Running for Youth Officer is an exciting opportunity to share your ideas, represent your peers, and help shape the future of RPAP. All candidates are expected to run fair, respectful, and positive campaigns that reflect RPAP’s values.
General Campaign Rules
All candidates must meet the requirements outlined in the Youth Officer Elections information, including required forms, previous RPAP participation, and staff approval.
Campaigning must remain respectful, kind, and inclusive. Negative comments, bullying, or disrespectful behavior toward another candidate, voter, or RPAP staff member will not be tolerated.
Campaigning should be student-led. Parents and families may provide support but should not campaign on behalf of a candidate.
Candidates may share their platform, ideas, and goals but may not make promises that RPAP cannot guarantee.
All campaign materials and messaging must be appropriate for all ages and reflect RPAP’s mission, values, and expectations.
Candidates may not offer gifts, money, food, prizes, or other incentives in exchange for votes.
Candidates should focus on why they would make a strong Youth Officer, rather than why someone else should not be elected.
Social Media Guidelines
Campaigning on social media is permitted during the official campaign period.
Posts should be positive, respectful, and focused on the candidate's own ideas, experience, goals, and qualifications.
Candidates may not post negative comments, jokes, rumors, or attacks about other candidates.
Candidates should not encourage friends, family members, or supporters to negatively comment on or target another candidate.
Campaign content must be appropriate for all ages and follow RPAP's normal social media and participant expectations.
Candidates are responsible for the content they personally post or share as part of their campaign.
RPAP reserves the right to request that inappropriate or rule-breaking campaign content be removed.
Approved Campaign Flyer Restrictions & Expectations
Each candidate may create one official campaign flyer to promote their candidacy.
Before the flyer is posted, printed, distributed, or shared publicly, it must be submitted to and approved by RPAP staff.
Campaign flyers should include:
Candidate's name
A photo of the candidate
A short statement, slogan, or campaign platform
Up to three key goals or ideas
Flyers may not include personal attacks, negative statements about another candidate, inappropriate images or language, misleading information, promises that RPAP has not authorized, outside business advertisements, or unrelated promotional material.
Once approved, the flyer may not be altered without receiving additional approval from RPAP. Approved flyers may be shared digitally, on social media, through text/email, or displayed in locations approved by RPAP. Candidates must receive permission before placing flyers in businesses, schools, community buildings, or other public locations.
Campaign Conduct & Enforcement
Being a Youth Officer means being a role model before the election even begins. Candidates are expected to demonstrate good judgment, kindness, responsibility, and respect throughout the entire election process.
RPAP staff reserves the right to approve, edit, reject, or request the removal of campaign materials that do not follow these expectations. Depending on the severity or frequency of a violation, consequences may include a warning, removal of campaign materials, restrictions on campaigning, or disqualification from the Youth Officer election.
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