter. The Commission shall have the authority to extend this deadline, but to no later than the last day of Winter quarter.

   2. For other elections the declaration of intent and any necessary petitions must be filed by 4:00 p.m. one week before the election, or at a time specified by the Commission, whichever is sooner. The Commission shall have the authority to extend this deadline.

   3. A Special Fee request whose sponsor has not completed all the requirements specified in the Constitution, these By-Laws, and the Special Charge of the Commission for placement and appearance on the ballot by the deadline indicated above shall appear on the Spring quarter election ballot only if all of the following conditions are satisfied:
      1. The Senate authorizes such an appearance by approving a resolution specifying the extenuating circumstances by a two-thirds vote, and the Council of Presidents approves this resolution.

      2. The student organization requesting the Special Fee agrees to pay for all costs associated with its appearance on the ballot, such costs to be determined by the Commission with the approval of the Financial Manager.

   4. If a sponsor submits a petition to place on the ballot a ballot measure after the deadline indicated above, then the Commission may authorize it to appear on the ballot.

   5. The Commission shall verify the eligibility of each candidate and slate, and of each Special Fee request and ballot measure and their associated sponsors, before authorizing their appearance on the ballot.

4. For each candidate, slate, Special Fee request, and ballot measure, the following information shall be made available on the ballot.
   1. Candidates shall be listed by name.

      A sufficient number of spaces shall be designated for write-in candidates.

      The name of one voluntary student organization may appear next to a candidate's name on the ballot. This is subject to the following provisions:

      1. The candidate must specify a desire to the Elections Commission to be affiliated on the ballot with a specific voluntary student organization. The chief executive officer of that voluntary student organization must similarly inform the Elections Commission that it wishes to endorse the candidate.

      2. Only one affiliation per candidate will be listed on the ballot.

      3. The name of the voluntary student organization must be relatively short and free from confusion. The Elections Commissioner shall have the authority to abbreviate the organization's name.

      4. Candidates without affiliation shall either be listed as independent on the ballot or no affiliation shall be indicated by leaving the field blank.

   2. Slates shall be listed by the name of the slate, with the names of the members of each slate included in parenthesis. A sufficient number of spaces shall be designated for write-in slates in the Council of Presidents race. These spaces shall be sufficient in number and format to allow voters to write in either the name of the write-in slate or the names of the individual members of the slate.

   3. Special Fee requests shall be listed by the name of the appropriate student organization, with the amount requested included in parenthesis.

   4. Setting the amount of each existing General Fee must be listed in the following manner:
      1. The title of the General Fee.

      2. The options for new Fee amounts, listed in order from the greatest increase to the greatest decrease. Each option must list first the corresponding total amount to which the Fee would be changed, then in parentheses the percentage change this represents.

   5. Proposals for creating a new General Fee must be listed as ``To Create the <Fee Title> General Fee (<Base Amount>)''. Proposals to change the base amount of an existing General Fee must be listed as ``To (increase/decrease) the <Fee Title> General Fee by <Change in Base Amount>''. Proposals to abolish an existing General Fee must be listed as ``To Abolish the <Fee Title> General Fee''. Linked proposals must be listed by the title assigned by the Senate.

   6. Ballot measures shall be listed by the title of the measure.

5. Sub-classes
   1. For each class of ballots, a number of sub-classes shall be generated which shall be equal to the smallest integer greater than or equal to the number of all the candidates for Undergraduate Senate appearing on the ballot divided by ten.

   2. On the ballots of the first sub-class all candidates, slates, and Special Fee requests shall be listed in alphabetical order.

   3. On the ballots of each succeeding sub-class, all candidates, slates, and Special Fee requests shall be listed in the same order as that of the immediately previous sub-class, except that for each electoral race and for the Special Fee requests collectively, the ``n'' candidates, slates, or Special Fee requests appearing first on the ballots of the immediately previous sub-class shall appear at the bottom of the list of candidates in this succeeding sub-class, where ``n'' equals the smallest integer greater than or equal to the number of candidates or slates in that race, or the number of Special Fee requests, divided by the total number of sub-classes that exist.

   4. The total number of ballots printed for each class shall be apportioned as equally as possible among their subclasses.

   5. The ballots shall be marked to distinguish the appropriate class and sub-class in order to facilitate the tallying of the ballots.

6. All other ballot measures shall be listed in alphabetical order on all ballots.

7. The Commission shall supply connective material to make the ballot easy to read and use.