Most of the proposed changes are unnecessary, or even worse than what's in use now. The most important public elections have candidates as their alternatives. Some people say "alternatives". Candidates is a little shorter. There's no compelling reason to replace "candidate", which, unlike "alternative" or "option" usually refers to an election choice. "Options" could be construed to refer to options for doing a count or balloting in various different ways.
As for gender-free words, the ones you suggest don't have any clear derivation from other words, and there are unnecessarily many of them.
Here's something better:
s/he
hir replaces him, her, his, her.
hirs
hirself
Mike Ossipoff
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