Each candidate has to get upwards of 160 petition signatures to appear on
the September primary ballot.
State Supreme Justice John Carter affirmed that referee's report that ruled Quiñones off
the September Primary ballot.
In the past week we've linked to a couple of items about State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's lawsuit aimed at keeping his Republican opponent in the 64th Assembly District race off
the September Primary ballot.
Delegates winnowed the field of three candidates seeking to unseat U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to two, voting to advance Bruce Blakeman and David Malpass to
the September primary ballot.
NY1's Bobby Cuza is at the Bronx Board of Elections with Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who announced he has collected some 10,000 signatures — far in excess of the 1,500 requirement, which more or less guarantees he'll be on
the September primary ballot in spite of Democratic leaders efforts to bounce him from the party.
Democrat Gail Goode, a Brooklyn lawyer who wants to run against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand failed to convince party leaders to make similar accommodations that would place her on
the September primary ballot.
Fred Havemeyer's name was stricken last week from
the September primary ballot in Southampton Town after two Suffolk County Board of Elections commissioners denied petitions that would have allowed him to challenge Supervisor Jay Schneiderman for...
The NY Post reported this morning that Teachout planned to begin circulating petitions today in order to get onto
the September primary ballot.
Other candidates can petition their way onto
the September primary ballot during the summer.
Most of Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Zephyr Teachout's more than 45,000 signatures to get on
the September primary ballot came from the New York City area.
But
September primary ballots are coming together.
Not exact matches
He's in a
primary battle with Bruce Blakeman, the GOP designee, and (it appears) former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, who petitioned his way onto the
September ballot and also has the Conservative nod.
«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.
Sources said Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Mondello likes the idea of an independent line because he thinks it might help his hometown US Senate candidate, Bruce Blakeman, in the general election against the Conservatives» nominee, former Rep. Joe DioGuardi (assuming DioGuardi doesn't succeeed in his petitioning effort to get onto the
primary ballot and defeat both Blakeman and David Malpass in
September).
According to Caputo,
Primary Challenge is just one of «dozens» of organizations with which Paladino's campaign is working to gather the signatures necessary to get him on the
September ballot.
Naomi Andrews, who has worked for Shea - Porter for more than a decade and managed two of her past campaigns, became the ninth Democrat to join the
September 11
primary ballot, touting her middle - class background and experience working with Shea - Porter.
A federal judge ruled last year that New York's traditional date for the
primary, the second Tuesday of
September, occurs too late for military absentee
ballots to be processed before the general election.
To get the nomination, you need 25 percent of the vote to get on the
ballot, I think 40 percent to get the official designee or nominee of the party, so you want someone that would have the intention to continue to run and then that person would be on the
ballot in
September in the
primary formally, and then in November in the general election,» Smikle explained.
But he was defeated in a
September primary by Paladino, who petitioned his way onto the
ballot and then went on to lose big in the general election to Democrat Andrew Cuomo.
Blackwell is one of six Democrats hoping to make it to the
primary ballot in
September.
(A congressional candidate seeking to also get on the
ballot for a legislative election might need to start circulating petitions to get onto the
September 11th state
ballot while still campaigning for the June 27th congressional
primary.)
If Spitzer successfully gets on the
ballot, he will face Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer in the citywide Democratic
primary for the comptroller seat in
September.
Of course, even though New Yorkers cast their
ballots on
September 10, just two months from today, it is still relatively early in the election season and polls of low - turnout
primaries are notoriously unreliable.
Zephyr Teachout, the Democratic
primary challenger to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, expects to file more than 40,000 signatures late Thursday to obtain a place on the
ballot for the
September primary voting.
Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham University law professor and activist, announced she's collecting signatures to be on the
September Democratic
primary ballot.
Nevertheless, Teachout and Wu say they have collected 45,000 signatures to achieve
primary ballot access this
September.
