Sentences with phrase «allowing access to the ballot»

Richard Lee Winger (born August 27, 1943) is an advocate in the United States for minor political parties, in particular for what he considers more equitable laws allowing access to the ballot for minor parties.

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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.

«Laws that would allow for automatic voter registration, early voting, no - excuse absentee voting, and consolidation of primary elections will empower voters and give greater access to the ballot,» she said.

However, Democratic party chair Jay Jacobs argues the process is also democratic (note the lowercase «d») because in the contentious five - way race for Attorney General, the party made a decision to allow all candidates access to a primary ballot instead of letting delegates narrow the field at the convention.

New York's easy ballot access: New York's election rules allow any «nationally known and recognized» presidential candidates to appear on the ballot, making it easy to gain a ballot line compared to some other states.

There are three ballot propositions on the November ballot: 1) Creation of a redistricting commission to draw the new state legislative and House of Representatives» district lines every 10 years, with the commission members appointed by the state legislative leaders, 2) amend the current constitutional requirement of distributing paper versions of proposed bills to state legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.»

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

In ballot access victories for the LP resulting from U.S. Senate campaigns, Joseph Kexel won 61,904 votes (2.1 percent), gaining ballot access in Wisconsin; Scotty Bowman won 84,198 votes (1.8 percent), retaining ballot access in Michigan; and Paul Passarelli won 25,059 votes (1.7 percent), allowing the LP to run a U.S. Senate candidate in Connecticut in 2016, as well as a U.S. House 2nd District candidate in 2014, without petitioning.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has written passionately about the need to break the ironclad link between educational opportunity and zip code and advocated a voucher system that would allow open access to all public schools in a region, hemmed and hawed for weeks before issuing a statement against the ballot question.