Imagine the Electoral Act as a carefully tended garden: Section 77 plants the solemn bedrock of membership rolls, insisting that parties keep a living, digital-heralded catalogue of their adherents and lay it before the Commission twenty-one days before the rites of nomination. Section 84(2) then offers two paths through the garden to the flower of candidacy: the open-air democracy of direct primaries or the cultivated intimacy of consensus.