Sentences with phrase «gotten on the ballot on»

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.

Not exact matches

Buffett on Monday vowed to do «whatever it takes» to get out the vote in his congressional district in Nebraska, including driving voters himself to the polls to cast ballots.

Google partnered with law firm Perkins Coie to get the information for the new in - depth search tool, which lets users sort by state for info on ID requirements, deadlines, mail - in ballots, and early voting.

Over $ 1 million was raised in pursuit of legalization in Maine, much of which was spent gathering the signatures necessary to get Question 1 on the ballot.

«Airbnb was not on the ballot yesterday, the hosts were on the ballot,» said Chesky, who says he got the idea for the company, now valued at $ 25 billion, when he couldn't afford to pay his own rent.

But if neither one can garner a majority on the first few ballots, Ryan could easily get drafted as a consensus alternative with national campaign experience and a deep well of respect within the party.

Our city council put that on the ballot last election but we couldn't get the levy passed.

It's hard not to in the current climate; many candidates wouldn't get on the ballot if they didn't claim adherence to the superstition.

I don't know what church you've been going to, but my minister goes to great pains before an election to not mention ANY candidate or particular ballot issue, but instead call on the congregation to read their scriptures (suggesting some references) and pray, pray, pray for God's guidance, as they get ready to cast their vote.

If I thought drafting Mitch Daniels would get him to run, and if I thought he could really be nominated given that he has missed a bunch of filing deadlines to appear on ballots (and then there is the reality that all candidates have warts and bad days), then I would be all for drafting him or Bobby Jindal.

Put your cross on the ballot paper... or make John Buckeridge cross It was politics that triggered the only time I got mad with my good friend Phil.

With Hoffman and Guerrero getting in after previous attempts and Jones and Thome going in on the first ballot, there are fewer deserving players left out.

They got 5 Players on the All Star Ballot and deservedly so as they sport the best record in the League and have for quite some time..

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

They put 3 Players on the All - Star Ballot and will look to lean on those Players in the coming weeks to get them right during this stretch run.

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.

On the same ballot that saw Morris get 23 percent (in 2003), Alan Trammel got 14 percent.

You've got more great guys coming on the ballot and he may never get it.

Raines got in on his 10th and final year on the ballot after a methodical increase in support over the years.

As things stand now, a Tour player must be 40 and have 10 victories or two majors to get on the ballot.

While I could care less if Jack Morris, Dale Murphy, or Lee Smith eventually gets in, I'm sad Craig Biggio, Tim Raines, Alan Trammell, and especially Kenny Lofton (who fell off the ballot) aren't getting the recognition they deserve for what they did on the field, and royally pissed at how Jeff Bagwell and Mike Piazza's accomplishments are diminished when they're lumped in with PEDs users despite the fact that there's no evidence implicating either of them.

After a while, as more and more of the legends got in one way or another, it became a little easier to get in on the first ballot.

I don't want to get too irate about a ballot that has Raines and Trammell on it, mind you, but it's the first name that gets me.

Lee Smith was the only other former player to be named on a majority of the ballots, getting 51 %.

The group, headed by Du Page County Board member Michael Formento, is trying to collect 2,100 signatures in an effort to get three advisory referendum questions on the ballot.

Gurnee Park District actions this year made Eileen Fiddyment and others angry enough to circulate petitions to get a referendum question on the November ballot that will ask voters whether the district should be dissolved.

«Putting (the questions) on the ballot was a fiscally sound way to get input back from the people,» she said.

Under village law, 300 signatures, or 5 percent of the registered voters, are needed to get a referendum question on the ballot.

The group recently succeeded in getting a Park District referendum on the March 19 ballot seeking to raise $ 3 million of the $ 6 million to $ 8 million its attorneys believe is needed to buy the land.

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

Within weeks, supporters collected more than 3,000 signatures to get a referendum proposal on the March 2002 ballot to sell $ 25 million in bonds for the purchase.

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

The Oak Brook Park District joined the Glen Ellyn Park District this week in suing the Du Page County Board of Elections in an effort to get non-binding referendum proposals on the November ballot.

Still, Facebook apps have yet to revolutionize online political advocacy, though Facebook groups certainly have their political uses (alas, not enough oomph to get Stephen Colbert on the ballot).

Through personal involvement in many NY political campaigns over the past 25 years, I can tell you that getting on the ballot in NY is no easy task for outsiders (i.e., candidates not backed by a party).

Separately, you need to get on the ballot in each state.

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.

Everyone on that list is also a registered Republican, which means they would have an easier time of getting onto the ballot than Levy himself, since they won't need Wilson Pakulas.

At this point, only Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice is certain to have sufficient support (25 percent) to get on the ballot, and, at the rate things have been going, it was possible that by the time the vote rolled around on Wednesday, she would be the only one to make the convention cut.

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.

The question is, if you're a scatterbrained person and lost your mailed ballot, can you obtain a ballot on your own initiative, and if so, how much flexibility is there as far as which specific ballot you get?

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.

GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino is trying to embarrass his Democratic opponent, Andrew Cuomo, into a freewheeling debate that, in the Buffalo businessman's opinion, should include every single candidate who got on the ballot — from the Anti-Prohibition Party Manhattan Madam to the Freedom Party's Charles Barron.

The main goal of the Democratic party's field organizing is to get their supporters off their butts and to the polls, either on Election Day or (even better) beforehand — absentee ballots are field - organizing gold, since every early ballot in the bank represents a voter who WO N'T need to be hassled in person or over the phone before November 4th.

Paladino also did not receive sufficient support at the convention to get onto the ballot, but petitioned his way on instead.

There is no such thing as an «official» announcement; the only official ways to be a candidate are to get enough votes at a convention or signatures on a petition, and accept them in order to be on the ballot.

That leaves three months for candidates to gather signatures, get on the ballot, and actually campaign before the late June congressional primary (which may be separate from the state legislative primary, another travesty).

«I want to be very clear on this: Because we've had five candidates who have, over the year, worked hard to get substantial support throughout the state committee and have that support, I am going to allow a two ballot process which will end up letting all five on the ballot,» Jacobs told me this morning.

Most of Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Zephyr Teachout's more than 45,000 signatures to get on the September primary ballot came from the New York City area.