Sentences with phrase «get on the ballot line»

The group American's Elect is attempting to get on the ballot line for the presidential election, even though they don't have a candidate yet.

You've gotten us on the ballot line twice»,» he said.

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But they didn't love the idea of losing control over who gets to run on their ballot line, which they — through gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins — worked so hard to secure in the 2010 campaign.

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.

He also promised «an awful lot of people are going to get hurt in the process» if legislative leaders go along with the governor's idea of scrapping third party officials» power to hand - pick who runs on their ballot lines — a pledge that no doubt sent shivers up the spines of not a few Senate Republicans.

Paladino is hoping to get onto the GOP ballot, which he can do without a Wilson Pakula, and also would like to run on the Conservative line, although that seems far - fetched since the party's executive committee has already endorsed Rick Lazio.

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.

The Wilson Pakula threshold for anyone not enrolled in the party who wants to run on the line, as you'll recall, is just over 50 percent of the weighted convention vote — more than twice the 25 percent necessary for party members to get onto the ballot.

As you'll recall, after failing to get onto the ballot at the GOP convention in early June, Levy insisted (contrary to statements made by his chief champion, state Republican Chairman Ed Cox), that he was still contemplating a run on an independent line.

McGuire said the NYCF PAC did not get involved in the Grisanti race during the primary, but will now engage on behalf of «pro-family candidate» Chuck Swanick, the former Erie County legislator who lost his primary bid for the Democratic line to attorney Mike Amodeo, but remains on the November ballot on the Conservative Party line.

The five states in which it operates (New York, Connecticut, South Carolina, Vermont, and Oregon) all have enacted «fusion voting» — a system in which each party that qualifies gets a spot on the ballot — in some states its own line with a check box — where it can list the candidate it favors, regardless of party.

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.

The National Federation of Independent Business» Mike Elmendorf today released a letter to the Working Families Party's Can Cantor, urging an «open dialogue» about how to achieve the reforms the labor - backed party endorsed when it backed Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo's «New New York Agenda» in order to get him to run on its ballot line.

The PC, which has no teeth in the way of jobs or ballot lines in the way that the county chairs do, must promote itself as moving inexorably forward: get on board or be on the losing side of history.

For those very bureaucratic reasons, Donovan's petitions to get on the ballot could be thrown out, and he could lose the Reform Party line.

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.

After speeches, registered Gardiner Democrats in attendance will cast their ballots and the winners will get the party's nomination and be placed on the Democratic line on the November ballot.

Phil Marius had 774 of his 1,216 invalidated for his petition to appear on the ballot, leaving him only eight short of the required 450 to get on the Democratic line.

But state Board of Elections spokesman John Conklin on Friday said that 1,448 of the 4,132 signatures Russo submitted were found to be invalid by a bipartisan team at the board responsible for reviewing petitions, putting Russo below the 3,000 signatures he needed to get on the independent ballot line.

However, the Sixth Circuit did grant the state's request for a stay of the U.S. District Court order that said there must be a random procedure to give each party an equal chance to get the top line on the ballot.

Also, a petition was filed at the Suffolk County Board of Elections to create an opportunity to ballot for the Women's Equality party line in the 1st Congressional District on the East End, where Democrat Anna Throne - Holst has gotten the minor party's nod.

Perhaps the most value the WFP offers is an actual line on the ballot come election time: In New York and seven other states, candidates can run with the endorsement of multiple parties, and Democrats who also run on the WFP line get the help of the party's ground troops and the coveted imprimatur of being a progressive candidate.

Come general election time, the Green Party's Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones got more votes than Cuomo did on the Working Families Party line, pushing the WFP down a spot on the ballot.

I had planed on voting for Howie Hawkins to give a line to the Green party (although admittadly so they would be a thorn in the Dem side to balance out the Conservative thorn on the Republican side) but just to show how this kind of crap can backfire, I'll be doing all I can to help the Lerertarians get a permanent line on the ballot.

