Sentences with phrase «collecting voter signatures»

Petition circulators are collecting voter signatures across the state to place I - 1240 on the November ballot.

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Residents collected 1,142 signatures for a referendum to limit the board from spending more than 10 percent of its budget on capital improvements without voter approval.

Had the group failed to collect signatures from at least 15 percent of the electorate by the end of this week, the park board could have sold the bonds without voter approval.

Now Stringer is also trying to turn Spitzer's candidacy (which could very well be short lived, unless he manages to collect a sufficient number of valid voter signatures by Thursday) as a fund - raising tool.

Currently, citizens must collect written signatures from 1 % of the voting population (roughly 1.36 million voters) in order to force Congress to discuss a new law.

Under the proposed reform, voters could do so through the Internet, making collecting the required number of signatures far easier.

In Union Square, where he was slated to start collecting signatures, Spitzer talked with few voters, spending the majority of his hour - long appearance answering questions from a group of about 50 reporters.

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

He allegedly steered about $ 300,000 in funds to a Queens nonprofit, then used the group's workers to collect signatures and register voters for his 2006 campaign for the state Senate.

Jennifer Maertz, a former Democratic state Senate candidate and an activist on women's rights issues, was in Cutchogue Sunday collecting signatures and speaking with potential voters about the new party platform.

Malloy is seeking reelection in a three - way race against Republican Tom Foley and petitioning candidate Joseph Visconti of West Hartford, who collected the necessary 7,500 signatures of registered voters to gain a spot on the November ballot.

The result of the recall showed that majority boycotted the verifications on Saturday while many of those who went to the centres where the lists of voters whose signatures were collected claimed that their signatures were forged.

A coalition of Colorado business groups on Friday announced they will collect signatures to try and ask voters in November for a 0.62 percent sales tax increase to raise money for the state's billions of dollars in infrastructure needs.

Generally speaking, a candidate must collect signatures equaling at least 5 percent of the number of active enrolled voters in the political unit (e.g., the state for statewide offices, such as governor; the legislative district for state senate or assembly districts; etc.), or a fixed total established by statute, whichever is less.

Bronx DA Robert Johnson is presently pursuing criminal charges against the three Arroyo petition - gatherers who collected the petitions with forged voter signatures.

Legislators and legislative hopefuls had the last five weeks to collect signatures — a daunting task, considering the signatures must be from voters registered with the candidate's respective party and who live in their district.

Walsh will still need to collect 1,349 petition signatures from city voters, only he will do it under the Upstate Jobs name instead of something he creates.

In order to qualify for public financing, candidates must collect signatures and $ 5 contributions from 1 percent of registered voters in the city.

To qualify for the ballot, they needed to collect 3,000 signatures from registered voters in the city, and those were due on April 28, 2017.

Mondello controls a small army of party faithful that are critical to collecting tens of thousands of petition signatures in the dead of summer, along with a loyal voter base in the Town of Hempstead that can dictate control of the county at large.

Next month, Council candidates will begin circulating designating petitions to collect the signatures of voters to help get them on the September 12 Primary ballot.

Generally, campaigns only canvass if they are trying to get on the ballot of a third - party (like the Conservative or Working Families Party) with few voters or if they are having problems collecting signatures other ways.

Florida's Water and Land Legacy Campaign announced Thursday that it has collected enough signatures of Florida voters to qualify for Supreme Court review in the hopes of getting its proposed constitutional amendment onto the 2014 ballot.

State election officials had said the Democratic lawmaker had fallen short of requirements to make the ballot because two people collecting signatures for him were not registered voters, as required by state law.

Monday, the campaign was notified that it had collected the required signatures from 3,321 voters in Senate District 22 to qualify for the ballot without having to pay a filing fee.

To do that, he will need to collect petition signatures from 1,500 unaffiliated city voters this summer.

The best option now for getting the Consensus proposal on a referendum may be to collect petition signatures from voters, Mahoney said.

Voters who are not yet registered have until Feb. 9 to do so, and the candidates have until midnight Jan. 15 to collect the 1,350 signatures required to get on the ballot.

Instead, Planned Parenthood took advantage of a state law that allowed it to collect enough signatures to put the ban on the ballot and let voters decide.

Charter - school opponents, led by the Washington Education Association teachers union, then collected enough signatures to ask voters to repeal that law.

Concurrent to approval of SB 114 by the Senate Education Committee, the Secretary of State's office announced that proponents of a separate initiative calling for a $ 9 billion school facilities bond to go on the same ballot were cleared to begin collecting the signatures needed to put that measure before voters.

The group's measure was cleared in March by the Secretary of State's office for circulation, meaning supporters have until Sept. 21 to collect some 366,000 valid voter signatures needed to qualify it for the ballot.

The Voters of Arizona referendum campaign urgently needs volunteers to collect petition signatures to stop two bills damaging to animals and citizen initiative rights.

To qualify for the ballot, John Tuteur, Napa County's registrar of voters, said the group needs to collect 3,900 signatures, but advised that they collect 5,000 because, as Stevens said, «some of them will get bounced.»

Out of the total 154,082 signatures collected from registered Ohio voters, a minimum of 115,570 signatures (67 %) must certified by the Secretary of State (expected by January 6.)

On December 22, 2011, the Coalition to Ban Ohio Dog Auctions announced that 940 passionate and tireless volunteer Petition Circulators raised voters» awareness of the Ohio Dog Auctions Act (initiated statute) and collected 154,082 signatures from across all 88 Ohio counties.

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Both Floridians for Solar Choice and the Koch - tied Consumers for Smart Solar are still collecting signatures to put the question of permitting Solar Purchasing Agreements to the voters on the 2016 ballot.

«In part this is due to the absence of a platform that can securely collect the signatures of one percent of voters,» Costa says.

Such petitions in their current form present an intractable logistical problem: How to collect and verify signatures from 145 million voters across a landmass larger than the mainland United States?

In part this is due to the absence of a platform that can securely collect the signatures of one percent of voters.