Sentences with phrase «from getting on the ballot»

-- Lynn Krogh, a former Pataki administration aide who worked until the bitter end with Paladino's vanquished GOP primary foe, Rick Lazio, and was widely praised for her vote counting operation that blocked Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy from getting on the ballot at the convention.

The 12.5 % threshold proved enough to prevent the left - winger, John McDonnell, from getting on the ballot.

That support could enable her to block at least two of her four primary rivals from getting on the ballot when Democrats hold their convention in Rye on May 25 - 27.

The former New York governor claims a group of Democrats is trying to prevent him from getting on the ballot for city comptroller.

Mermel recently released a spreadsheet that shows he has the endorsements of GOP county chairs accounting for over 67.97 percent of the weighted convention vote, which would theorectically block anyone else from getting on the ballot.

Lazio's campaign has been faltering for some time, and failed to receive a bounce — either in the polls or in fundraising — after he successfully blocked Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy from getting on the ballot at the state convention in June.

Justice Emilio Colaiacova rejected on Thursday a petition from town Democratic leaders who were trying to block Jaeger, a Conservative, from getting on the ballot as a Republican candidate.

Not exact matches

But Tech is on 70 of 76 ballots, and WVU is on 74 of 76; even if Texas Tech had gotten four No. 18 votes from those six remaining ballots, instead of none (yes, the No. 18 team got zero 18th - place votes), it would only have shaved about half a point off WVU's edge.

«Putting (the questions) on the ballot was a fiscally sound way to get input back from the people,» she said.

Not surprisingly, state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long is not at all pleased with the talk in Albany these days of going away with so - called fusion voting by repealing or amending the Wilson - Pakula statute that requires candidates who aren't enrolled in a particular party to get permission from that party's leaders to run on their ballot line.

GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino is trying to embarrass his Democratic opponent, Andrew Cuomo, into a freewheeling debate that, in the Buffalo businessman's opinion, should include every single candidate who got on the ballot — from the Anti-Prohibition Party Manhattan Madam to the Freedom Party's Charles Barron.

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).

Most of Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Zephyr Teachout's more than 45,000 signatures to get on the September primary ballot came from the New York City area.

He's convinced this plan was, as he put it, «born on the floor of the (GOP) convention to punish or get even with the Conservative Party» for holding its convention first, tapping Rick Lazio as its gubernatorial candidate and helping him to block Cox's preferred candidate, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, from getting on the GOP primary ballot.

Lazio was the only candidate to get onto the ballot at the convention, but Carl Paladino went on to cream him in the GOP primary and he «ran» for a Bronx judgeship to get off the Conservative line and cede it to the businessman from Buffalo.

Dell Smitherman, a former Local 1199SEIU political director, filed petitions with 4,000 signatures — four times the number required to get on the ballot — to take on Sampson, who was indicted for allegedly stealing from housing escrow accounts and making false statements.

At least 10 and perhaps as many as 18 hopefuls are currently petitioning to get on the ballot, and a number of prominent District 7 candidates have found themselves living not just in adjoining districts, but two districts away from the people they plan to represent.

But the bill would also decrease the number of signatures needed to get on the ballot: 375 for the Assembly, down from 500, and 750 for the Senate, down from 1,000.

To get on the ballot you simply need to collect signatures: five percent of the active registered Democrats in that particular election district, or anywhere from 15 to 50 signatures.

(Remember that the Conservatives had their convention before the GOP in hopes of helping Lazio block Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy from garnering sufficient support to get on the ballot — a gambit that ultimately worked).

I believe that one of my other answers has a link to the electio laws of each of the states (need to find it), and from there you can see the minimum requirements to get your name on a ballot in a state.

An NYPD detective who was disqualified from challenging a GOP - backed candidate for a Nassau legislative seat because of a petition error has filed an 11th - hour appeal seeking to get on the ballot.

Also, recall that the RNC isn't going to be giving federal Victory funds for the statewide GOTV effort to the state party due to a lack of confidence in Cox, stemming in part from his failed effort to woo party - switching Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy into the governor's race and get him on the ballot.

