NASP Campaigning Procedures

Approved by the NASP Delegate Assembly
July, 2006

All campaigning is to be positive. It is important that a candidate only campaign about his/her own qualities and positions. Any reference to an opponent's qualifications or positions is forbidden.

Candidates may contact anyone about the position they are seeking, but they may not use listservs, broadcast emails, or mass mailings to campaign. In an effort to maintain a “level playing field” all announced candidates will have “Leader” access to the leadership tools on the NASP web page.  All candidates may use these tools to find email addresses, postal mailing addresses, and phone numbers.  They may NOT use these tools to develop and send automated broadcast emails to the membership. All individuals acting in their capacity as candidates will agree to use leadership tools for approved campaigning purposes only.  Those who use it for purposes other than campaigning will lose access to leadership tools.  The use of the NASP logo, print or electronic mediums (such as the NASP website, CQ, e-mail or NASP Announce), or NASP staff for campaign purposes is prohibited.

In this day of electronic communications, expenditure of a candidate's own funds or those of other individuals or organizations for mass communication is unnecessary and is discouraged. It is believed that minimal personal expenditures are needed for a state delegate election and no more than $150 should be spent on an officer election.

In an effort to keep the “playing field” as level as possible, it is requested that state associations refrain from endorsing one candidate over another but instead are asked to promote the NASP election process and to encourage their eligible members to vote. This would include facilitating the dissemination of all candidate statements or the link to the NASP website.