Sentences with phrase «ballot access challenges»

State Senator Alex Padilla, D - Los Angeles, who serves on the State Senate Elections Committee, was the first state legislator to express concerns about those ballot access challenges, and his office says it's looking into legislative solutions.

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By challenging her petitions he can force her lean campaign to spend tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to defend her access to the ballot.

We even joined in a lawsuit challenging the ballot access laws.

On January 31, 2012, the Oklahoma Libertarian Party and the Oklahoma Green Party filed a lawsuit, challenging the state's ballot access procedure for newly - qualifying parties, which this year required 51,739 valid signatures due March 1 (the state defends the early deadline on the grounds that all parties, even newly - qualifying parties, must choose nominees in the June primary).

This is a ballot access case, which challenged the North Dakota law on how a minor party candidate for the state legislature gets on the ballot.

The Green Party of Georgia, and the Constitution Party of Georgia, challenged Georgia's ballot access procedures for presidential candidates on May 25, 2012.

But for everyone else — including Chris Christie, John Kasich and Rand Paul, whose campaigns say they are on track to be on the ballot everywhere — ballot access is an expensive challenge.

On January 10, a U.S. District Court held oral arguments in Green Party of Tennessee et al v Goins, a lawsuit in which the Green and Constitution Parties challenge the Tennessee ballot access law for new and previously unqualified parties.

The case challenges North Carolina's ballot access procedure for independent candidates to get on the ballot for U.S. House.

In 2004, various law firms, and other organizations, spent millions of dollars challenging Ralph Nader's independent candidacy's ballot access in 18 states.

The case challenges the Georgia ballot access laws for President, which are so stringent, no Read more»

• Winning local office • Running an ideological or educational campaign to build party presence • Ballot access • Challenging an incumbent • Raise important issues, get into the political debate

Now, with the challenge period past and the Illinois Green Party ceritifed, we are declaring victory in winning a ballot line in one of the toughest remaining states in our ballot access struggle!

Darcy Richardson, a contributor to IPR who challenged President Barack Obama in five Democratic Party presidential primaries, says he now plans to «actively seek» the presidential nomination of the Reform Party and several single state ballot - qualified parties in hopes of attaining ballot access in a dozen states for the general election.

On June 21, the Alabama Constitution, Green, and Libertarian Parties filed their reply brief in Stein v Chapman, which challenges Alabama ballot access procedures for putting the presidential nominee of an unqualified party on the November ballot.

The Green Party of Oklahoma will be filing suit in February against the state of Oklahoma, to challenge the state's ultra-restrictive ballot access laws.

It challenges the ballot access law for independent candidates for the U.S. House.

«The political consequences for challenging petitions — for bringing a ballot - access case against your opponent — has grown significantly, in terms of editorial support and claiming some sort of good - government mantle,» he said.