Sentences with phrase «get ballot status»

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Remember: Third parties need to get at least 50,000 votes for their gubernatorial candidates in order to maintain ballot status.

But with Cuomo's focus on getting 50,000 votes for the new ballot line — thus giving the party automatic ballot status for the next election cycle through 2016 — concerns are being stoked the WFP could lose influence and its own ballot position, currently Row D.

Unmentioned is the fact that Cuomo, whose victory over Republican Rob Astorino in November is even more likely without a WFP candidate in the race, would probably seek some sort of retaliation against the WFP — assuming, that is, that the party managed to get 50,000 votes for Teachout on its ballot line in the November general election and maintained its official status.

Presidential campaigns help achieve ballot status necessary for state Green Parties, which helps local candidates get on the ballot.

He's urging the governor to reject the party's endorsement — which Cuomo accepted in 2010 — and effectively kill the party, which must get 50,000 votes for its gubernatorial candidate in order to maintain its automatic ballot status.

The Conservative Party needs to get 50,000 votes for its gubernatorial candidate in order to preserve its official ballot status.

Lazio promised Conservative Party chairman Mike Long months ago he would remain on the line, and the big issue now is making sure the party gets enough votes to maintain ballot status (party leaders would also like to get enough to retake Row C, and push past the Independence Party).

While their status and longevity in the political process makes them known quantities — especially to the party players who will help get them on the ballot at the convention — the taint of Albany is going to be hard to shake, particularly at a time when disgust with the Capitol and anti-incumbent sentiment is running so high.

Now that the Arizona Green Party is safely on the ballot for 2012, due to successfully getting a ballot access bill through this year's legislature, Arizona Greens are now organizing a search for volunteer members who will petition to restore the Green Party's ballot status in neighbor states New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada.

Liz Benjamin wrote: «Remember: Third parties need to get at least 50,000 votes for their gubernatorial candidates in order to maintain ballot status.»

On election day, the progressive Working Families Party garnered 120,000 votes, well over the 50,000 required to maintain ballot status - although it slipped from fourth to fifth position behind the Green Party, which rode a wave of anti-Cuomo sentiment and got 175,000 votes.

If Paladino does remain in the general election on that line even if he loses the GOP primary he could block Rick Lazio from getting the 50,000 votes on the Conservative line to protect the party's ballot status.

Jay Jacobs, chairman of the Nassau Democratic Party and a former state Democratic chairman, led a charge in 2014 for Gov. Andrew Cuomo not to take the Independence ballot line, which likely would have doomed the party because it would have led to it not getting the 50,000 votes needed to give it its statewide ballot status.

This year, making a repeat run, his goal is not just to qualify for ballot status, but to get 250,000 votes, about 5 percent of the total vote

This year, making a repeat run, his goal is to not just qualify for ballot status, but to get 250,000 votes, about 5 percent of the total vote.

If a party's standard - bearer doesn't get 50,000 votes it loses its automatic ballot status, a change that's seen by many as a deadly blow.

Lower the threshold for a new political party to maintain ballot status by lowering the number of votes they must get from 2 % of the votes for Governor or President to 0.25 % of the vote for Governor, President, or any council of state office, whichever is less.

In Massachusetts, achieving ballot access actually makes getting candidates on the ballot more difficult, although having party status provides other benefits, such as listing the Libertarian Party as a choice on voter registration forms.

Nonchargeable activities: lobbying and ballot initiatives; external public relations; litigation, «unless specifically related to collective bargaining, contract administration or organizational maintenance»; get - out - the - vote activities; contributing to charitable, religious, or ideological causes; supporting political organizations or candidates for public office; organizing or recruiting new members and «defending against challenges to exclusive bargaining representative status»; and «monitoring and opposing activities of groups and individuals whose purpose is to undermine public education.»