MSU College Democrats and College Republicans could violate a new ASMSU policy when they hand out campaign fliers this week, but officials say no consequences will come to candidates.

The new code states that organizations must seek candidate permission to endorse them, and campaign material cannot contain an endorsement for ASMSU candidates from more than one college.

Last year, almost 40 candidates were disqualified when organizations endorsed them without getting campaign material, such as fliers, approved.

On Monday afternoon, the Democrat and Republican groups went against the undergraduate student government's policy when they issued a joint endorsement of several candidates in the new Reform Alliance. They also did not interview candidates or ask them for endorsement permission.

Several ASMSU candidates have joined the alliance, a nonpartisan group supporting sweeping changes to the assemblies.

"We're doing this independently of them; they're not responsible at all," said Andrew Goetz, College Democrats president and State News columnist. "ASMSU cannot endorse this code against candidates for something we've done independently."

The code was passed, in part, to eliminate slates of candidates, such as the one developed by College Democrats and College Republicans.

"We believe it is our constitutional right to issue these endorsements jointly, publicly and on a single piece of campaign material, without fear of legal repercussions or disqualification," said Tim Phelps, vice chairperson of College Republicans.

Brian Forest, alliance organizer and Academic Assembly College of Arts and Letters representative, expressed concern that candidates might be disqualified from the fliers.

"We don't like the code either, but we want to get elected and then change it," Forest said.

Academic Assembly president Jared English said if a candidate is unconnected with the campaign material, he or she cannot be disqualified.

In all, 29 students are running to fill seats in the 56-member assembly.

Almost 10 candidates were invalidated before elections, English said, mainly because they did not receive enough signatures to run. Students need 30 signatures from people in their colleges to be eligible.

All of the students are running unopposed, except for students in the College of Natural Science and James Madison College.