Sentences with phrase «enough petitions in»

But Beloin - Saavedra, president of the city's school board, has been building a campaign organization all winter, and gathered enough petitions in the past two weeks to qualify for the primary.

Not exact matches

In that race, she stated she was confident she could «collect more than enough signatures from cadres of escorts, ex-escorts, strippers, dancers, dommes, gays, lesbians, Libertarians, Ron Paul supporters, U.S. Marines, rappers who revere the pimp and other lovers of freedom moving my petitions.

On an interesting side note, back in my fundie days, I refused to vote for the politicians that supported marriage equality and even wrote a letter to my member to that effect; the only thing I ever felt strongly enough about to actually write rather than be content just signing my name to a petition.

Enough residents of the Lockport Township Park District in northern Will County have signed petitions to force a referendum on a $ 6 million bond issue planned by park district officials to pay for not only what they say is a much - needed new golf course, but a recreation center and major renovations to the district «s other facilities.

The point is that if we get enough signatures on a petition like this then we will be in a stronger position to demand that something be done about it.

There is no such thing as an «official» announcement; the only official ways to be a candidate are to get enough votes at a convention or signatures on a petition, and accept them in order to be on the ballot.

Yes, this is the result of the official «We The People» petition site, in which everyday citizens start petitions which the Obama administration promises to reply to if enough people sign.

While it's too early to determine how solid Spitzer's lead is — it is still unclear if he will have enough petition signatures to gain ballot access — 67 percent of voters in the poll believe the former governor should be given a second chance after resigning amid a prostitution scandal in March 2008.

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

Fellow petitioner David Levin, 28, said there was no doubt in his mind that Mr. Spitzer would end the day tomorrow with more than enough petitions to make it on the ballot.

One petition which garnered enough signatures to warrant an official response was one brought in September 2011 regarding marijuana legalization.

MassResistance mounted a petition drive for a referendum to reinstate the law in October 2008, but failed to collect enough signatures.

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.

All I know is that in Europe, even in the post-Soviet countries, you can create an idea, then collect enough signatures from people (who have the right to vote), then submit the idea as proposition (they call it a petition) to the house (may that be called parliament, house, senate, congress etc), and then they will organize an election for it, and the people will vote and decide.

Luthmann was kicked off the ballot in July after the Board of Elections ruled he did not have enough signatures on his petition to run.

In 2013, Luthmann was kicked off the ballot for Borough President by the Board of Elections after it said he didn't have enough signatures on his petition.

Silver's 12 - page court claim, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court last Tuesday, alleges that Lipp didn't get enough Republican signatures on her petition to become the GOP candidate in the Assembly race.

The Board of Election in Albany ruled Tuesday, August 7 that Grant Valentine's petition for the September 13 Democratic primary was disqualified because he did not have enough valid signatures.

On June 21, a Maryland state circuit judge heard arguments in the lawsuit over whether the Green Party petition and the Libertarian Party petitions for ballot status in 2012 and 2014 have enough signatures.

Mr. Tyner is «Walking for Governor» and is seeking to get enough petition signatures to challenge Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for Governor.

Katz's move leaves him eligible to run as an independent in the fall general election if he can get enough signatures on nominating petitions.

First elected in 1964, Conyers is facing perhaps his biggest electoral challenge yet, since he learned Friday that he may not have enough signatures on his nominating petitions to qualify for the Aug. 5 ballot for the Michigan primary election.

To undercut Shelley, Mahoney's team helped Peterson collect enough petitions to challenge him in today's Conservative Party primary.

After Dadey put his name on petitions as a temporary candidate, information surfaced that he was selling his house in the city and buying a house in the suburbs (that, oddly enough, happens to belong to U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei, a Democrat and arch enemy of Dadey's.)

The Tenth Circuit had already ruled in 1984 that Colorado must let voters register into unqualified parties, if those unqualified parties are active enough to have at least qualified their nominees for the November ballot using the independent candidate petition procedure.

Republican state Sen. Mark D. Obenshain currently has a 0.0015 %, lead over Democratic state Sen. Mark Herring, 1,103,443 to 1,103,426 in unofficial results, more than close enough for Herring to petition for a recount.

But he was kicked off the ballot after failing to gather enough valid petition signatures for the Independence Party line in the November election.

On June 21, a Maryland judge ruled that the Libertarian Party had submitted enough petition signatures to gain ballot access in Maryland.

(By Thursday evening, she had turned in more than 3,200 petitions, but they will likely be challenged and whether enough will be legitimate remains to be seen.)

A slate of Long Beach City Council challengers conceded in court that they did not have enough petition signatures to force a Democratic primary next month, clearing the way for two Democratic incumbents to run in November.

If each circulates enough petitions to get on the ballot, they'll face off in a September primary.

That's his consolation prize for losing what may be the shortest State Senate race since 1991, when attorney Chris Christie filed petitions to challenge Senate Minority Leader John Dorsey in the GOP primary — only to find that he didn't file enough signatures.

In addition to Cuomo and Hochul, nine Democratic incumbent and would - be senators are submitting enough petitions to run on the line.

Saying the county's GOP committee endorsements were «rigged from the start in favor of Karen Heggen,» the Republican promised to gather enough petition signatures to keep him in the race.

The Western New York Businessman did not get enough support at the state GOP convention last month to secure a spot in the primary and mounted the petition campaign to make it happen anyway.

Somewhat similarly, in 1996 then - Secretary of State Robert Taft ruled that even though the Reform Party did not have enough signatures on its party petition by the deadline, he would waive the petition deadline, for any party (including the Reform Party) that just wanted to appear on the November ballot for President and Vice-President, but no other office.

Lawyers representing Perez Williams spent more than five hours at a hearing at the state Board of Elections in Albany, arguing that she had enough valid signatures on nominating petitions to appear on the ballot.

First, it is rare that a major party is pushed off the ballot due to signature challenges (meaning that he didn't collect enough valid signatures on his nominating petitions in order to meet the legal requirement).

This will begin to matter when there is a public petition which gains enough signatures to secure the right to a debate in parliament and then, if the government loses, nothing happens.

The candidate filed nomination petitions to run in the general election but did not submit enough valid signatures to gain ballot access.

That hurdle was too difficult for La Follette, because another Louisiana law made it too late for voters to switch parties, and there just weren't enough registered independents in Louisiana to sign the petition.

The Working Families Party and the Independent Party earned ballot access in 2010 by petitioning and then won enough votes to keep it, Harris said.

On Tuesday, her team of about 30 volunteers braved the pouring rain seeking enough petition signatures to put her on the primary ballot in September.

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According to Tinder's blog, the company has set up a petition on the ever - popular website www.change.org in hopes of garnering enough support to create emojis for interracial relationships.

In affluent and high - performing schools, PTA parents — with booster club money, political clout and enough free time — will march into the principal's office, file petitions with the district and protest until someone does something about a poorly performing teacher.

Judge Andrew Banks ruled in favor of the parents, saying that Palm Lane is subject to the law and the petition had more than enough valid signatures to be approved.

In any case, 250 of the school's 445 students are enough to push the petition through.

Pelto has threatened to go to court to gain a place on the gubernatorial ballot against Malloy, Republican Tom Foley, and petitioning candidate Joseph Visconti, but Pelto said in an interview that a potential court fight on disputed signatures might be fruitless if he is not close enough to the threshold.

The petition is being run by the League Against Cruel Sports and if it attracts enough signatures it is hoped the issue will be debated in Parliament and bring about a much - needed change in the law.