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State Republican Chairman Ed Cox briefly acknowledged today that creating a third -
party ballot line for the fall is something that is being discussed, but his congressional hopeful son, Christopher, was mum about whether he would run on such a line.
Republicans in the state even created a new «Stop Common Core»
party ballot line for the November election.
The move comes at a time when Bloomberg is expected to seek the city's Independence
Party ballot line for his re-election bid.
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano lost one of his last shots at a minor
party ballot line for re-election when a potential stand - in candidate collected too few signatures to run on the Independence Party line, election officials said.
Not exact matches
Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing
party lines to cast their
ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of
party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.
Rep. Arcuri's name will appear on just the Democratic
ballot unless he's successful in petitioning
for a third
party line.
Often, a third
party ballot line provides the margin of victory
for candidates in close elections.
The state Conservative
Party has given its nod to Elise Stefanik, one of two Republicans contenders (as of today) vying
for the North Country House seat of retiring Democratic Rep. Bill Owens, ensuring her a
ballot line in the November general election regardless of the outcome of the June GOP primary.
Petitioning
for ballot line parties begins June 8.
Andrew Cuomo, then running
for governor in 2010, at the last minute agreed to run on the WFP's
ballot line, thus saving them from spiraling into the political black hole that swallowed up the now - defunct Liberal
Party.
The Reform
Party ballot line on Wednesday endorsed Republican Julie Killian in the special election
for the 37th Senate district.
State Conservative
Party Chairman Mike Long believes Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino should be given «serious consideration» about a potential run for governor on the influential third party's ballot
Party Chairman Mike Long believes Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino should be given «serious consideration» about a potential run
for governor on the influential third
party's ballot
party's
ballot line.
Lazio on the Conservative
ballot creates the awful choice
for Conservatives of voting
for Paladino to defeat Cuomo versus voting the Conservative
line to give the
party its needed 50,000 votes thereby helping Cuomo by taking away a vote from Paladino, the only candidate who can beat Cuomo.
«In preparation
for the upcoming September primaries
for the Republican and Conservative
Party ballot lines, our Congressional campaign team is shifting some personnel,» Cox stated.
This year, Niccoli in a statement said her daughter will do so again and faulted Amedore
for not going far enough in scaling back the standards, despite having run in 2014 on the
ballot line Stop Common Core (former by Republican gubernatorial nominee Rob Astorino, the
line was renamed the «Reform
Party» after the election).
Paychex billionaire Tom Golisano doesn't appear to like the idea of Democratic AG Andrew Cuomo running on the
ballot line of the state Independence
Party established and nurtured by his three unsuccessful self - funded campaigns
for governor.
Republican Bob Antonacci became the first candidate to secure a third -
party ballot line in the race
for the 50th Senate District seat left open by the retirement of Sen. John DeFrancisco.
The Wilson Pakula threshold
for anyone not enrolled in the
party who wants to run on the
line, as you'll recall, is just over 50 percent of the weighted convention vote — more than twice the 25 percent necessary
for party members to get onto the
ballot.
In the wake of the latest bombshell corruption scandal, which netted two New York City GOP officials from Queens and the Bronx, other
party leaders were quick to volunteer that knew absolutely nothing about the scheme to essentially buy a GOP
ballot line in the NYC mayor's race
for Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith.
The
party needs to receive at lest 50,000 votes on its
line in the race
for governor in order to maintain
ballot status
for the next four years.
Republican Bob Antonacci, the Onondaga County comptroller, moved a step closer to locking up the Conservative
Party ballot line in the race
for the New York State Senate seat left open by the retirement of John DeFrancisco.
Mayor Bill de Blasio should be denied a place on the Working Families
Party ballot line in November, according to a planned legal challenge that questions the party's process for selecting candid
Party ballot line in November, according to a planned legal challenge that questions the
party's process for selecting candid
party's process
for selecting candidates.
Cuomo, and running mate Kathy Hochul have created a «Women's Equality
Party»
ballot line for November, and they're now pushing
for all candidates
for state office to sign a pledge in support of their «women's equality agenda.»
Faced with losing the
ballot line to a challenger who tapped into resentment over his estate tax cuts, charter - school championing and failure to deliver campaign finance reform, Governor Andrew Cuomo won the
party's designation only after promising to fight
for Democratic control of the state Senate and deliver a progressive policy wish list.
Sean Stratton
for State Assembly, District 18 Campaign Details 5th / 5
for two seats; 1007, 1.07 % http://www.njelections.org/2017-results/2017-unofficial-general-election-results-general-assembly.pdf Onel Martinez
for State Assembly, District 22 5th / 6
for two seats; 81,076 votes, 1.10 % http://www.njelections.org/2017-results/2017-unofficial-general-election-results-general-assembly.pdf Green
Party member on
ballot under «Remember Those Forgotten»
ballot line
The WFP's small pro-Cuomo faction tried and failed to both delay the nod
for a month and keep the
party's
ballot line blank, but eventually the committee overwhelmingly voted 91.5 percent to back the «Sex and the City» star and activist.
