Sentences with phrase «general election ballot because»

Not exact matches

Sources said Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Mondello likes the idea of an independent line because he thinks it might help his hometown US Senate candidate, Bruce Blakeman, in the general election against the Conservatives» nominee, former Rep. Joe DioGuardi (assuming DioGuardi doesn't succeeed in his petitioning effort to get onto the primary ballot and defeat both Blakeman and David Malpass in September).

JACKSON — Three of the Reform Party's four congressional candidates were restored Tuesday to the state's Nov. 2 general election ballot, only days after being booted off because of a dispute over the party's leadership.

The Working Families Party line has been a battleground ballot line for many candidates, especially in Rensselaer County, because the added votes it can bring in a general election often decide the outcome.

It is especially egregious for the Republican Party of Alabama to oppose letting independent and minor party candidates on the general election ballot, because the Alabama major parties have the statutory right to block anyone from running in their primaries if the party feels that the candidate is not «loyal» to that major party.

The judge ruled that the traditional primary date of the second Tuesday in September violates the rights of some New York voters, because does not leave enough time to process absentee ballots for overseas military before the general election in November.

He said if it had been so, Former President John Dramani Mahama would have easily won the 2016 general elections because he appeared more handsome than the other contenders on the ballot.

She let it be known that if she were nominated, she would withdraw from the general election, because the Progressive Party leadership wanted to have no Progressive nominee on the ballot for Governor, so as to assist the Democratic incumbent who is running for re-election.

Grasso said Tuesday he had offered the ballot line to Dickinson and Muratori, because they were incumbents, and he believed they'd earned a right to compete in the general election.

There are arguments for him waiting until the General Election to stand down anyway as MP, because increasingly the General Election isn't so far off so why inflict an unneccessary ballot on people, he might be best to leave it until there are other elections in the area and as he hasn't gone for the Bob Dole strategy of I'm heading for the White House or I'm going home then that probably wouldn't be until next year.

In fact, as the NAACP LDF lawsuit notes: «At least 629 provisional and absentee ballots (66 provisional and 563 absentee) cast in the 2014 primary and general elections by voters without the required photo ID were not counted because the voters failed to «cure» their ballots pursuant to the Photo ID Law's inadequate fail - safe procedures.»

Nov. 2004: Three people at the polls in Westchester County, NY, were given provisional ballots (in New York, «affidavit ballots») in the general election because someone had allegedly signed the poll books in their place.