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candidates filed petitions — Court Attorneys Elena Baron, Court referees Hemalle Patel & Derefim Neckles & attorney Rupert Barry.
Several
candidates filed petitions contesting the result.
Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins will also appear, while five other non-major-party
candidates filed petition signatures last week to create their own ballot lines.
Other potential candidates for state office indicated interest, and several state legislature
candidates filed petitions under the «Taxpayers» banner to be on their ballot.
A total of 15 -
candidates filed petitions to be on the ballot for the May 6th School board election for three at - large seats.
Not exact matches
To be a
candidate, interested persons must
file nominating
petitions signed by 125 qualified voters who are residents of the Arlington Heights Park District.
Monday was the last day for
candidates to
file nominating
petitions for the April 13 election, which will feature races for various village positions as well as contests for school boards, park district boards and library boards.
The deadline to
file nominating
petitions is Monday, and two
candidates are expected to be placed on the March ballot, Smith said.
Two members of the Naperville Park District Board and a member of the district's advisory council have
filed petitions to be
candidates in the coming parks board election.
Others who have
filed candidate petitions for the parks board are incumbents Ronald Ory and Steven Born, said district spokesman Randy Mielke.
Candidates for mayor of Buffalo Grove have until Feb. 1 to
file nominating
petitions, so it is unclear what competition Rubin could face.
An Arlington Heights teenager vying for a seat on the park district board says he will contest objections to his
candidate petition, objections
filed by two current board members and another
candidate.
Akwa Ibom State All Progressives Congress (APC) and its governorship
candidate in the April 11 gubernatorial election, Mr Umana Okon Umana, has approached the Appellate Court in Abuja on Friday, to
file an appeal challenging the judgment of the state Governorship Election
Petition Tribunal on the poll.
In its ruling on Thursday, the tribunal struck out the
petition filed by the APC's
candidate in Benue senatorial poll, Mr Daniel Onjeh.
A similar political sleight - of - hand could be accomplished if Rangel
files petitions and then declines the nomination, enabling his committee on vacancies to select a
candidate to run in his stead.
The general election is slated for November 6th, and
candidates have until April 12th to
file nominating
petitions.
A party that allows
petitioning for primary ballot access may not have a later
filing deadline for presidential
candidates than
candidates in the general primary election.
To qualify for placement on the general election ballot, an independent presidential
candidate must submit a
petition containing the signatures of at least 3,000 registered voters and pay a $ 250
filing fee.
A constituency
candidate at an election who applies for a recount of the votes or a person who
files an election
petition may, by notice in writing to the Electoral Commission, require the Electoral Commission forthwith to annotate the list attached to the master roll pursuant to section 187 (3):
Rensselaer County Executive
Candidate Steven McLaughlin berated his party's elections commissioner during a rant Friday about flawed campaign
petitions filed at the board of elections.
Then after the
petitions are
filed in July, Larkin drops out, his replacement is named by his Vacancy Committee and the Democrats are stuck with its unknown
candidate.
An NYPD detective who was disqualified from challenging a GOP - backed
candidate for a Nassau legislative seat because of a
petition error has
filed an 11th - hour appeal seeking to get on the ballot.
The two marquee
candidates for Buffalo mayor — incumbent Byron Brown and Assemblyman Mark Schroeder, both Democrats —
filed nominating
petitions yesterday with the Erie County Board of Elections, one day ahead of the deadline.
Both Hall — a Democrat who won the Independence cross-endorsement in 2008 — and Hayworth
filed petitions for the line last week, and state party leaders could have authorized both requests and let the
candidates compete in a primary in September.
ALBANY All seven Democratic
candidates seeking to defeat Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) have met the deadline to
file petitions with the state Board of Elections.
Six
candidates set up campaign committees to run for the seat and five
filed petitions with the state Board of Elections to get on the ballot.
To qualify for the race,
candidates had to pay a
filing fee by April 12, 2018, or they must have submitted
petition signatures by March 13, 2018.
Republicans also
filed petitions with 2,300 signatures for Conservative Anthony Senft, an Islip Town board member, to be the GOP
candidate for the seat.
Midnight Thursday, July 13 was the
filing deadline for
candidates to get their bound and paginated
petition volumes to the offices of the City Board of Elections.
Schmitt takes Roddey to court over
petitions, Roddey accuses Schmitt of BS - ing public Assembly
candidate Colin Schmitt has
filed an «invalidating
petition» in State Supreme Court against opponent Kyle Roddey.
The NYC Board of Elections acknowledges that the Bronx Democratic party organization
filed petition volumes for its slate of Council
candidates incumbents Rafael Salamanca, Vanessa Gibson, Fernando Cabrera, Andy Cohen and Andy King as well as Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj and State Sen. Rubén Diaz Sr., judicial delegates, and civil court
candidate, Fidel Gomez.
Silver's 12 - page court claim,
filed in Manhattan Supreme Court last Tuesday, alleges that Lipp didn't get enough Republican signatures on her
petition to become the GOP
candidate in the Assembly race.
Independent
candidates have until Aug. 18 to
file their
petitions, potentially adding even more names to the mix.
Assembly
candidate Colin Schmitt has
filed an «invalidating
petition» in State Supreme Court against opponent Kyle Roddey.
Claire LaPine will still be a
candidate for town board, while the other seat has been
filed for election via and independent
petition by Ken Hughes.
The independent
candidate petition for Jill Stein was submitted on the afternoon of August 6, but the Secretary of State rejected the
petition because it was
filed a few hours after noon.
Edna Wells is not seeking reelection, and a
candidate has not yet
filed petitions for the seat.
If a
candidate qualifies by submitting an in - lieu - of -
filing - fee
petition, the signatures on that
petition will be counted towards the requirement for the nomination paper.
Registered voters may sign both the in - lieu - of -
filing - fee
petition and the nomination paper, unless the
candidate is using the signatures on the in - lieu - of -
filing - fee
petition to count toward the nomination paper requirement.
The Appeal Court on Thursday dismissed a
petition filed by the governorship
candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Bayelsa State in the 2015 election, Mr. Timipre Sylva.
If the number of registered voters in the district in which the
candidate seeks nomination is less than 2,000, a
candidate may submit a
petition containing four signatures for each dollar of the
filing fee, or 20 percent of the total number of registered voters in the district in which he or she seeks nomination, whichever is less.
Instead of paying a
filing fee, a
candidate may submit a
petition.
The PDP in Katsina State and its
candidate, Nazif Yusuf, had in June
filed a
petition challenging the emergence of Mashi as winner of the poll.
Candidates may qualify to run for office either by paying a
filing fee or by submitting a
petition in lieu of the
filing fee.
«This time people are signing my
petitions like wildfire,» said the
candidate, who added that he missed Friday's deadline for campaign finance
filing.
A
candidate must
file a certificate of acceptance or declination of the designation no later than the fourth day after the last day to
file designating
petitions.
A
candidate must
file a certificate of acceptance or declination of the designation no later than the third day after the last day to
file nominating
petitions.
For
petitions filed with the New York State Board of Elections, challengers must serve the
candidate with a copy of the specific objections and submit proof of serving such notice to the state board.
The
filing period for designating
petitions for state and local primary
candidates was July 7 through July 10, 2014.
The governorship
candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the April general elections in Abia, Dr. Alex Otti, has
filed a notice of appeal against the judgment of the trial tribunal which sat in Umuahia and handled his
petition.