They are accused of trying to fix this year's mayoral
ballot, allegedly exchanging thousands of dollars in cash, so - called payoffs
for Republican
party officials to agree to put Smith, a Democrat, on the GOP
line.
Along with Virgil Goode, and their Constitution
Party allies, the Indy Greens collected 14,350 signatures
for former congressman Goode to file
for the
ballot line for President in Virginia.
Another trouble spot
for Cuomo will be repealing the Wilson Pakula law of 1947, a measure that allows
party bosses to allow non-
party members to run on their
ballot lines.
David F Ochmanowicz Jr
for Quakertown School Board, Bucks County Campaign Details 2nd / 3
for two seats; 1279 votes, 28.5 % ELECTED http://www.buckscountyvotes.org/ Green
Party member received 260 votes on Green
Party ballot line and 1019 on Democratic
Party ballot line.
Lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Kathy Hochul (D) and supporters of Gov. Cuomo gathered signatures
for a Women's Equality
Party line, thereby increasing the Democratic ticket's haul of
ballot lines to four.
ALBANY — New York City Public Advocate Letitia James won't seek the
ballot line of the liberal Working Families
Party in her campaign
for New York attorney general, a spokeswoman confirmed.
Andrew Frascarelli
for Representative Town Meeting, District 1, Waterford 1st / 8
for five seats; 415 votes ELECTED http://www.waterfordct.org/sites/waterfordct/files/u516/201711081550.pdf Received 162 votes on Green
Party ballot line, 253 on Democratic
ballot line.
Hawkins said that candidates
for public office in New York should run on only one
line, rather than cluttering up the
ballot with fake third
parties and independent
lines whose main function is patronage and vote - buying.
The Working Families
Party on Saturday backed a placeholder
for attorney general, while also insisting its
ballot line this fall would be open to either Tish James or Zephyr Teachout to run
for the post.
Sliwa's celebrity power in New York City could attract the 50,000 votes needed to give the Reform
Party an automatic
line on
ballots for the next four years, ending the expensive and difficult effort to securing thousands of signatures
for petitions to be placed on
ballots statewide.
Sen. Roy McDonald's decision not to campaign on the Independence
Party line through November is a particular blow to Republican same - sex marriage supporters, who just this morning released a poll paid for by New York Unity PAC that found the senator could have won the general election even as a minor party candidate with a single ballot
Party line through November is a particular blow to Republican same - sex marriage supporters, who just this morning released a poll paid
for by New York Unity PAC that found the senator could have won the general election even as a minor
party candidate with a single ballot
party candidate with a single
ballot line.
Still, the Conservative
Party ballot line has become essential
for any statewide Republican candidate's victory.
De Blasio should be denied a place on the Working Families
Party ballot line in November, according to a planned legal challenge by the Reform Party that questions the party's process for selecting candid
Party ballot line in November, according to a planned legal challenge by the Reform
Party that questions the party's process for selecting candid
Party that questions the
party's process for selecting candid
party's process
for selecting candidates.
McGuire said the NYCF PAC did not get involved in the Grisanti race during the primary, but will now engage on behalf of «pro-family candidate» Chuck Swanick, the former Erie County legislator who lost his primary bid
for the Democratic
line to attorney Mike Amodeo, but remains on the November
ballot on the Conservative
Party line.
Roger «Socks» Stone is a master of this and he could have a winner in The Knight in Shining Money Carl Paladino as
for Davis if she makes it to the
ballot and then gets the 50,000 votes you need to become a
party and have a
ballot line he has another winner.
If the
party fails to win at least 50,000 votes
for its gubernatorial contenders on its
ballot line, it will both its
line and its official status — and basically all but cease to exist.
With McDonald running solely on the Independence
ballot line, he receives 45 percent of the vote, compared to 28 percent of the vote
for Marchione, who would have the GOP and Conservative
Party lines.
According to WFP spokesman (
for one more day) Dan Levitan, it's now a «near certainty» that the labor - backed
party has managed to improve its
ballot status, jumping to Row D, while the Conservatives jumped to Row C and the Indys fell two
lines to the WFP's old Row E.
So on one hand we have an incredibly detailed litany of rehashed innuendo regarding the minutiae of canvassing operations and supposed irregularities at the level of timesheets, with the implication that someone is cheating; while on the other hand we have a blithely cynical sketch of how two billionaires own a political
party, with one of them forthrightly buying its
ballot line for himself.
The poll, conducted
for Hochul's campaign by Global Strategy Group, shows Corwin leading Hochul just 31 percent to 30 percent, with Jack Davis, an independent candidate running on the Tea
Party ballot line, picking up 26 percent.
For a
party to receive automatic
ballot access in New York, a gubernatorial candidate must receive at least 50,000 votes on its
line.
Seeber, a Republican, on Thursday filed an «Opportunity to
Ballot» petition to conduct a write in primary for the Women's Equality Party ballot
Ballot» petition to conduct a write in primary
for the Women's Equality
Party ballotballot line.
The pragmatists in the WFP argue the
party needs to run as high a profile a candidate
for governor as possible to ensure receiving 50,000 votes in that race this fall and preserving its
ballot line for another four years.