Sentences with phrase «ballot by»

Paper Voting: Licensees who wish to vote by paper ballot may request a paper voting package and ballot by emailing the Council at [email protected].

The National Executive is elected directly through postal ballot by SNAICC's full members, who are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community - controlled children's and families» services, for a two year term.

You will automatically receive an early ballot by mail for every election.

(4) The deputy returning officer shall make a note in the poll record of every objection taken to a ballot by a candidate or scrutineer and shall decide the objection, subject to review as hereinafter provided.

The petition, drawn up by foes of gay marriage and certified for the ballot by the state attorney general, would declare that state and local governments in Massachusetts «shall define marriage only as the union of one man and one woman.»

As it stands, uninspired voters can spoil their ballot by doing things like crossing out a candidate's name, writing in an alternative, leaving it blank or drawing happy faces all over it, and Elections Canada will lump them together under the label «rejected» and include them in the official results.

Alan Joyce, who has run Qantas since 2008, praised for his «very public stance» on ballot by list compilers OUTstanding and FT

Voters in Burnsville - Eagan - Savage School District 191 will be asked to vote on two school funding requests that were placed on the November 7 ballot by a unanimous vote of the Board of Education.

Voters in Burnsville - Eagan - Savage School District 191 will be asked to vote on two school funding requests that were placed on the November 7 ballot by a unanimous vote of the Board of...

Today's political landscape in California is far different and the proposal to remove the ban — something that most educators have always advocated and many schools quietly ignored — drew almost no news coverage when it was placed on the ballot by the Legislature in the summer of 2015.

But qualifying for the November ballot by relying on parent volunteers to collect 1.3 million signatures at farmers markets and outside school property by mid-April will be challenging.

Measure O (Los Angeles County)-- a $ 485,000,000 tax, placed on the November 3, 2015 ballot by the Walnut Valley Unified School District failed.

Voters in both those states were unusually supportive of recent spending referendums put on the ballot by school districts.

The site aims to «make students and parents aware of the power of their ballot by actively involving them in a full - fledged campaign and national election.»

In Idaho, a Homestead Exemption initiative, which would exempt the first $ 50,000 of assessed value on residences from property tax, was placed on the November ballot by petition.

The amendment was put on the ballot by the 1995 legislature.

I mentioned over the weekend that Shape is the type of film that can win on a preferential ballot by virtue of garnering an overwhelming tally of first - place votes, ending the contest in the first round of counting.

The advocates want to see greater diversity on that ballot by lowering the number of petition signatures required to run.

Those delegates are identified on the ballot by name and by which candidate they would nominate at the party's national convention.

The Queens Democratic Party had tried to get the U.S. Navy veteran off the ballot by challenging her nominating petitions signatures.

While his record in Albany will surely be the subject of debate should he get enough signatures to get on the ballot by next Thursday, Spitzer does bring some significant name recognition to the race, not to mention a personal wealth that he'll be spending on the race.

In Tennessee, a presidential candidate seeking the nomination of a political party is typically placed on the ballot by the secretary of state.

Once elected, incumbents have helped redraw their own districts to their and their party's advantage and regularly pass legislation benefiting the people and interest groups that help them stay in office (redistricting will be done differently in New York next time thanks to a constitutional amendment passed at the ballot by voters in 2014).

GA: I wouldn't know because I'm not on the front bench, I'm a parliamentarian, elected for the first time ever by all parliamentarians to be a Select Committee chair, and to chair a Select Committee of people elected in a secret ballot by their parties for the first time.

He would also have needed to print petitions and obtained at least 1,250 the signatures in order to make the ballot by the April 18 deadline.

The Board of Elections also knocked knocked off the ballot by board of election for insufficient petitions was Daniel Reynolds.

Before the primary, Mr. Espada decided not to run for re-election and was substituted on the ballot by his son, Pedro Gautier.

Meanwhile, backers of maverick Republican gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino have bigger plans than simply hoping to get the megamillionaire Buffalo - area builder onto the Republican primary ballot by circulating nominating petitions.

Speaking outside the Labour HQ at Westminster, Corbyn also said he hoped there would be no legal challenge following victory in the secret ballot by the National Executive Committee.

A voter may also request an absentee ballot by sending a letter to the county board of election.

The labor - backed Working Families Party withstood what many have characterized as an attempt from its own candidate, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to destroy it — but in the process got elbowed out of its row on the ballot by an insurgent Green Party led by gubernatorial contender Howie Hawkins.

Frank Gulluscio, a Democrat who ran against Ulrich in the February special election for the seat but was removed from the ballot by a petition challenge, was also endorsed by DC 37.

Lower the threshold for a new political party to qualify for the ballot by reducing the number of signatures they must collect from 2 % of the vote for Governor to 0.25 % of the vote for Governor or President, whichever is less.

Oddly enough, Peterson was helped onto the ballot by incumbent County Executive Joanie Mahoney, a Republican seeking her third term.

He was selected by the Democratic Party organization in the Bronx after another candidate, Raysa Castillo, was removed from the ballot by a State Supreme Court judge for residency discrepancies.

Lindsay campaign officials tried to pick up petition blanks to add her to the ballot by petition, but county elections Read more»

Stec congratulated Stefanik and said he would work hard on behalf of both election reform and continue to fight against corruption in Albany, specifically seeking to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot by next year that would call for stripping elected officials convicted of crimes of their public pensions.

Washington (CNN)-- Though it would have been next to impossible for him to garner the signatures necessary to get on the Republican primary ballot by Tuesday afternoon, Indiana Rep. Mike Pence re-iterated Monday that he has no interest in running for the Senate this year.

California — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R): The four reform propositions placed on the 2005 ballot by Schwarzenegger were all defeated, a sign that Golden State voters may have tired of the Governator's schtick.

If Bellavia did not get the Conservative Party nod, he could still qualify for the ballot by collecting 3,500 signatures within 12 days of the governor's proclamation of the date of the special election.

No group has qualified to place a presidential candidate on the ballot by either type of petition, in over ten years.

The primary campaign could be crowded, especially if some candidates take advantage of their right to petition onto the ballot by collecting signatures from enrolled party members.

The parties were put on the ballot by court order in 2008, and they have remained on ever since because the old ballot access law had been declared unconstitutional in 2006 and had not been replaced.

Only one voter had cast a ballot by 8 a.m. at a polling place at Albany High School on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015.

Select Committees are elected in a secret ballot by their respective parties.

Clark and Campusano were kicked off the ballot by the Manhattan Board of Elections, in proceedings overseen by Deputy Chief Clerk William Allen, himself a Democratic District Leader in the neighboring AD 70 Part A and a close ally of Wright.

«Only the three of us, Democrats, Republicans and Greens got that ballot by running our own candidate.»

After his loss, Meyer bowed out of the race, getting his name off the ballot by agreeing to run for a judgeship after Grafton Town Justice Pierce Hoyt, a county employee, resigned from his job.

Smith, like Republicans Stemerman and Bob Stefanowski, will attempt to qualify for the primary ballot by collecting signatures.

Colorado Governor: Faulty signatures is a bipartisan problem, as Republican Walker Stapleton found his own petitions to be problematic and now must make the primary ballot by exceeding the 30 percent threshold at the GOP state assembly on Saturday, but he's not the only credible Republican in the race.