Sentences with phrase «achieving ballot access»

In Massachusetts, achieving ballot access actually makes getting candidates on the ballot more difficult, although having party status provides other benefits, such as listing the Libertarian Party as a choice on voter registration forms.

So achieving ballot access right now is truly an URGENT situation.

The problem is that across the country there is an absolute lack of urgency on the part of state parties in achieving ballot access.

Wagner, a Hudson Valley lawyer, says he's also filed 3,225 petition signatures this week with the state Board of Elections in order to achieve ballot access.

Though the Green Party does not have state affiliates in all 50 states, the group achieved ballot access in 45 states and write - in status in three states for the 2016 election cycle as of October 2016.

As of October 2016, the Green Party had achieved ballot access in 45 states and write - in status in three states for the 2016 election cycle.

The last time a minor party candidate achieved ballot access was in 2000, when Pat Buchanan ran on the Reform Party line.

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.

The LP can potentially save hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2014 and 2016 — and countless volunteer hours — if Gov. Gary Johnson, Libertarian for President, and down - ticket Libertarian candidates meet state requirements to achieve ballot access.

However, it appears the party has not achieve ballot access in any state yet.

Hawkins easily helped the third party achieve ballot access for this coming election by surpassing the 50,000 - vote threshold....

Astorino has said he opposes having third - party candidates who achieved ballot access to be included in any debate, a position that Syracuse native and Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins takes issue with.

By getting involved in your local Green chapter and online, we will elect more officials, run more ballot initiatives, be visibly in solidarity with justice movements, achieve ballot access quickly, and be a network of communities resisting two - party electoral oppression.

North Carolina is a notoriously difficult state to achieve ballot access in and Read more»

Not exact matches

«The results of the GOP State Convention Gubernatorial voting represent a personal disappointment, as we did not achieve the required 15 percent of delegate support for primary ballot access.

Nevertheless, Teachout and Wu say they have collected 45,000 signatures to achieve primary ballot access this September.

Roseanne Barr's campaign has also declared a priority of achieving Green Party ballot access across the country.

For a party that only four years ago had to struggle to gain ballot access for the next election cycle, the Green Party has achieved a new level of permanency in state politics.

The law says if you achieve that, your party gets automatic ballot access until the next gubernatorial election.

But Hawkins, who helped the Green Party achieve automatic ballot access four years after receiving more than 50,000 votes, says he's technically running closer to Astorino than Astorino is to Cuomo in a recent Marist College poll.

In a few states, such as Minnesota, New Jersey, and Tennessee, where ballot access is difficult to achieve, getting candidates on the ballot is relatively easy.

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.