Sentences with phrase «congressional primary ballot»

ALBANY — Some Republican votes in Columbia County will have to be counted by hand because the name of a third candidate — Bob Bishop — incorrectly appeared on the congressional primary ballot, officials told POLITICO New York.

The comments are in response to the DCCC's apparent effort to get Perez Williams, who ran unsuccessfully for Syracuse mayor last year, on the Democratic congressional primary ballot.

Not exact matches

The bill comes after U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe declared June 26 as the primary for Congressional races in order for the state to comply with a law governing timely access to military and overseas ballots.

That leaves three months for candidates to gather signatures, get on the ballot, and actually campaign before the late June congressional primary (which may be separate from the state legislative primary, another travesty).

«In preparation for the upcoming September primaries for the Republican and Conservative Party ballot lines, our Congressional campaign team is shifting some personnel,» Cox stated.

The duel primary structure dates back to a 2012 ruling in which a federal judge moved the state's congressional - level primary to June in order to comply with the federal MOVE Act, which requires timely access to military and overseas absentee ballots.

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.

Rachel Barnhart, one of the people seeking the Democratic nomination for the congressional seat previously held by Louise Slaughter, says she has secured the required number of signatures to get on the primary ballot.

With 100 percent of machine votes counted, Anna Throne - Holst, the former Southampton Town supervisor, maintained a razor - thin lead over David Calone in Tuesday's Democratic primary election to represent New York's First Congressional District, and the race will come down to absentee ballots.

Barring any challenges, Juanita Perez Williams will appear on the June 26 Democratic primary ballot in the 24th Congressional District.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is taking sides in a crowded California primary in the 48th District, backing businessman Harley Rouda, in an attempt to avoid a nightmare scenario of being shut out of the November ballot.

Last Thursday's deadline to file petitions to be on the ballot in the June 26 Democratic primary election for New York's First Congressional District has claimed one victim.

That person then could get off the congressional ballot once the winner of the June 26 Democratic primary is determined.

Green Party congressional candidate Matt Funiciello said Tuesday he has secured enough signatures to get on June 24 primary ballot, but his campaign will continue to circulate petitions as a safeguard against any signatures that might be challenged and to show the strength of the campaign.

Martins said the congressional race needed to be moved back if the primary was delayed to allow absentee ballots to get to military voters overseas and to allow him to fully campaign against the Democrat in the race, Thomas Suozzi of Glen Cove.

In fact, because congressional elections look likely to have a separate primary election date from other elections this year, Mr. Jeffries» election may very well be the only contested race on the ballot in the district.

Democrats trying to force Juanita Perez Williams off the ballot in the 24th Congressional District claimed Monday that more than 2,400 signatures on her nominating petitions are not valid, and should be enough to disqualify her from a Democratic primary.

(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.)

Perez Williams said the DCCC supplied a small number of paid canvassers to help her gather signatures from Democratic voters in the 24th Congressional District that are required to make it onto the primary ballot.

Rachel Barnhart announced today she has secured the required number of signatures to get on the ballot for the Democratic primary for the 25th Congressional District, as well as a sufficient number of additional signatures to withstand legal scrutiny.

The new primary rules create an open congressional primary (voters can cross party lines and vote for whomever they choose) however, only the top two vote getters advance to the November ballot.

Three days after Perez Williams contributed to Balter's campaign, she began circulating petitions to secure a spot on the Democratic primary ballot in the 24th Congressional District.

Congressional primary day brought ballot troubles in the race for New York's 19th District when a third name was incorrectly listed on ballots in Columbia County.

Congressional contender Jon Kaiman on Monday asked the state Board of Elections to throw opponent Thomas Suozzi off the Democratic primary ballot in the 3rd District, claiming more than half the petition signatures that Suozzi submitted were not valid.

As the midterm congressional primaries heat up amid fears of Russian hacking, 1 in 5 Americans will be casting their ballots on machines that do not produce a paper record of their votes.

