Sentences with phrase «getting ballot access»

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.

As far as is known, activists in the following states are already working on getting ballot access bills Read more»

It's also not surprising that the attempt failed miserably, not even coming close to getting ballot access across the country.

Please help the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania get ballot access petition signatures on Tuesday, May 15 — Primary Day in Pennsylvania.

In terms of ship building, we wouldn't even be able to provide a raft for people to go to because we will have failed to get ballot access in crucial states and will have lost ballot access in states where the CP is ballot qualified because we will have not provided a presidential candidate.

Not exact matches

The proxy access resolution (so named because board nominations and ballots are contained in company proxy statements) got a majority vote of 55 percent at Chevron and 49.4 percent at Exxon.

All that said, the best way for you to find out exactly what it takes to get on the primary ballot is to: (1) hire a good election law attorney, or (2) contact the Suffolk County Board of Elections and ask them to provide you with the rules for ballot access, candidate qualifications (such as residency requirements in the district), deadline dates, and filing fees.

By contrast, when the original ballot access lawsuit was filed in 2007 by three minor parties, it got no publicity at all when it was filed, and even after it won in September 2010, it got very little publicity.

Initially the party had voted not to field a presidential candidate in 1992, but it was later found that the party would need to get at least half a percent of the vote in New Mexico in order to maintain its ballot access in that state.

Ferguson is a local businessman and architect who set up his own «Bristol First» party in order to, he says, get access to electoral information and have his logo on the ballot paper.

July 20, 2011: Arkansas Green Party gets Ready to Petition to Get Back on Ballot May 11, 2011: Eighth Circuit Hears Arkansas Green Party Case May 2, 2011: Hearing Set in Arkansas Green Party Ballot Access Lawsuit

The Journal News, of Westchester County, reported on its Web site that a polling station in Hartsdale opened about two hours late because election workers couldn't get access to locked - up ballots.

Nader, who spoke in Oklahoma City about ballot access reform, said Oklahoma has one of the most restrictive requirements for third parties to get on the ballot.

We are embarking on am ambitious campaign to get party - wide ballot access in this state.

Non-partisan too, the stranglehold of the 2 big parties is so much of our problem, they control ballot access and force us all to pay for their primaries and we get to choose between the candidates they choose for us (which are basically the same).

This is a ballot access case, which challenged the North Dakota law on how a minor party candidate for the state legislature gets on the ballot.

August 9, 2011: Arkansas Green Party Loses Lawsuit Against the 3 % Vote Test to Remain on the Ballot July 20, 2011: Arkansas Green Party gets Ready to Petition to Get Back on Ballot May 11, 2011: Eighth Circuit Hears Arkansas Green Party Case May 2, 2011: Hearing Set in Arkansas Green Party Ballot Access Lawsuit

Leading Detroit Free Press: U.S. Rep. John Conyers» campaign scrambles to get him on August ballot The battle for ballot access has begun for U.S. Rep. John Conyers, the Detroit Democrat who has served in Washington for nearly 50 years.

The ballot access bill got 67 votes and the debates bill got 81 votes.

The April 1, 2012 printed Ballot Access News will contain a chart listing lawsuits that concern deadlines to get on the bBallot Access News will contain a chart listing lawsuits that concern deadlines to get on the ballotballot.

Aware that the Clinton campaign is already portrayed as dictating terms to the DNC, Baker raised the concern about making ballot access in primary states a criteria for getting on stage: If Sanders were locked out because of potential trouble qualifying in New Hampshire (given that he's not a registered Democrat), Baker was worried this would be seen as Clinton keeping him out.

The Department of Defense denied New York's most recent attempt to get a waiver from the MOVE Act, a law that is aimed at provider broader ballot access to military and overseas voters.

The way around the ballot petition process in New York is through automatic ballot access, where a political party gets fifty thousand votes for their gubernatorial candidate.

The ballot access bill is expected to get its bill number today (Tuesday, February 26).

West Virginia is one of eleven states in which a group must list a candidate on a ballot access petition; there is no other way to get on the Read more»

The law says if you achieve that, your party gets automatic ballot access until the next gubernatorial election.

New supporters, know this: only «major» political parties in Georgia (Republicans and Democrats) get automatic ballot access, state - subsidized primary elections, etc..

While there should be some minimal threshold to get a candidate on the ballot, we should err on the side of easier access rather than limiting it to a well funded and well connected few.

The case challenges North Carolina's ballot access procedure for independent candidates to get on the ballot for U.S. House.

Without fair and open access to the ballot, a few, powerful elites will control the means to get elected.

Pages 11 - 12 mention ballot access, and cite to studies and recommendations from the past that say petitions to get on the ballot should not exceed 1 % of the number of voters.

«The Carson campaign, that's now mostly about ballot access, communications, social media, and getting Dr. Carson around the country,» he said.

It has now been three days since a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles invalidated California's law on how a party gets on the ballot, and the only news sources that have reported the decision are Rick Hasen's ElectionLawBlog, and Ballot Access News, and the web page of the ACLU of Southern Califballot, and the only news sources that have reported the decision are Rick Hasen's ElectionLawBlog, and Ballot Access News, and the web page of the ACLU of Southern CalifBallot Access News, and the web page of the ACLU of Southern California.

• Winning local office • Running an ideological or educational campaign to build party presence • Ballot access • Challenging an incumbent • Raise important issues, get into the political debate

The requirement for ballot access in Virginia is 10,000, so a number above that is required in order to get enough valid signatures.

By getting involved in your local Green chapter and online, we will elect more officials, run more ballot initiatives, be visibly in solidarity with justice movements, achieve ballot access quickly, and be a network of communities resisting two - party electoral oppression.

New supporters, know this: only «major» political parties in Georgia (Republicans and Democrats) get automatic ballot access, state - Read more»

In a few states, such as Minnesota, New Jersey, and Tennessee, where ballot access is difficult to achieve, getting candidates on the ballot is relatively easy.

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.

The commission is considering easing access to the ballot for candidates by lowering the number of signatures needed to get onto the ballot - but is not ready to open access to the ballot for voters.

This appears to mean that HB 32, the ballot access bill that passed the House last year, won't get a vote in the State Senate until May at the earliest.

Virginia requires petitions, both for general election access by independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties, and also for a candidate to get on a primary ballot.

How to access and / or help collect petition signatures see we can get on the November 2014 ballot for governor will be posted within the next 72 hours.

The proxy access resolution (so named because board nominations and ballots are contained in company proxy statements) got a majority vote of 55 percent at Chevron and 49.4 percent at Exxon.