The WFP gets its own line in a prime place on a New York state ballot, and if they'd put another candidate on it, that would have siphoned away significant votes from Cuomo in the general.

Any candidate would need to submit 1,250 signatures from registered Democrats by April 12 to get on the primary ballot.

A former economist at Bear Stearns, David Malpass, 54, received enough votes from the Republican Party's state committee to get on the primary ballot.

But if Labour does lose heavily in June, the actual number of nominations the Corbynites would need to get a candidate on the ballot would drop - from 15 % of Labour's current 229 MPs and 20 MEPs to 15 % of fewer MPs and MEPs.

«As I've petitioned with my volunteers to get on the ballot, I've heard from voters about their priorities and concerns.

To get on the ballot, a candidate must have the endorsement of 200 members from 20 local party organisations as well as 10 % of the parliamentary party, which amounts to needing the support of less than one of the eight remaining Lib Dem MPs.

Party donor Michael Foster launched legal action after Labour's National Executive Committee voted to put Mr Corbyn on the ballot without needing to get 51 nominations from Labour MPs and MEPs.

Tomorrow's NEC meeting will rule on whether the Labour leader will need to get nominations from 51 MPs so he can stand in the leadership election, or whether he goes on the ballot automatically.

CORONA — The crowded race for Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland's seat has seen candidate donations from local unions and elected officials — while grass - roots candidates say they're limited in how much money they can raise while they struggle to get on the ballot.

There is a concerted effort by a wide range of interests to get New York voters to approve Proposition Three on the November ballot two weeks from now.

The Sunday Politics spoke to the other 10 who will also be on the ballot paper for voters to choose from, as they get a chance to make their case.

Candidates who don't get the party designation will have to find 1,000 signatures from party members to appear on the ballot.

With relatively little work (approx 1 day) to get on the ballot, you can become an elected official and directly influence the democratic party and begin to effect change from the bottom up.

Two gun safety groups in Maine are getting more than $ 3 million from a nonprofit backed by former New York City Mayor Bloomberg in preparation for a big gun control measure on the November ballot.

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More than a dozen of them were convicted of charges including authorizing bribes to get on a ballot, diverting money meant for community programs into a campaign and skimming funds from contributions to a Little League baseball program.

Could the depth of their support make it difficult for a candidate such Kendall to gather the 35 nominations from MPs needed to get on the ballot paper?

«Our campaign attracted volunteers from all corners of the district to help a true outsider get on the ballot in order to give voters a real choice in June.

Not long after polls opened, Aadahl said he began to get word that poll workers at one New Paltz voting site were denying affidavit ballots to those who requested them on orders from elections board officials.

To get on the ballot, a candidate must have the endorsement of 200 members from 20 local party organisations as well as 10 % of the parliamentary party, though the latter requirement equates to less than one of the eight remaining Lib Dem MPs.

Political insiders say the Bronx County Democratic Committee — which opposed Blake's election in 2014 and tried to get him booted from the ballot on the grounds that he hadn't lived in New York long enough — is not enthusiastic about his candidacy.

With much interest from possible Republican candidates, a September primary is also likely, pitting multiple candidates against one another to get on the general election ballot in November.

Nicoletti will need 24 signatures from registered party members to get on the ballot.

''... should include every single candidate who got on the ballot — from the Anti-Prohibition Party Manhattan Madam to the Freedom Party's Charles Barron.»

The first, held by the leader's office, is that he won't have to get nominations from MPs to stand again and will be on the ballot paper automatically.

In response, Rockland Democratic Party Executive Director Theodore Collins, himself disqualified from an effort to get on the ballot in the Spring Valley trustee race, hit back hard against Lacorte, pointing out the candidate declined to participate in a pre-filing review of his petitions offered through the County Democrats.

A juror cut loose Friday from the corruption trial of ex-Councilman Dan Halloran said he would have found the accused pol guilty of brokering bribes to get Sen. Malcolm Smith on the Republican mayoral ballot last year.