The resolution is in response to the U.S. Department of Justice's request to a federal judge to order the state to move its congressional primary to no later than Aug. 18, in order to comply with a federal law requiring absentee ballots be sent to members of the military no less than 45 days prior to the Nov. 6, 2012 general election.

Tenney, a state Assemblywoman from New Hartford, had attempted to have Phillips, a Broome County history teacher, thrown off the ballot in the Republican primary in the 22nd Congressional District.

About 16 percent of active Republican voters in the 21st Congressional District cast a ballot in the Republican primary on Tuesday, in which c...

Trump won't be on the ballot in tomorrow's congressional primaries, but that has not stopped many of the Democratic contenders from using his face and most incendiary statements in their campaign mailings.

NEW YORK CITY — The races were among the most hotly contested in recent memory, but few New Yorkers came out to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots in the state's Congressional primaries.

Tenney received a boost when the state Board of Elections removed Tea Party activist Michael Kicinski from the GOP primary ballot in the 22nd Congressional District after ruling his nominating petitions invalid.

The issue started with the U.S. Department of Justice's request to a federal judge to order the state to move its congressional primary to no later than Aug. 18, in order to comply with a federal law requiring absentee ballots be sent to members of the military no less than 45 days prior to the Nov. 6, 2012 general election.

Capital Tonight April 10, 2018 Spectrum News Petitions are due this week for congressional candidates who want to be on the ballot in the June primary.

But there aren't expected to be many undecideds at the polls, since the congressional primary will be the only race on Tuesday's ballot.

Martins had argued that military and overseas voters wouldn't be assured of getting their printed ballots by the Nov. 8 traditional election, just a month after the Republican primary in the 3rd Congressional District.

The New York State Board of Elections ruled Thursday that congressional candidate Juanita Perez Williams has enough petition signatures to appear on the June primary ballot.

David Calone and Anna Throne - Holst, the candidates in the Democratic primary in the 1st congressional district, girded for a paper ballot count, with only 29 votes separating them after Tuesday's vote.

Last month, the state bumped Congressional primaries up from September to June, to assure that troops stationed abroad will receive absentee ballots in time, reports the Times.

Presumed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump won't be on the ballot in Tuesday's local congressional primaries, but that has not stopped many of the Democratic contenders from using his face and most incendiary statements in their campaign mailings.

Republican congressional contender Christopher Cox last week began circulating petitions to wage what's called an «Opportunity to Ballot,» aimed at setting up a write - in primary Sept. 14 against Randy Altschuler, the minor party's designee.

Some Libertarian and Green Party congressional candidates were on their own party's primary ballot for various U.S. House seats.

We'll be petitioning to help her get on the ballot starting next week, and encouraging all Democrats in her district to vote for her in the congressional primary on June 24.

The Onondaga County Democratic Committee has taken the first step in a process that could force Juanita Perez Williams off the ballot and prevent a Democratic primary in the 24th Congressional District.

Local Democrats have been trying to force Perez Williams from the ballot to avoid a primary with their designated candidate, Dana Balter, in the 24th Congressional District.

Hearing officers with the New York State Board of Elections have ruled that Democratic congressional candidate Juanita Perez Williams has enough signatures, by a slim margin, to be on the primary ballot.

Nineteen Democratic congressional primaries had at least one woman on the ballot.

To qualify for the primary ballot, Democratic presidential contenders need a minimum of 5,000 signatures, as well as 500 signatures from each of the state's 27 congressional districts to field delegate slates.

A court ruled that New York move its congressional primaries to June this year, instead of September, to comply with a federal law that gives those in the military time to return their general election ballots.

David Calone and Anna Throne - Holst, the candidates in the Democratic primary in the 1st congressional district, girded Wednesday for a paper ballot count, with only 29 votes separating them after Tuesday's vote.

(CNN)- Election officials counting previously untallied ballots in a New York congressional Democratic primary say incumbent U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel is expanding his lead over his top challenger, who went to court last week to ensure counting would continue.