Green Party candidate for governor Howie Hawkins on Friday questioned how effective Zephyr Teachout's likely Democratic
primary campaign against Gov. Andrew Cuomo and whether she would even make it on the
September ballot.
All three of its placeholders can be nominated for a judgeship after the
September primary to get them off of the general election
ballot.
But labor leaders have advised Cuomo to not take the WFP's
ballot line in
September anyway after the Sept. 13 party
primary — a move that could hamper the WFP's ability to garner votes in the general election and maintain its
ballot status.
While Sal Albanese, who is also challenging Mayor Bill de Blasio in the Democratic
primary, has been backed by the Reform Party, Dietl and Malliotakis are each attempting to convince their supporters to help them steal the
ballot line by voting on
primary day — Tuesday,
September 12 — using a provision in state election law that effectively allows an open vote.
Marc Fliedner, a left - wing former prosecutor who was knocked out of the running in the Brooklyn Democratic
primary in
September, announced Wednesday that he hopes to unseat Vance, who will appear on the
ballot unopposed on Nov. 7.
As a result, Working Families Party leaders are expected to nominate a «placeholder» candidate — someone not widely known statewide — to appear on the
ballot through the
primary, and replace the person in
September.
Since the bill was not signed by Sunday, the rules will not be in effect for the
September primaries, when all 213 seats in the Legislature are on the
ballot.
If you agree with me that the New York State Legislature is a mess, and that we need new independent economic conservative non-politicians representing us there, then I am the candidate whose name you will want to «write - in» on the
September 13
primary ballot for the Republican nomination for the 99th Assembly District.
In what might be a confusing blizzard of
ballot choices, Saugerties voters will pick candidates for slots on the November
ballot in the Tuesday,
September 12
primaries.
Four years earlier, in
September 2013, approximately 20 percent of registered voters cast
ballots in the
primary.
She's never run for office — her background is in law — but in
September she defeated Democratic designee Joe Nicoletti in the party's
primary, claiming the only spot on the Democratic
ballot in November's general election.
This opportunity to
ballot primary will be held on the same day, Thursday,
September 13.
The Republican Party is running a 62 - year - old widow with zero political experience and no campaign cash against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — and Silver, the Democratic Goliath of New York politics, is suing his novice challenger to get her knocked off the
ballot ahead of the
September primary.
The New York Times Thomas Kaplan reports on the efforts of Governor Andrew Cuomo's campaign to knock challenger Zephyr Teachout, law professor and former Howard Dean internet director, off the
September 9
primary ballot by challenging her New York state residency.
Like in the Republican
primary in
September, it will take absentee
ballots to decide the next Rensselaer County Executive.
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While it's unlikely Nixon would continue to campaign against Cuomo if he defeats her in the Democratic gubernatorial
primary in
September, there's a chance she'd continue to use her WFP
ballot line to go after the incumbent and provide an opening for some yet - to - be-identified strong GOP candidate.
The designation means that if Nixon were to lose the Democratic
primary for governor in
September, she would still be on the statewide
ballot in November.
Saying that the effort will help ensure equal access to the
ballot box on election day, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced an Election Day hotline designed to help ensure that minority - language voters, people with disabilities and all eligible voters are able to cast «an effective
ballot» during the
September 10th
primary election.
To ensure fairness, the Committee did not endorse Town Board candidates and I worked with County GOP Chair Roger Rascoe to guarantee each candidate's place on the
September 12
primary ballot.
Horeseheads mayor: Incumbent Donald Zeigler «almost forgot he was still on the
ballot» after losing the Republican
primary in
September, but is now actively campaigning on the line of Rob Astorino's Reform Party.
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David Spano, son of former County Executive Andrew Spano, has also said he will be on the
ballot in the
September primary.
During that interview, Coughlan expressed confidence that the Independence and Conservative parties, both of which had endorsed him, would stick with him all the way to the general election, guaranteeing him a place on the November
ballot regardless of how he performs in the
September GOP
primary.