Quote Originally Posted by bigmilt16
1. When a family member wins election to an office (outside of Questor or Tribune) should I send them to Rome? I remember some EB people stating that office-holders typically did not leave the city, unless a consul was off at war.
Depending on the size of your empire, it is often not possible to do so. For example, one of my Consuls was elected Censor while campagning in the North.

2. Also, if I were to do this, would it be fair to make recruitable equites consulares (possibly though a type 4 govt in italy) to lead my legions?
Your Legions are led by the Consuls, Pro-Consuls, Praetors and Pro-Praetors in Republican times (might also be a Dictator and a Magister Equitum). You should take care of the needed offices to be held.

3. How wise is it to use my own curius election system instead of the scripted elections? There are alot out there (some use cities in italy to signify political position, and other use reef/bodyguard counts.)? I know that political position of characters is a requirement of the reforms, but I hate not having a consul or praetor each turn to lead my big cities and armies.
I use this system (age plus bodyguard plus "connections") to fill up the needed offices when I do not have the appropiate number of Ex-something by trait. For example, the requirement to be a (Pro-)Praetor would be to have the trait "Ex-Aedile" or minimum "Ex-Quaestor". When I do not have enough of these I let my FMs vote for some distinctive characters to fill these offices meanwhile. These are real Pro-Praetor, "instead of a Praetor".