Sentences with phrase «automatic general election ballot»

Cuomo and Nixon have each now been endorsed by a minor party with automatic general election ballot access, even as they vie for the big prize of the Democratic

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A political party is granted automatic ballot status — the right to field a candidate in any race in the state without circulating petitions — if its gubernatorial candidate wins more than 50,000 votes in a general election.

However, several states have threshold requirements for parties to obtain automatic ballot access to the next general election without having to submit voter - signed petitions.

Under the constitution, New Yorkers get to choose whether to have a constitutional convention every 20 years through an automatic ballot question in a general election.

In 2010, it was the W.F.P. that wooed a popular Cuomo: The then - attorney general agreed to take its nomination, giving the party the general election votes needed to keep an automatic ballot line.