Sentences with phrase «getting placed on the ballot»

WASHINGTON (AP) Candidates outside of the two major parties are struggling to get a place on the ballot in some U.S. states.

The vote is likely to trigger a leadership contest — but whether Corbyn will automatically get a place on the ballot is unclear as nobody knows for sure what they party rules are.

This past election cycle, Krogh first worked for gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio and is credited with masterminding his GOP convention strategy that blocked his would - be primary opponents, Democrat - turned - Republican Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy and Carl Paladino, from getting placed on the ballot.

Initiative 42 first got its place on the ballot after more than 200,000 residents signed a petition asking the legislature to enforce the 1997 law known as the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP), which determines the threshold funding necessary to make schools effective.

Not exact matches

Team Zimmerman had 5 Players placed on the All - Star Ballot and should get at least a couple guys eventually named to the Team.

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.

Legislation to make it easier for voters to get a bond referendum placed on the ballot was signed into law by Gov. James Thompson.

With 25,000 voters in the park district, 2,500 signatures were needed to get the question placed on the March ballot.

The Democratic convention officially gets underway in Rye this morning with a breakfast hosted by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer, who are expected to easily placed on the ballot by the party faithful.

But most places don't require signatures for the mundane process of filing to run for any office the way New York does — or, rather, they offer the choice between paying a filing fee and collecting signatures to get on the ballot.

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is set to appear on ballots in at least 39 states, and party activists are working in places such as swing state Ohio to get his name before voters this fall.

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.

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.

The poll had a «who would be your first preference as leader» question with a very long list of candidates in which Corbyn got less than a majority of support, but on a mock ballot paper against Hillary Benn, Dan Jarvis, Lisa Nandy, Angela Eagle and Tom Watson he wins comfortably on the first round (62 % support, with Benn in second place on 15 %).

While one of the goals in this election is to retain the party's place on the ballot, Hawkins is aiming to get more support to help establish the party as a voice for the left.

Jeremy Corbyn has won himself a place in the Labour leader contest after securing enough nominations to get on the ballot.

When 3,500 citizens of Clarkstown signed a petition asking for a Term Limits referendum to be placed on the 2011 ballot he insulted their intelligence by saying that anyone coming out of a supermarket «just wants to sign a piece of paper so they can get on with their lives».

«There's a mechanism in place that will make sure I'm not a third - party spoiler on the ballot come November if I don't get the Democratic Party nomination,» Wilson said.

Six states are responsible for 60 % of the total national number of signatures needed to place a new party or independent presidential candidate on the ballot in the entire nation (this calculation uses the easier method to get on the ballot in each state).

When the presidential candidate who places third consistently can't get on the ballot, something is wrong.

The three - member West Seneca Town Board got an earful from the public Monday night at its first regularly scheduled meeting since moving to place an upsizing proposition on November's general election ballot.

His campaign raised issues, including saying that ballots were not available at a polling place at Carroll Hill Elementary School; that people were discouraged from voting; that voters were asked for ID at polling places at the Rensselaer County Office Building, in which the board offices are located; that the School 12 polling place was locked with no instructions on how to get inside; and that Wiltshire poll watchers were harassed by board employees about encouraging people to cast affidavit ballots.

The pols allegedly formed an alliance built on cash payments and fraud to get Smith — one of the state's top Democrats — placed on the GOP mayoral ballot, sources said.

Certainly the virtual party got off to a promising start: It raised $ 35 million, signed up 400,000 «delegates,» and spent some $ 15 million to gather the physical signatures needed to place its presidential candidate on most states» ballots.

But is Get Out more likely to appear in second place on a large number of ballots?

But, speaking on behalf of all of those who didn't get a ballot, I can say we're not jealous, but instead thrilled that the same critical profile that once placed Trash, Showgirls, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Lickerish Quartet alongside Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, John Ford, and Carl Theodor Dreyer will be making its mark in what nearly any card - carrying cinephile recognizes as the most authoritative word on the canon.

Minnesota is pushing forward with an effort to get a constitutional amendment on the 2014 ballot putting merit selection in place for all state judges.