Sentences with phrase «candidate onto the ballot»

And Ms. Meng's ties to the Queens County Democratic Party — who have fended off accusations of throwing surrogate candidates onto the ballot to weaken Mr. Lancman — will hurt her.

Which is why it would be so foolish to allow that candidate onto the ballot in the first place, however tempting it might be to do a deal involving more loaned nominations.

Not exact matches

The truncated political calendar necessary as a result of the court's decision to move up the federal primaries has reduced the number of signatures necessary to get onto the ballot, but also shortened the amount of time in which candidates have to circulate petitions.

Expectation is that at least two — and maybe three — candidates get onto the ballot this afternoon.

The comptroller was the first candidate to hit the 25 percent mark to get onto the ballot, but that requires his home county of Nassau and neighboring Suffolk to remain firmly in his camp.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox insisted following the failure of his preferred candidate, Steve Levy, to make it onto the ballot at the convention today that the party - switching Suffolk County executive's gubernatorial campaign is finished and he will not be trying to launch a petition drive for an independent bid.

Sources said Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Mondello likes the idea of an independent line because he thinks it might help his hometown US Senate candidate, Bruce Blakeman, in the general election against the Conservatives» nominee, former Rep. Joe DioGuardi (assuming DioGuardi doesn't succeeed in his petitioning effort to get onto the primary ballot and defeat both Blakeman and David Malpass in September).

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.

Cox insisted he hadn't encouraged Mermel to (the theory goes that he's trying to broaden the field in hopes of siphoning off support from Lazio to help Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, or perhaps make an argument that there are so many candidates everyone should simply be automatically allowed onto the ballot).

If all else fails, Paladino is planning to petition his way onto the ballot as an independent candidate, although he will not be naming his self - created line the «Tea Party,» because that would be seen as «an anathema» to activsits, Caputo said.

Faso has a lot to teach the would - be candidate about working the GOP grassroots to get onto the ballot at the state convention.

This second ballot also offers another opportunity for a third candidate, most likely Maragos, the Nassau County comptroller, to get 25 percent and get onto the ballot.

According to Barron, his supporters collected names in every one of the state's 29 congressional districts and passed the 100 - name limit in 23 of those (the requirement is at least 100 in 15 districts, so candidates can't just stand on a single busy street corner in NYC and get onto the ballot).

The endorsement of the Nassau County GOP pushed Wilson passed the 76 percent mark — far more than the 25 percent necessary for a candidate to get onto the ballot.

April 16th at midnight is the filing deadline for congressional candidates to deliver their signatures to the local Board of Elections to get onto the June 26th primary ballot, but in an interesting wrinkle in election law, candidates can still substitute in someone else after this date.

Other candidates can petition their way onto the September primary ballot during the summer.

Steele pointedly didn't single out the state's GOP chairman, Ed Cox, for any praise — perhaps because none of the candidates who won got onto the ballot with his assistance.

Steele and Cox have been at odds for some time, starting with a fallout over the state chairman's push to get party - flipping Suffolk Executive Steve Levy onto the ballot as a gubernatorial candidate.

Now is not the time to fantasise about an alternative ideal candidate — they do not exist and could not make it onto the ballot.

There are also Republican and Democratic candidates who plan to, at least in part, self - fund their campaigns, meaning even if they don't qualify for the primary they could use their own money to hire petitioners to force their way onto a primary or general election ballot.

Candidates need at least 1,250 valid signatures to make into onto the primary ballot.

Nixon and Williams are expected to be formally designated at the WFP's May 19th convention and, unless any other prospective candidate successfully petitions onto the primary ballot, become the WFP's nominees.

(A congressional candidate seeking to also get on the ballot for a legislative election might need to start circulating petitions to get onto the September 11th state ballot while still campaigning for the June 27th congressional primary.)

Prior to the WFP's convention, polls showed that Cuomo's lead over Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino would shrink considerably if a nameless third party candidate made it onto the ballot.

That would be enough to get a Corbynite onto the ballot, though that candidate would need the backing of every single one of the survivors - John McDonnell probably wouldn't manage it.

Her exit allowed her supporters to transfer their backing to other candidates to enable them to get onto the ballot paper.

Spitzer declined, even after Cuomo successfully blocked all his primary opponents form getting onto the ballot at the convention (recall that this year, all five AG candidates were allowed on the ballot after much mathematical manipulation of the weighted vote).

In response to Bronx Chronicle inquiries, the Liberal Party of New York acknowledges that it «does not have a permanent ballot line at this time» and that all of our candidates are petitioning onto the line for the November general election.

Since California implemented the top - two primary system, minor party and no party preference candidates have had a harder time making it onto the ballot.

An independent candidate would have to collect 3,500 valid signatures in order to get onto the ballot.

His predecessor as Democrat leader, Malcolm Smith, was convicted earlier this year of seeking to bribe his way onto the New York City mayoral ballot as a Republican candidate.

Fusion candidates have come under new scrutiny after Sen. Malcolm Smith was arrested in an alleged scheme to bribe his way onto the New York City mayoral ballot through securing a Wilson - Pakula and run on the GOP line.

The Green Party candidate in NY - 21, Matt Funiciello, says he has gathered enough signatures to get onto the June 24 primary ballot.

The legislation would also take the nominations for special election candidates out of the hands of the local party apparatus and have candidates petition their way onto the ballot, similar to a general election.

DuHaime, who also worked on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's successfull campaign last fall and is now with Mercury Public Affairs, joined the Malpass campaign back in March as the would - be candidate was gearing up to make a push to get onto the ballot at the state convention.

We can do this by using our existing Reform Party ballot lines, petitioning our candidate onto a handful more, and by petitioning for our potential nominees at Americans Elect (www.americanselect.org).

Yesterday I wrote to Harriet Harman to urge her to use her position as Acting Leader in association with the party's national officers to secure a reduction of the qualifying threshold for candidates to be allowed onto the ballot paper.

In Virginia, all candidates running in either a primary, or petitioning directly onto the November ballot, must submit a petition.

All six declared candidates secured more than the 45 nominations from MPs that was the minimum requirement for them to get onto the ballot paper by close of nominations at 12:30 UTC +1 on 17 May 2007.

Candidates must get a certain number of signatures on a petition to make it onto the ballot.

Several candidates are expected to try to use the petition mechanism to get onto the ballot in the governor's race, including fellow Democrat Guy Smith and GOP businessman Bob Stefanowski.

Also: Independent candidates can petition their way onto the ballot if they're passed over for the special election by party leaders.

Under party rules, the candidates must gather nominations from 15 % of the parliamentary party — the equivalent of 35 MPs - by 15 June in order to make it onto the final ballot list in August.

No one has ever petitioned onto the Delaware ballot as an independent candidate for U.S. Senate.

They lobbied hard to allow him and all the candidates onto the primary ballot.

Ellis says Davis has collected more than 11,000 signatures, which is far more than the 3,500 necessary to get onto the ballot as an independent candidate.

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.

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In addition to Perry and former Rep. Chris Bell (D), two other candidates — state Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn (mother of White House spokesman Scott McClellan) and humorist Kinky Friedman — are seeking to petition their way onto the ballot as independents.

During the GOP convention, DioGuardi was the only candidate that didn't make it onto the ballot for US Senate, after he failed to get 25 percent in a three - way battle with David Malpass and Bruce Blakeman.