Sentences with phrase «access to the ballot not»

However, Tracey will gain access to the ballot not through the caucus, but through a petitioning process currently underway.)

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Not surprisingly, the Working Families Party is opposed to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call to end Wilson - Pakula, which allows party leaders to grant waivers for ballot access to non-party candidates.

The minor party does not have official party status and, according to the ADE, has had problems with ballot access in the past.

It's also not surprising that the attempt failed miserably, not even coming close to getting ballot access across the country.

According to Ballot Access News, the Kansas Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case this week on whether or not the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate can withdraw his name from the November bBallot Access News, the Kansas Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case this week on whether or not the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate can withdraw his name from the November ballotballot.

«In a time when we have politicians across the country working overtime to restrict the right to vote, New York must expand and not limit access to the ballot.

However, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that certain ballot access requirements, such as filing fees and submitting a certain number of valid petition signatures do not constitute additional qualifications and thus few Constitutional restrictions exist as to how harsh ballot access laws can be.

By the evening of January 1, 2013, the December 1, 2012 print edition of Ballot Access News will probably be posted here, and even though normally past print issues are not updated, in this case, that issue will be updated to include the vote for president by state for each candidate.

Initially the party had voted not to field a presidential candidate in 1992, but it was later found that the party would need to get at least half a percent of the vote in New Mexico in order to maintain its ballot access in that state.

(Unlike with the WFP line, she would not need permission from party leaders to run because she is a registered Democrat, so the threshold to ballot access — while still daunting — is slightly lower).

McMahon says a vote against the ballot proposal does not mean a vote against giving kids access to pre K and computer tablets.

The Journal News, of Westchester County, reported on its Web site that a polling station in Hartsdale opened about two hours late because election workers couldn't get access to locked - up ballots.

The U.S. District Court Judge decision missed the main point of the lawsuit, that the unfavorable Georgia ballot access precedents do not relate to presidential elections.

Candidates who do not seek nomination via the assembly process may petition for direct access to the primary ballot.

However, the Governor doesn't seem to understand that the U.S. Constitution requires all states to provide ballot access procedures for independent candidates, separately and distinct from members of political parties.

Some state parties which failed to achieve ballot access in 2004 have not run a single candidate for any office in the last eight years.

On September 7, U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marbley issued a preliminary injunction, ordering the state not to enforce the ballot access law passed earlier this year by the legislature.

It has two ballot access improvements: (1) it moves the independent candidate petition deadline (for office other than President) from March to May; (2) it makes it clear that the law, barring independent candidates from the ballot if they had too close an association with any political party, doesn't apply to actions taken outside Montana.

«We will not be complying with this request and I encourage the Election Commission to work on issues of vital importance to voters, including ballot access, rather than focus on debunked theories of voter fraud.»

The December conference is not expected to nominate a presidential ticket, but may produce interim candidates for the purpose of gaining ballot access.

That will be the last chance for ballot access reform to pass in time for the 2012 election, because in 2012, the legislature won't convene until May.

Aware that the Clinton campaign is already portrayed as dictating terms to the DNC, Baker raised the concern about making ballot access in primary states a criteria for getting on stage: If Sanders were locked out because of potential trouble qualifying in New Hampshire (given that he's not a registered Democrat), Baker was worried this would be seen as Clinton keeping him out.

As a non-practicing degreed journalist who has not really been in politics until volunteering in 2004 for the Nader ballot access... I realize that the personal meeting has tremendous impact, but it also seems the issues the seem pressing to the public and the media's presentation seems to be the final result.

Actually, there are only nine states that do not permit ballot access work for a new party to begin Read more»

To quote Wikipedia: «The issue of who are the true officers of the AIP has not been decided in the ballot access court case.

Or, in many states, they do not meet petition requirements in which a certain number of voters must sign a petition for a third party or independent candidate to gain ballot access.

The ballot line, created by state Democrats and Cuomo's re-election campaign to promote the 10 - point women's agenda, does not have many down - ballot candidates gaining access after their petitions were tossed.

According to Garland Favorito, one of Georgia's leading ballot access activists, HB 949 is not dead, and will receive a vote on the House floor on Monday, March 5.

It has two ballot access improvements: (1) it moves the independent candidate petition deadline (for office other than President) from March to May; (2) it makes it clear that the law, barring independent candidates from the ballot if they had too close an association with any political party, doesn't apply to actions taken outside Read more»

While Independent Constitutionalist JL Mealer has been fighting for his right to participate in the televised debates, he hasn't had to worry about ballot access.

«If Mittens can't beat Grinch in Florida,» Clinton wrote, in reference to eventual nominee Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, «there will be pressure on state Republican parties to reopen or liberalize ballot access especially in the caucuses, which as we know are creatures of the parties» extremes.»

It's one thing to disagree with us on the issues — that's part of politics — but restricting ballot access through unconstitutional laws is not the American way.»

He relied on precedents that do not involve presidential elections, and seemed not to notice that the case only concerns presidential ballot access.

«We will not succeed in placing Green candidates on the Georgia ballot without the participation of citizens willing to carry our ballot access petitions,» said Al Herman, Secretary - Treasurer of the Georgia Party.

Pages 11 - 12 mention ballot access, and cite to studies and recommendations from the past that say petitions to get on the ballot should not exceed 1 % of the number of voters.

In 1985 the 11th circuit ruled in Bergland v Harris that states must be more lenient on ballot access for president than for other office, and that Jenness v Fortson doesn't necessarily apply to presidential candidate procedures.

According to the story, Representative Hamilton didn't like people advocating instead for HB 494, which removes all mandatory petitions and lets the filing fee requirement be the only barrier to November ballot access for independents and minor party candidates.

In terms of ship building, we wouldn't even be able to provide a raft for people to go to because we will have failed to get ballot access in crucial states and will have lost ballot access in states where the CP is ballot qualified because we will have not provided a presidential candidate.

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The candidate did not file enough signatures to be allowed ballot access when previously filing for primary ballot access.

When political parties and public policy groups with such divergent views unite in a common cause it clearly attests to the fact that ballot access reform is not a partisan or special - interest group issue, but a question of fundamental freedom that transcends political and ideological differences.

The candidate filed nomination petitions to run in the general election but did not submit enough valid signatures to gain ballot access.

Though the number of signatures required to gain ballot access as an independent is related to the number of registered voters who are not affiliated with recognized political parties, the affiliation of those signing the petitions does not matter as long as they have not already signed a political party candidate's petition.

In some states, ballot access was not affected by 2012 election results, usually because either the LP achieved four - year ballot access in 2010 or because there are sufficient registered Libertarians to meet the state's requirement.

The commission is considering easing access to the ballot for candidates by lowering the number of signatures needed to get onto the ballot - but is not ready to open access to the ballot for voters.

This appears to mean that HB 32, the ballot access bill that passed the House last year, won't get a vote in the State Senate until May at the earliest.

Imagine if you didn't need to worry about ballot access and could simply focus on campaigning.

That issue is not directly related to this case, but it is relevant because the Libertarian Party's attorney is showing that the legislature can not be trusted to ever pass a constitutional ballot access law, and that it continues to be unreasonably hostile to minor parties.

What's not to like about an organization that is both centered on the most important form of journalism — investigative reports with «moral force» — and agile enough to be hiring an «engagement reporter» and to build innovative online tools like Electionland, which used citizen reports to home in on potential problems with ballot access?

An election was held in April 2014 and the ballots cast by the workers were «impounded» and not counted while the NLRB grappled with the joint employer issue — an issue that quickly became a lightning rod in academic, political and legal circles about access to unionization, generally, and meaningful collective bargaining, specifically.