Sentences with phrase «ballot lines from»

Republican and Democratic candidates have the ability to steal ballot lines from endorsed Green Party candidates, and add them to their own through fusion.

Former Rep. Michael Grimm's campaign on Tuesday announced plans to take the Conservative Party ballot line from incumbent Republican Dan Donovan in the 11th congressional district.

Lavine got stunned by Walsh, who snagged a ballot line from under her with write - in votes.

He has pledged to withdraw his party's endorsement and ballot line from all four GOP senators who voted «yes» and enabled the bill to pass, 33 - 29, last month.

But Hochul is not well - known statewide — she's running to replace Cuomo's current lieutenant governor, Robert Duffy — and will appear on a separate ballot line from Cuomo in next month's primary, making her uniquely vulnerable to the protest ticket being led by Zephyr Teachout.

But while New York's fusion voting system allows candidates who are registered Democrats to receive the ballot line from a party in which they are not enrolled, the party's officers still must be members of that party.

In a recent article for Jacobin, Green Party Lieutenant Governor candidate Brian Jones argues that the party made substantial progress because the party's improved showing this year allows the party to move over two positions on the ballot line from Row «F» to Row «D».

Meanwhile, Times writer Jeremy Peters reports that the state Conservative Party has been threatening to take away their ballot line from Republican senators who support the bill, which in some cases may count as thousands of votes.

Not exact matches

Paladino, an enrolled Republican, would have to seek the approval from the Conservative Party in order to gain the ballot line.

Andrew Cuomo, then running for governor in 2010, at the last minute agreed to run on the WFP's ballot line, thus saving them from spiraling into the political black hole that swallowed up the now - defunct Liberal Party.

Not surprisingly, state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long is not at all pleased with the talk in Albany these days of going away with so - called fusion voting by repealing or amending the Wilson - Pakula statute that requires candidates who aren't enrolled in a particular party to get permission from that party's leaders to run on their ballot line.

He won't appear on our ballot line, but that just means we'll be working twice as hard to make sure that that every voter knows that Amodeo is the candidate who will stand up for hard working families in Albany, from raising the minimum wage to ending the influence of big money on politics.»

The email comes as party leaders from across the state and the political spectrum question or outright oppose ending the law, which allows members of one political party a waiver to run on another ballot line.

Lazio on the Conservative ballot creates the awful choice for Conservatives of voting for Paladino to defeat Cuomo versus voting the Conservative line to give the party its needed 50,000 votes thereby helping Cuomo by taking away a vote from Paladino, the only candidate who can beat Cuomo.

Lazio was the only candidate to get onto the ballot at the convention, but Carl Paladino went on to cream him in the GOP primary and he «ran» for a Bronx judgeship to get off the Conservative line and cede it to the businessman from Buffalo.

Cuomo received the WFP's ballot line after intense negotiations and a challenge from Fordham Law School professor Zephyr Teachout, who would go on to challenge Cuomo in a Democratic primary.

And from the comments: KJ, a below the line ballot may still be counted if 90 % or more of it is completed with three errors or less (and here's the tweet that proves it, full details are here with examples).

In the wake of the latest bombshell corruption scandal, which netted two New York City GOP officials from Queens and the Bronx, other party leaders were quick to volunteer that knew absolutely nothing about the scheme to essentially buy a GOP ballot line in the NYC mayor's race for Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith.

The Reform Party, a ballot line formed last year by Republican gubernatorial nominee Rob Astorino, filed its first campaign finance report since it was rechristened this election season, showing a single, massive donation from a limited liability company.

The Working Families Party can endorse someone from another party (usually a Democrat) and give them their ballot line; all the votes a candidate receives on different party lines are added up together.

A party line that appears on ballots as «WEP,» the thinking went, might siphon off votes from people intending to support the WFP.

The WFP gets its own line in a prime place on a New York state ballot, and if they'd put another candidate on it, that would have siphoned away significant votes from Cuomo in the general.

Some Democrats had counted on Doheny keeping the Independence Party ballot line, siphoning votes from Stefanik.

It's all designed to keep the WFP from winning the 50,000 votes it needs in November's gubernatorial race to keep its permanent ballot line for the next four years.

There has been a lot of criticism recently of Governor Cuomo's calls for the elimination of the Wilson Pakula Act — the law that gives party bosses the power to let candidates from other parties run on their ballot lines.

(Unlike with the WFP line, she would not need permission from party leaders to run because she is a registered Democrat, so the threshold to ballot access — while still daunting — is slightly lower).

The papers Sliwa tried serving on de Blasio stem from an apparent violation in city election rules governing how political parties can give their ballot lines to candidates who are not enrolled in the party.

