Sentences with phrase «election petition went»

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It will interest you to know that the National Council of Elders of the party through the instigations of the flagbearere Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, wrote a petition to the Disciplinary Committee, to demand amongst other things that, the National Chairman, Mr. Paul Afoko, be made to step aside until after the 2016 elections which goes contrary to the party's constituetion.

DioGuardi subsequently petitioned his way onto the ballot and won the primary, but then went on to lose to Gillibrand in the general election.

Spitzer didn't go public about his run until the evening of July 7; the next morning, the Board of Elections opened the window for accepting completed petitions from candidates.

But he was defeated in a September primary by Paladino, who petitioned his way onto the ballot and then went on to lose big in the general election to Democrat Andrew Cuomo.

FAIRFIELD — With a little over a week left to go before the elections on Nov. 4th, petitioning candidate Joe Visconti finds himself under attack as some Republicans ramp up efforts to force him out of the governor's race.

Legal Practitioner, Tsatsu Tsikata, has explained that he could not support his onetime partner in law, Nana Akufo - Addo, in the election petition case, because in his view, the NPP's case for which it went to court to challenge the results of the 2012 election, was «pathetic» and lacked merit.

Kellner, who also floated the option of a charter amendment petition, which would go to the voters, said if the city failed to implement runoff voting, then it should abolish runoff elections entirely.

Wyche and McShine are among those who regularly go to the panel's meetings and in the past have filed petitions to the state education commissioner on various matters, including the outcome of board elections.

«There are a lot of invalidated signatures on that petition and the vast majority of them were because Mr. Stocker went to the same people who had already endorsed a candidate and signed a petition for another candidate,» Republican elections commissioner Ralph Mohr said.

A portion of the article reads: «On issues of pure politics, and going by which party appointed them; the way they have historically voted on political issues; and their posture and voting pattern during the Election Petition Case of 2012; and in the case of a non-unanimous decision, the majority of the current panel of the Supreme Court will likely rule in favour of the stance preferred by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in this case and the minority for the stance of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).»

Hamid also said it was wrong for people to juxtapose the jailing of the trio with those convicted during the 2012 election petition for contempt, because the trio went «beyond what the others said at the election petition about the unfairness of judges to threatening them».

If the special election goes forward in April, people familiar with the process say petitioning would begin February 1.

Dr. Kee, whose District Leader partner is Jenny L. Low who is the Board Chair of Chinese - American Planning Council, went with his wife, Virginia Kee, to file his petition at the Board of Elections.

On issues of pure politics, and going by which party appointed them; the way they have historically voted on political issues; and their posture and voting pattern during the Election Petition Case of 2012; and in the case of a non-unanimous decision, the majority of the current panel of the Supreme Court will likely rule in favour of the stance preferred by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in this case and the minority for the stance of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The Board of Elections invalidated Pelosi's Republican petitions on a technicality Wednesday, but he plans to go to court to keep that ballot line.

Ajimobi reiterated that there was no going back on the conduct of local government elections in the state in February 2017, noting that the newly created LCDAs were not perfect but that the government had started considering petitions received with a view to making necessary adjustments.