• Declared Campaigns shall be permitted to promote and advertise their campaign to the public. All limits and boundaries must be equally applied to all candidates.

• Petitioning requirements shall be:

  • • Four-hundred (400) valid signatures for a President and Vice Presidential ticket

    • One-hundred (100) valid signatures for each candidate running for Student Senate

    • One-hundred (100) valid signatures for each candidate running for Main and/or Alternate USS Delegates

    • One-hundred (100) valid signatures for each candidate running for Main and/or Alternate Student Disciplinarians 

    • Petitioning to run a referendum requires ten percent (10%) of all undergraduate students

• Only Brooklyn College undergraduate students shall be allowed to sign petitions and vote in USG elections, and may sign an unlimited number of petitions for tickets, candidates, and referenda. All signatures must be accompanied by the EMPLID.

• Declared Campaigns shall submit their petitions within the allotted petitioning period and upon submission shall receive a receipt from the Commissioner. The receipt shall contain the following information: Campaign name, number of signatures submitted, date and time of submission, signatures of Declared Sponsors or Declared Candidates.

• The Commissioner shall make copies of each receipt; the original being kept by the Commissioner, and one copy being kept by the Declared Campaign. When receiving returned petitions, the Commissioner shall only accept petitions that have the requisite number of signatures and accompanying EMPLIDs. This initial count does not determine validity or invalidity of signatures.

• The Commissioner shall submit the petitions of each Declared Campaign to Brooklyn College Student Activities for validation by validators.

The candidate petition form is linked here: https://go.bcstudentgov.org/Petition

Accepted petitions will undergo a validation process during which the validity of each signature on the petition will be determined. Recall that only Brooklyn College undergraduate students shall be allowed to sign petitions and vote in USG elections. 

• Declared Campaigns that have submitted petitions with the requisite amount of valid signatures will receive a notification of validation.

• Upon being notified of validation, a Declared Campaign shall become a “Validated Campaign”.

• Upon validation of a campaign, Declared Candidates shall become “Validated Candidates”, Declared Sponsors shall become “Validated Sponsors”.