Sentences with phrase «lose ballot status»

If the WFP fails to attract 50,000 votes on its line, it will lose its ballot status — not to mention the clout it has built up over the past several years.

As Ari Paul wrote in The Jacobin, fearing it would lose its ballot status, in 2010 the WFP decided, even as the unions remained neutral, to endorse Andrew Cuomo.

The room was receptive to a proposal that the WFP run someone else for governor on Row D — a gamble, given the fact that the party risks losing its hard - won ballot placement if its candidate doesn't perform well, and could lose its ballot status altogether if the candidate fails to win at least 50,000 votes.

But the party lost its ballot status in 2002.

Not exact matches

State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long recently insisted it's the Republicans, not his party, in danger of losing their official ballot status this November, quipping: «How do you say Carl Paladino in French?

Had London managed to finish just a bit more strongly, the GOP would have lost its ballot line and been relegated to minor party status — an incident that haunts party members (those with long memories, anyway) to this very day.

If the WFP fails to hit that 50,000 mark in the governor's race, it will lose its official status and, more importantly, its 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.

A half - dozen Democrats running in local elections in Broome County — including District Attorney Gerald Mollen and Vestal town Supervisor John Shaffer — lost the WEP's ballot status following a state Supreme Court ruling

The governor's re-election campaign lost two court challenges to Teachout's ballot status on the grounds she doesn't meet the state's residency requirements and does not plan a third appeal.

WFP leaders are pushing voters to back Cuomo as a way to send him a message about liberal dissatisfaction with his first term, leading to speculation the party could lose its ballot position or overall ballot status next week.

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.

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.