I don’t think outlawing private campaigning would even be legal without a Charter amendment [emoji14] My point was I would prefer it to not happen at all, than for it to be allowable for some and a liability for others. I don’t think people (in general) apply acceptability standards equally.

Not to knock Tsu here, but at the end of the day private campaigning is just people organizing into a bloc to elect someone. When two political parties tried to join together and do that, he and plenty others in TSP didn't like it and said it was corrupt. The APC was getting a lot of new people into politics, and TIL wanted to join forces to get our preferred candidate in the seat through APC's get-out-the-vote abilities. That wasn't acceptable, in large part because I was the one who organized it. But when it's a relative nobody in TSP, who doesn't have the constant aura of corruption around him, it's a case of "well, everybody else can do it too, they just don't."

Elections seem to always have different standards based on who is running, who is campaigning, and who is organizing voting blocs. I don't think regulating private campaigning is going to stop people from reacting negatively when it's somebody unpopular doing it. Or from people wondering if maybe there's something more nefarious going on with all the newbies showing up and listing the same single person on their ballots. So I question whether or not an idea like this would actually make much a difference. If not, then maybe it's not private campaigning we're actually upset about, but rather it's the outcome that private campaigning can lead to. *shrugs* Food for thought.