Sentences with phrase «candidates by petition»

Minor parties are also permitted to nominate candidates by petition or by assembly.

Not exact matches

The nominating committee's slate can be challenged by candidates nominated by a petition process from the members; but the way things normally work — and always, now, for the officers — «elections» take place with only one person «competing» for each slot.

To be a candidate, interested persons must file nominating petitions signed by 125 qualified voters who are residents of the Arlington Heights Park District.

Any resident who wants to be a candidate may pick up a nominating petition at the Park District office, 410 N. Arlington Heights Rd.. The resident must get the signatures of 382 qualified voters and return the petitions by Jan. 21.

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.

In its ruling on Thursday, the tribunal struck out the petition filed by the APC's candidate in Benue senatorial poll, Mr Daniel Onjeh.

Given the primary for Congressional races is now due to be held on June 26 and candidates would have to start gathering petitions by the end of next month.

The MTGP Coordinator Danielle Breck stated that «The Montana Green Party has repeatedly shown, through our various petitioning efforts, that we do, in fact, have the «modicum of voter support» the law requires and that our candidates are not «frivolous,» but rather provide an important alternative to pre-selected, unresponsive, corporate controlled candidates offered by the two - party oligarchy.

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):

«These strong petition numbers reflect that Democratic voters do not want their candidate to be selected by party insiders,» he said in a news release.

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.

Positing that she would only address «on - topic» questions, Malliotakis had little to say when asked about allegations by rival candidate Bo Dietl that her campaign submitted improper petitioning documents to the Board of Elections.

The loyalty clause, which was added in 2002, prohibits the following activities, by a committee member, involving candidates other than the party's endorsed candidate: circulating nominating petitions; appearing in advertising; permitting the committee member's name to be used in advertising or on stationery; directly or indirectly contributing financially to a campaign; and appearing at political functions, meetings or support groups organized by a rival candidate.

A state board hearing on petitions of Libertarian candidate Michael McDermott, which also have been challenged by Martins, is set for Monday.

Pursuant to the City Charter, the nomination of candidates in the election will be by independent nominating petition, rather than through a party primary.

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.

It is alleged by the complainants that the complaint specifically states Mr. Lafayette gave them wrong information challenge another candidate petitions.

The four candidates so far «committed» will begin carrying petitions on July 11, due at the Board of Elections by the 24th.

The group hopes to name a candidate by June 6, the first day nominating petitions can be circulated.

Candidates must collect signatures from at least 1 percent of a districts voters to qualify by petition and avoid paying a fee.

In the campaign, the remaining three candidates — Erycka Montoya, Yonel Letellier Sosa and Cristina Furlong — have raised significantly less funds as their petitions have been challenged by Moya, records show.

Republican Daniel Weisberg's petition to be a primary candidate on the Independence Party line has been thrown out by NY State Supreme Court Justice Linda Jamieson.

Tight lips at the Board of Elections as they work to verify signatures hurriedly BY SARA GILBERT New York State Senator David Carlucci challenged over 1,100 petition signatures gathered by Democratic candidate Grant Valentine and his supporterBY SARA GILBERT New York State Senator David Carlucci challenged over 1,100 petition signatures gathered by Democratic candidate Grant Valentine and his supporterby Democratic candidate Grant Valentine and his supporters.

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.

Ballot Access News erred when it reported that the new Florida ballot access law for minor party presidential candidates requires a petition signed by 4 % of the last presidential vote, unless the minor party is recognized by the Federal Election Commission.

The Enugu Division of the Court of Appeal yesterday adjourned to November 14, hearing in the Anambra Central senatorial election petition brought before it by the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof. Dora Akunyili, following the absence of some record of proceedings of the lower tribunal.

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.

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.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City — County executive candidate Legislator Ed Day has initiated court proceedings against Conservative Party opportunity - to - ballot candidate Simon Leschinsky, alleging petitioning irregularities.

Candidates may qualify to run for office either by paying a filing fee or by submitting a petition in lieu of the filing fee.

The Erie County Green Party said local Republican operatives co-opted its line by circulating petitions in NY - 27 for a candidate who does not represent party values.

The contents of candidate petitions are established by state law.

Inside Spitzer's petitioning party, which 1) produced only several hundreds signatures, and 2) was not attended by the candidate's wife, Silda.

Since there was way to get a definitive list of all Senate & Assembly candidates until petitions were filed last week, many candidates were probably not contacted by NY Uprising.

Conservative Party nominating petitions for county comptroller by would - be dragon slayer Jack Hayes of Gardiner, a former legislator and candidate for Assembly, were rejected by the county Board of Elections, which cited «fatal flaws.»

The Justice Ali Gumel - led panel of the Court of Appeal set aside the judgment of the National / State Legislative Houses Election Petition Tribunal in Apo, Abuja, which had dismissed the petition by the All Progressives Congress» candidate, Andrew Uchendi against Sekibo's ePetition Tribunal in Apo, Abuja, which had dismissed the petition by the All Progressives Congress» candidate, Andrew Uchendi against Sekibo's epetition by the All Progressives Congress» candidate, Andrew Uchendi against Sekibo's election.

Today marks the start of the six - week process of designating petitions, where candidates are typically joined by hordes of volunteers in collecting the required number of signatures to place themselves on the ballot for September's party primaries.

Such candidates, who would not be from any of the current parties with a ballot line in New York State through 2014, could receive the Green Party nomination and put their own line on the ballot by independent nominating petition.

This was after many signatures were ruled invalid following numerous objections to LaCorte's petition filed by the campaign of candidate David Fried.

But dissatisfied with the results declared by INEC, the APC and their candidates had filed their various petitions asking the tribunal to cancel the elections and order a rerun on account of alleged irregularities.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City — Preserve Rockland, which is running candidates for various local elections in Clarkstown, is facing a challenge to their candidates» petitions in the latest of several election season court battles.

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).

The film, which will be told in four parts, chronicles the period from the submission of the petition in 2013 by then presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo - Addo, his running - mate, Mahamudu Bawumia and Chairman of the NPP at the time, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, to the final declaration by the Supreme Court.

In regularly - scheduled elections, though, candidates who are not Republican or Democratic nominees need a petition signed by 5 % of the Read more»

Many other petitions were filed under independent party labels by candidates who will already be running as Republicans and Democrats, and these candidates will thus have their names appearing on multiple ballot lines.

In the petition, the PDP candidate, accompanied by the state Chairman, Chief Dan Orbih, asked the tribunal to declare him as the rightful winner of the election.

Unless endorsed by a party that has a slot on the ballot, a congressional candidate has to collect signatures on a petition from 1 percent of those who voted in the last election in the district.

Gulfport Democrat Jennifer Webb collected more than 1,157 signatures for inclusion on the 2018 ballot, making her first candidate in House District 69 to qualify by petition.

The petition, which was signed by Dr. Umar Duhu, Mr. Usman Iya - Abbas and Umar Sanda - Sani, alleged among other things that the party's National Secretary, Mai Mala Buni, was complicit in an alleged attempt to impose a candidate on the zone.

With the initiative method, an amendment is proposed by a petition signed by voters equal in number to 8 % of the votes for all candidates for governor at the last gubernatorial election.