As the Student Association (SA) E-Board campaign season commences, the 14 potential candidates sat down with the Planning, Research and Elections Committee on Monday night to learn about the rules and regulations of elections.

Students will be running for president, executive vice president, vice president for finance, vice president for academic affairs, vice president for multicultural affairs and vice president for programming.

Candidates may begin campaigning on Tuesday, Feb. 24. Candidates may not use SA resources, which includes any SA email addresses and listservs. Candidates may not exceed an $80 campaign budget, and they must turn in all receipts documenting their spending to the elections committee on March 8.

Candidate endorsements can come from any executive board, judicial board or legislative body on campus; however, student groups cannot explicitly tell people to vote for a specific candidate.

Sweeps will be held Tuesday, March 3 at 8 p.m. in the lecture halls. Housing communities will be given the opportunity to learn about the candidates and their platforms, as well as time to ask questions before deciding whom to endorse.

On Election Day, which is March 6, the Information Commons in Glenn G. Bartle Library, the Pods in Science Library and the C4 Pods will all act as voting centers, and flyers must be removed from those areas beforehand. Campaigning is also prohibited within 100 feet of voting centers.

A candidate must collect a minimum of 40 percent of the votes to win. The ballot will be confirmed in Congress on March 9, and results will subsequently be posted. If no candidate in a race earns 40 percent of the votes, the top-] two candidates will compete in a run-off election.