Sentences with phrase «ballot petition»

It asked them to withdraw their signature from the Public Water Now ballot petition based on what Cal Am claimed were inaccurate and misleading statements made by Public Water Now (PWN).

Please consider signing the Yes on Reducing Euthanasia ballot petition.

She also pointed out potential inadvertent consequences of the bill, noting that there are strict criteria for qualifying expenditures under the public funds program, and more public funds could make it harder for candidates to justify spending on non-qualifying purposes such as defending a ballot petition in court.

But in a sworn statement June 23, Bojlevski said he believed he was signing a ballot petition for Walsh and wasn't aware of the document's true nature.

Weinberg, president of the West Harlem Progressive Democratic Club, helped the Ortega and Ortiz - Thompson ticket gather ballot petition signatures and served as witness on them, but told Gotham Gazette he did so on his own accord, not as a representative of Wright or the county party, where he serves as executive director.

«An individual chose to pursue an Opportunity to Ballot petition, thereby allowing anyone's name to be written in,» Bonacic spokesman Conor Gillis said.

The way around the ballot petition process in New York is through automatic ballot access, where a political party gets fifty thousand votes for their gubernatorial candidate.

Seeber, in response, reiterated that all six of the registered Women's Equality Party members in Queensbury signed her opportunity to ballot petition.

[TimesLedger] Gotham Gazette combines mazes with cute birds and ballot petition trivia in an attempt to edutain New Yorkers about the political process.

The opportunity to ballot petition usually is a tactic to get on the ballot against the party's wishes, but Seeber said that was not the case, in this instance.

July 13, 2017: Mangano lets pass the deadline to submit ballot petitions to run for another term as county executive as a Republican.

As a result, Greenfield's committee on vacancies (a group of endorsers listed on his ballot petitions) got to choose who would replace Greenfield.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, awaiting trial on federal corruption charges, will not seek a third term on the Republican line after he missed yesterday's deadline to submit ballot petitions.

Three former campaign workers for Bronx Councilwoman Maria Del Carmen Arroyo's reelection bid were charged with forging nearly 100 signatures, including Derek Jeter's and Kate Moss», on the candidate's primary ballot petitions.

THE BRONX — Three former campaign workers for Bronx Councilwoman Maria Del Carmen Arroyo's reelection bid were charged with forging nearly 100 signatures, including Derek Jeter's and Kate Moss», on the candidate's primary ballot petitions, according to the Bronx District Attorney's Office.

Kahn directed the county to work with «all deliberate speed» in order not to disrupt to this year's election calendar, which begins with ballot petitioning in early June.

Ballot petitioning begins next week, and the Democrats are jockeying for the right to face Guilderland Republican Ted Danz and Albany Conservative Party member Joseph Sullivan in the general election.

According to sources familiar with his thinking, in recent weeks — with the kickoff for ballot petitions fast approaching and the political climate unsettled nationwide — Fossella has been weighing a run for the seat currently held by Democratic Rep. Mike McMahon.

Each also filed Opportunity To Ballot petitions, forcing primaries on both the Republican and Democratic lines.

Allen also filed Opportunity to Ballot petitions, forcing primaries featuring Maloney's name but not his on the Conservative and Independence lines.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, awaiting trial on federal corruption charges, will not seek a third term on the Republican line after he missed Thursday's deadline to submit ballot petitions.

Opportunity to ballot petitions for state and local offices were due June 24, 2014.

These are called opportunity to ballot petitions and are substantially the same as designating petitions (i.e., the petitions are held to the same signature and filing requirements, etc.), except that they do not require a candidate to be named.

Republicans, too, this week unveiled their effort to garner votes through another ballot line with the «Stop Common Core» ballot petitions being submitted to the state Board of Elections.

Walsh's delegates still have to survive challenges to their ballot petitions.

Arroyo was reelected to the City Council in 2013 despite three of her campaign workers getting charged with forging almost 100 signatures on her primary ballot petitions, including Derek Jeter's and Kate Moss's.

And while a muscular fundraiser, his was among the campaigns that deployed paid canvassers to circulate ballot petitions.

Assuming he gets the necessary signatures on ballot petitions, Williams will face the incumbent in a Sept. 11 primary.

Democrats last month filed ballot petitions to get the referendum before voters during the November general election.

But the media scrum was far smaller than when he handed out ballot petitions in Manhattan's Union Square two weeks ago.

Yet another mayoral candidate — that'd be No. 7 — emerged Thursday on the final day to file party ballot petitions.

Peter LaVenia, secretary to the Upper Hudson Green Party, said the organization drafted Peltz when it got wind of a bid by another candidate to submit opportunity to ballot petitions that could allow a non-Green Party member to co-opt the ballot line through a write - in campaign — a tactic which party leaders don't look kindly on.

The current election calendar begins with ballot petitioning in June.

He also believes the lawsuit is retribution after Bichotte unsuccessfully challenged Adolphe's ballot petitions.

He and his father, Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., though, were investigated by the FBI in 2007 over ballot petitions.

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After finishing the review, and assuming everything is in order, Austin's city council will have 10 days to either adopt the language in the petition or put it up for vote on a May 7 ballot.

Proponents of a measure that would require companies to disclose the data they collect from consumers have submitted signatures on petitions to qualify the initiative for the November ballot, paving the way for a heated battle over privacy.

They plan to circulate petitions to put an assault weapon ban on the 2020 ballot if neither the Revision Commission nor the Legislature responds adequately by then.

The petition contained 350,000 signatures, and only 241,153 validated signatures are required to qualify for the November 2013 ballot.

The HSUS has officially withdrawn a ballot initiative petition on the same subject, which would have also phased out the confinement of egg - laying hens in battery cages.

Gurnee Park District actions this year made Eileen Fiddyment and others angry enough to circulate petitions to get a referendum question on the November ballot that will ask voters whether the district should be dissolved.

The Glen Ellyn and Oak Brook Park Districts will proceed with a lawsuit Wednesday against the Du Page County Board of Election Commissioners despite a successful petition drive in Glen Ellyn to place three alternative referendum questions on the ballot.

The first step in the process is gathering residents» signatures on petitions asking the Cook County Board of Elections to add the question to the November ballot, according to Ron Castrogiovanni, a spokesman for a group of residents.

The decision halts an election board hearing scheduled for Thursday to review petitions the group filed with the DuPage County Election Commission in December for a referendum question on the March 16 ballot.

He argued that a successful petition drive would guarantee that at least some questions regarding the proposed Newton Park facility would be on the November ballot.

Barbara Sheldon, one of three candidates for Buffalo Grove village president, has been disqualified from the April 2 ballot because election officials found her nominating petitions faulty.

In March of 1936 the Park Board of Commissioners was presented with two petitions, one against and one for putting a question on the ballot.

But if the district «s suit fails and the petition drive is successful, the referendum questions favored by the petition drive organizers would appear on the ballot, according to officials.

Smith and other members of a grass - roots organization working to create a park district scored their biggest victory to date on Friday, when McHenry County Associate Judge Haskell M. Pitluck validated the group's petitions, allowing the question to be placed on the March ballot.

The deadline to file nominating petitions is Monday, and two candidates are expected to be placed on the March ballot, Smith said.