Sentences with phrase «making ballots»

He also expressed support for public financing, lower contribution limits, early voting and making ballots more readable.

«If Mr. Avella doesn't make the ballot, it's because his floundering campaign couldn't get enough legitimate signatures.

After seeing Levy fail to make the ballot at the GOP convention in June, LaValle returned to Lazio's side.

NY Union Proud (NYUP), the slate of insurgent union members competing for the leadership of PEF, has gathered the requisite petition signatures needed to make the ballot.

Corbyn's team insists that he automatically makes the ballot paper, but rebel MPs believe he needs their backing.

Still, the biggest problem for many voters was the tiny type on the ballot, which many, especially elderly voters, said made the ballots extremely difficult to read.

St. Petersburg Republican Sen. Jeff Brandes» Senate District 24 re-election campaign has collected enough signatures to make the ballot.

He has not been named so my focus is on the race and getting petitions and make sure I make the ballot.»

CLPD also proposes that the threshold of support be lowered from 15 % to just 5 % of MPs and MEPs, potentially making it easier for a left - winger to make the ballot paper.

When the Islington North MP first made the ballot, after colleagues nominated him to ensure a «broad debate», many dismissed him as a token contender.

Moving into Manhattan, eight Democrats made the ballot in the 13th Congressional District.

Maggie didn't get the % of the vote to make the ballot.

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.

Because Connecticut makes ballot access ridiculously hard, Wolf has the choice of collecting more than 8,000 certified Republican signatures in less than a month or fetching the golden fleece of a winged ram from Colchis, where it hangs in an oak grove guarded by a giant serpent.

Told of the Greens» criticisms, WFP spokesman Dan Levitan was relatively gracious: «We congratulate [the Green party] on making the ballot.

Most campaigns have indicated to The Sun they have enough signatures to make the ballot, a measure that will trigger a primary election on June 26.

Assuming Eliot does make the ballot — and if it's a close call, that speaks volumes about the kind of campaign he'd run — I think this will be a lot tougher than he realizes.

But even if Paladino does win the race, the dynamic could change if McCarthy and Sampson do not make the ballot.

He failed to make the ballot, leaving the line empty.

But Astorino doesn't support holding forums that include third party candidates who make the ballot, including Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, who received more than 50,000 votes in 2010.

She did not make the ballot.

If her candidacy had support (which financial support would have indicated) then she would have made the ballot.

«If Shawn Morse makes the ballot and he's a candidate, we're going to think long and hard about him as one of our potential IDC candidates.,» he said.

«I am now aware that Governor Kasich has taken actions to make ballot access in Ohio much more difficult and costly for Libertarians,» Weld wrote.

While the court found no wrongdoing on McCarthy's part, he did have a handful of signatures on his petitions invalidated and barely squeaked by with enough to make the ballot.

State election officials had said the Democratic lawmaker had fallen short of requirements to make the ballot because two people collecting signatures for him were not registered voters, as required by state law.

He would also have needed to print petitions and obtained at least 1,250 the signatures in order to make the ballot by the April 18 deadline.

That means at least 7.5 percent of registered voters will each have to sign for individual candidates in order for all seven to make the ballot.

Democrats seeking to unseat Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) now have five weeks to obtain 1,250 signatures to make the ballot.

«I think he faces a very, very tough path to make the ballot.»

Anyone who can make the ballot is in, and the candidate who earns the most votes wins.

But the movie I really want to highlight here was one that was never going to make my ballot: Saint Laurent, Bertrand Bonello's abstract - to - a-fault biopic of the iconic fashion designer.

The hardest part of making my ballot this year was filling the last three slots, as I agonized over a half dozen films that deserved recognition on our year - end list.

We have to figure that the only reason he even made the ballot in the first place was because his character in the film — a shy busboy with a heart defect who saves a waitress from getting raped — made the ladies swoon.

In 2000, a more modest version made the ballot, but fell just short of passage with slightly over 48 percent of the vote.

And if the initiative does make the ballot, it will face formidable opposition from cities and counties, which already are complaining that Brown and the Legislature have cut social services severely and unloaded public safety responsibilities on them.

The measure is still in the signature - gathering stage but faces an uphill battle if it makes the ballot, as a recent poll by the Public Policy Institute of California showed that only 37 percent of voters view extending Prop 30 as «very important.»

I feel that if Mr. Scalzi had made the ballot, I would have had a much harder time deciding between his book, Ancillary Justice, and The Three - Body Problem.

This application will require over 430,000 voter signatures to make the ballot, but hopefully the effects of cancelling the affiliates program have generated enough outrage that the citizens will take a stand with Amazon against what it feels is a punitive violation of current sales tax legislation.

Today there are reports that the Government does not have enough of the official legal paper to make the ballots.

Democrat Theresa Greenfield's fraudulent signatures remind me of some epic previous instances of failing to make the ballot, including Michigan Republican Thad McCotter, DC Mayor Anthony Williams, and Ohio Democrat Charlie Wilson, whose campaign manager / son couldn't gather 50 valid signatures from the district.

Not exact matches

Like or hate the Million Jobs Plan — at least voters were given the information they need to make an informed decision at the ballot box.

The payments to Hunter were made before any primary ballots were cast.

Ballot measures approved in both states on Tuesday will take months to go into effect, with pot enthusiasts in Oregon having to wait until next summer to legally indulge and neither state likely to make marijuana available for commercial sales before 2016.

Losing Wisconsin won't guarantee that Trump would face a contested convention — one in which many delegates could abandon him on a second ballot — but it would make that scenario increasingly likely.

Medicaid expansion in Idaho moves closer to making November ballot Betsy Z. Russell, The Spokesman - Review

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All of this church - based political activity makes me uneasy about casting ballots in houses of worship, especially those festooned with political signs.

I'd like to present my findings from this research: first, because they're kind of interesting, and, second, so that I might redeem this semi-sordid situation by helping Ms. Tyler (who may or may not read the website of First Things, but, anyway) fill out her ballot with the names of the most distinguished and deserving individuals who have not yet made it into the 4,600 - member American Academy.

But as more and more states bring decriminalization measures to the ballot, it's important for voters to be informed not just about the use of marijuana itself, but also about the consequences of making it a crime.