Local chapters should select candidates for local electorates. List candidates should be chosen by the full membership. Ranking should be done by the full membership by approval voting.

A strategy is difficult to formulate in the current situation. Any enthusiasm for activity in this direction is being discouraged.

I would not be able to support a local candidate that has been selected by the executive.

The best use of the election process would be to concentrate on gaining new members. This should be concentrated on forming local parties (not chapters) that would be autonomous and deciding to join the national party when they feel they are ready and the national party is functional.

Another way would be to join with other allied micro-parties to campaign and support a joint candidate

I agree with @andrewreitemeyer that we need to focus what energy we have on building local organisations around campaigns for electorate candidates, and using this to grow our membership.

At this stage, I don't think there's any point putting forward a party list. The most likely outcome is that we would get an embarrassingly small vote, because most people who would consider voting for us will vote for the Internet Party instead. In the unlikely event we did get a decent vote (1-2%), IP voters would be grumpy with us for splitting the geek vote, especially if the IP fell just short of 5%. In other words, we're nowhere near organised enough to put on a decent campaign for the Party vote, and we'd only alienated potential supporters if we tried.

After this election, we can start planning for 2017, including figuring out where we stand in relation to the IP, and talking to other micro-parties about potential co-operation.