We've worked real hard and we went from not having any direct line to the ballot.»

The eyebrow - raising push came this afternoon in the form of an email from the Working Families Party, which spurned Teachout in May in favor of giving Cuomo the labor - backed party's ballot line this fall.

Astorino is running on a ballot line created by Republicans called «Stop Common Core» and has pledged to withdraw the state from the controversial standards.

The Conservative Party's executive committee voted last month to formally oppose the new ballot line, and its county chairs are being urged to dissuade candidates from the taking the Reform Party line.

But ironically, keeping the WFP's ballot status, much less its spot at Row E, appears to be increasingly a concern for party leaders and activists as the governor pushes for voters to back him on the Women's Equality Party line, which is increasingly being seen as a rival for liberals» votes and potential siphon away support from the WFP.

Baldridge, currently the Rose town supervisor, ran unopposed on the Democratic line thanks to a petition challenge from the GOP that knocked his opponent off the ballot.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has faced criticism from the Working Families Party over the formation of the Women's Equality Party ballot line, which WFP officials said helped siphon votes away from their ballot line.

They should be forced to start from scratch and get 50,000 signatures to create a new ballot line.

Facing pressure over a possible challenge from the labor - backed WFP, Cuomo last month pledged to help Democrats retake the Senate and work to help pass a package of liberal - friendly legislation when he received its ballot line.

Many Party members will take the same line as LabourList and want to convince themselves that elections in our Party are fair and above board.Sadly this is not the case.Last year after the CAC Election a number of delegates, from several different Regions, came forward and said full time officials encouraged them to vote against Katy and myself.This is totally against the Code of Conduct and, to me, is little different to ballot rigging.An investigation is underway.We have a good idea who was behind it.LeftFutures will keep you updated.

«I am proud to be on the Green Party ballot line and I will work tirelessly as a Senator to protect our environment and make sure Long Island is prepared for any future natural disasters as we continue to recover and rebuild from Hurricane Sandy.»

At a rally in New York City Thursday, Ms. Hochul, a former Democratic Congresswoman from Western New York, said she and the governor are forming the new ballot line to «mobilize women and supporters all across the state» following the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on contraceptives and the failure of the New York State Legislature to pass the Women's Equality Act, according to Capital New York.

With endorsements from both the Independence and Conservative parties, Rye City Councilwoman Julie Killian, a Republican, will now carry four ballot lines in her November state Senate -LSB-...]

Cuomo also created a third - party ballot line, the Women's Equality Party — one letter different from the WFP — which ended up siphoning enough votes from the WFP to push the party down below the Green Party to Row E on the ballot line.

But in both of these races, a candidate who lost the Democratic primary to Warren appeared on the general election ballot on the Working Families and Independence lines, and the share for that second Democrat decreased from 39 percent to 14 percent.

In an embarrassment for the political establishment, Guillermo Philpotts, a perennial candidate for local office, secured the Democratic nomination for a Crown Heights Assembly race this afternoon, beating back a last - ditch effort from ex-Democratic boss Clarence Norman to keep him off the ballot line, sources say.

They say Skelos has rewarded Westchester Independence Party leader Giulio Cavallo with patronage jobs and other support — in hopes of getting Independence backing for Senate candidates next year — at the same time that Cavallo was blocking Astorino from getting his party's ballot line.

WFP officials have said publicly that Cuomo has leveled threats against the WFP, telling them to «lose my number» if they endorsed Nixon and would find ways of pulling funding from the advocacy organizations that remain with the liberal ballot line.

In 2014, Cuomo backed a Democratic - led state Senate as he received the endorsement from the WFP, a labor - backed organization that had flirted with the possibility of giving its ballot line to Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor who ultimately challenged the governor in a Democratic primary.

GOP Congressman Michael Grimm lost the Independence Party's ballot line when he did not turn in enough valid signatures from voters in the district, but he appealed the decision arguing that a systemic problem with the Board of Elections unfairly placed obstacles in his signature - gathering efforts.

Regarding Scozzafava's ties to the WFP and the recent attacks from Hoffman and the Conservative Party, Burns and other Republicans in upstate New York reminded me that this is a «first,» that since 1998, more than eighty Republican candidates have sought office running with both the Conservative and WFP ballot lines.

A pair of labor unions on Friday announced they are withdrawing from the Working Families Party a day before Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon is potentially endorsed by the ballot line.

After Rockland County Democrats scored a victory late last week by re-affirming ballot status for the county's Women's Equality Party candidates, Onondaga County Republicans on Monday scored a win in court, knocking some 20 candidates from the ballot line.