OK, the Election Campaign now begins truly in earnest.
The results of the hustings round were that Green Arda, MACHO, MEAD, and the WTA are all major parties in the election, with the SSS as a minor party.
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FOR VOTERS:
This is your chance to really hammer the politicians on what YOUR constituency wants. They've argued with one another a fair bit, now it's a case of them having to answer lots of questions from around Middle-earth (though I imagine we'll still argue amongst ourselves a fair bit)...
FOR CANDIDATES:
From HanSolo's SSS, I need your choices of where to stand. You get to either pick five constituences where you think you'll do best, or one broad region (the regions as shown in the main thread). You should ideally declare these as soon as possible so people know where they can vote for you!
From everyone, I need details of your election operation. You must publicly declare your leader's seat and your deputy leader's seat; you will get decent sized boosts in both of these. You can also "deploy" four other smaller Get Out the Vote operations, which you do not have to publicly reveal, though you can do (if you want to keep them secret, message me with your choices). You can only put one GOTV operation in a constituency, but you can double them up with a leader's seat, and as it's STV your leader and deputy leader can stand in the same seat.
Also, obviously, there are questions to be answered. Please try and stick to the questions asked, in this round. Go go go!
This round continues until April 25 or thereabouts (I've slipped the time forward a bit from the original timetable), at which point people can start sending in voting choices.
Best of luck!