After the chairman's preferred gubernatorial candidate, former Rep. Rick Lazio, lost to Carl Paladino in last September's GOP primary, the Conservatives got behind the Buffalo businessman, who went on to win enough votes on their line to boost them to Row C on the ballot.

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).

When activists in the Working Families Party attempted to run Teachout as their candidate on the WFP ballot line this coming November, Cuomo cut a deal to push the party's agenda and get the line himself.

He'll either have to fight an uphill battle for a Republican nomination, seek a third party nod, or form his own ballot line to get on next November's ticket.

If Gallo loses the Democratic primary and fails to get on another party line, he would be left off the ballot entirely in November.

Riverhead Republican Committee chairman Mason Haas said many members of his group oppose the implementation of Common Core and are helping with Mr. Astorino's petition effort to get the new party line on the ballot.

Nonetheless, he jumped into bed with them this year — just to get an extra line on the ballot for his re-election.

Special elections for state seats — like the one Gov. Andrew Cuomo scheduled in Harlem for May 23 — do not have an open primary: instead, the county committee, a panel of party insiders, selects who gets to run on the ballot line at a formal nominating convention.

Some appointed committee heads, who are charged with determining which candidate goes on the ballot line, have chided Cuomo for only getting a watered down version of a taxpayer - funded public financing system.

All the candidates who got committee endorsements Wednesday aren't guaranteed lines on the ballot for the September primary.

Special elections, like the one scheduled to replace the convicted lawmaker on April 19, do not have open primaries: instead, the county committee, consisting of operatives elected within the party, chooses who gets the ballot line.

New York allows a single candidate to be on multiple lines on the ballot, and Balter is on track to get the nomination of the Working Families Party.

Then, he failed to file the paperwork required to actually get himself on the ballot, leaving the Democrats with an empty line.

The bomb - throwing Buffalo builder got enough votes on the Conservative line in his disastrous gubernatorial campaign against Democrat Andrew Cuomo to secure the No. 3 spot on the ballot for the right - leaning political party, which had once been written off by political observers.

There's also going to be a Reform Party primary in the district, letting him get on the ballot on that new minor party's line if he can convince a majority of the district's three registered Reform members to write his name in.

By calling the elections now, the party leaders can control who gets on the major lines of the ballot.

Losing two rungs on the ballot ladder doesn't seem to be enough for them... instead, McKay gets to singlehandedly sell out the party line to a partisan crony.

Sure, it had been a complicated few weeks as Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Working Families Party, bitter codependents, tried to agree on a deal that would give Cuomo the WFP's ballot line this fall in exchange for the governor's publicly pledging to get behind a progressive policy agenda.

New York state election law allows candidates to run on multiple party lines, letting candidates like Cuomo and Astorino get their names on the ballot more than once while appealing to specific voter segments.

Hence in my yet unresolved struggle with the Iowa GOP over getting a ballot line on the Ames Straw Poll, very helpful an Israel News Service story about the issue made me the # 1 Google search result the past couple of days for «Ames straw poll».

To get a line on the ballot, much less near the top, is not easy.

So after both parties refused to support him, he was able to get his name on two ballot lines, The Independence line, as well as a hybrid Upstate Jobs / Reform Party line.

Once the WFP folds and endorses the Governor, this sets up Mr. Hawkins as the progressive on the ballot and ensures the Greens get the 50,000 votes to remain a party, and they could conceivably get to the D line if Andy on the WFP and Indy lines goes flat.

New York allows candidates to run on multiple party lines, and the new party gives Cuomo and other Democrats a way to advertise their support — while getting their name on the ballot an additional time.

Not much, given that the 120,000 votes cast for Mr. Cuomo on the WFP line, while well clear of the threshold of 50,000 needed to assure that it remained on the ballot, resulted in its being dropped from the fourth to the fifth position, behind the Green Party, which got three times as many votes for Mr. Hawkins this time as in 2010.