Sentences with phrase «allowed onto the ballot»

Cox insisted he hadn't encouraged Mermel to (the theory goes that he's trying to broaden the field in hopes of siphoning off support from Lazio to help Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, or perhaps make an argument that there are so many candidates everyone should simply be automatically allowed onto the ballot).

Meanwhile, Jacobs raised the possibility yesterday that all five attorney general contenders would be allowed onto the ballot at the convention.

Yesterday I wrote to Harriet Harman to urge her to use her position as Acting Leader in association with the party's national officers to secure a reduction of the qualifying threshold for candidates to be allowed onto the ballot paper.

Not exact matches

Twenty - six states allow citizens to gather signatures and place measures onto the ballot, while every legislature may place statutory laws before voters.

Her exit allowed her supporters to transfer their backing to other candidates to enable them to get onto the ballot paper.

Spitzer declined, even after Cuomo successfully blocked all his primary opponents form getting onto the ballot at the convention (recall that this year, all five AG candidates were allowed on the ballot after much mathematical manipulation of the weighted vote).

Which is why it would be so foolish to allow that candidate onto the ballot in the first place, however tempting it might be to do a deal involving more loaned nominations.

An Appeals Court reversed the NY Supreme Court decision allowing Dagan Lacorte onto the Democratic primary ballot Wednesday.

An appellate court Monday allowed Coll onto the ballot after a lower court disqualified him because of a petition error.

They lobbied hard to allow him and all the candidates onto the primary ballot.

Court cans Lacorte on technicality; 4 - 0 decision means final appeal a long shot BY MARC MOSS An Appeals Court reversed the NY Supreme Court decision allowing Dagan Lacorte onto the Democratic primary ballot Wednesday.