Sentences with phrase «n't placed on the ballot»

The minimum - wage campaign should at least give them greater relevance in the national Democratic conversation, if not a place on the ballot.

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Off topic but I am posting here... by taking voters off the voter roles, it not only disenfranchises them on election day, it takes them off the direct mailings that remind people to vote, including sample ballot, polling places, etc..

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

The site of their ministry is not the institution but the house where they live, the place where they work, and the political communities represented on the ballots in their voting booths.

I placed theBroncos fifth on my final ballot, up four places from their No. 9 ranking inthe previous poll and just ahead of Louisville (12 — 1), whose Orange Bowlvictory over Wake Forest did not carry the same cachet as Boise's postseasonwin, and Wisconsin (12 — 1), which didn't have to play Ohio State because of theBig Ten schedule rotation and gained only 201 yards in its Capital One Bowl winover Arkansas.

Some BBWAA members will simply not give a pitcher even a 10th - place vote on an MVP ballot.

On August 14th, the Park Board of Commissioners voted to place a referendum question on the November 6 general election ballot asking voters to choose whether or not to support a $ 39 million bond issuOn August 14th, the Park Board of Commissioners voted to place a referendum question on the November 6 general election ballot asking voters to choose whether or not to support a $ 39 million bond issuon the November 6 general election ballot asking voters to choose whether or not to support a $ 39 million bond issue.

Park Board attorney Bruno Tabis told the board that it might not have the authority to place a referendum question on a ballot because it doesn't have home - rule powers and that authority is denied by statewide park district code.

While New Trier and the park district have yet to make a final decision of whether or not to place the referendum requests on the November ballot, officials from both organizations said they are talking to each other and understand the potential challenges of asking voters to support two measures in one election.

The questioner doesn't go on to explore questions such as when and how the vote would take place, what should be on the ballot paper, and whether abandoning Brexit altogether should be an option.

He and Bruce Blakeman were placed on the ballot at the GOP convention, but DioGuardi, who had been endorsed by the Conservative Party, did not.

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.

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Thorsen claimed that the signatures in the petitions were insufficient and therefore Weisberg should not be placed on the ballots for those parties.

Both bills make it almost impossible for a new party, or an old minor party that doesn't have FEC recognition, to place a presidential nominee on the ballot.

To ensure fairness, the Committee did not endorse Town Board candidates and I worked with County GOP Chair Roger Rascoe to guarantee each candidate's place on the September 12 primary ballot.

At a joint press conference Lords Clarke, Heseltine, Mandelson and Patten complained that Britain's place in Europe and not Labour's record was the question on the referendum ballot paper.

Parties that are not ballot - qualified can still place their presidential nominees on the November ballot, with the party label, if they submit 4,000 signatures by early September.

When placed on the back of the ballot, too many voters will not see it and will lose their constitutional right to correct state government.

«You may not know Jerry Zandstra, but all of you have a «Jerry Zandstra» in your state: someone who decides, out of the blue, to seek statewide office; pursues that office through less than honorable tactics; fails to collect the minimum number of signatures to even be placed on the ballot; and then blames the State Party and its chairman for his failures,» Anuzis wrote in his response.

After casting his ballot at his Mount Kisco polling place, Cuomo said «angry taxpayers» who have the highest property tax bills in the country are passionate about his leadership, even if they aren't as outspoken as liberals who protest on issues like the environment and socioeconomic justice.

While turnout fell heavily in places where all - postal ballots were held in 2004 but not this year, elsewhere support fell on average by only a point or so.

The outcome of the primary then will be decided by 103 absentee ballots and an undetermined number of affidavit votes — votes cast by voters whose eligibility to vote could not immediately be determined at the polling place — which will be counted at the Ulster County Board of Elections on Wednesday Sept. 21, starting at 10 a.m. Absentee ballots needed to be postmarked by Sept. 13 and received no later than Sept. 21.

«I don't even know if the state Constitution provides that... those plans could be placed on the ballot just because we want to,» he said.

Michael Gove is not giving up yet, and another ballot of Tory MPs will take place on Thursday.

«If we are not placed back on the ballot, please write my name in,» Davis said.

A candidate may have his or her name placed on the general election ballot as an independent candidate if he or she is not affiliated with a political party.

It means there will be a place on the ballot for women and women's families and women's supporters to make a statement that our rights matter, to make a statement that New York — a place that was the birthplace of the women's rights movement — it's not OK that in this state we don't have a Women's Equality Act.»

Hawkins» announcement did not say if he will attempt to obtain a place on the ballot.

Turner's request asks for all unscanned ballots, all ballots not counted and reasons why, all scanned ballots placed on a DVD, every ballot ruled invalid by the Board of Elections, and all absentee ballots and ballots cast at the BOE.

«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.

«We will not succeed in placing Green candidates on the Georgia ballot without the participation of citizens willing to carry our ballot access petitions,» said Al Herman, Secretary - Treasurer of the Georgia Party.

But the petition requirements for legislature aren't too restrictive, so in 2012 both the Constitution Party and the Socialist Party placed one or two legislative candidates on the November ballot.

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

But looking at places where Obama lost to Hillary Clinton can also be instructive when it comes to understanding how the President, who is not on the ballot this fall, will nonetheless impact the fight for congressional control.

The ballots themselves will not have any personal information on them, and people will still check in at their polling places in the same manner they do now.

The 22 affidavit ballots are for voters whose names were not on lists at polling places and whose eligibility was verified afterward by elections officials.

«However, because of pending deadlines for parties to formally place alternate candidates on the ballot, I simply am not willing to take a chance that Ken LaValle and his incompetent political agenda would run unopposed for a second straight election should my further appeals fail.»

The Coleman campaign has pointed to some that were rejected for technicalities like signatures on the ballot that don't match the signature on the ballot application, stickers that were accidentally placed askew on the ballot covering a signature, and instances where voters have occasionally signed below a signature line as opposed to on it.

Because the overwhelming majority of primary voters are not interested in choosing a minor party's primary ballot, and instead choose one of the major party primary ballots, the effect is that minor parties can never place nominees on the ballot for state legislature.

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.

If the no. 1 vote - getter did not receive 50 percent of the vote, the bottom vote - getter is eliminated and the second - place votes on the ballots that listed the ousted movie first then slide up and are dispersed to become no. 1 votes across the rest of the nominees.

Liked: to place high on a ballot even if it isn't # 1.

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.

On Sept. 3, the Florida Supreme Court reversed the trial judge's decision and held that the amendments may not be placed on the ballotOn Sept. 3, the Florida Supreme Court reversed the trial judge's decision and held that the amendments may not be placed on the balloton the ballot.]

It will mark the last time school boards will be able to place ballot questions before voters on a date that doesn't coincide with a regularly scheduled election under new restrictions enacted as part of the 2017 - 19 state budget.

Pelto has threatened to go to court to gain a place on the gubernatorial ballot against Malloy, Republican Tom Foley, and petitioning candidate Joseph Visconti, but Pelto said in an interview that a potential court fight on disputed signatures might be fruitless if he is not close enough to the threshold.

Despite arduous efforts by CCSA, the Oakland Unified School Board voted in June to place a $ 475 million bond measure on the November ballot that does not specifically include charter schools.

Sweepstakes, Breed and Match judge nominees whose names are placed on the annual ballot shall be asked to submit to the Corresponding Secretary by June 15th, a resume of not more than 250 words detailing experiences in breeding, showing and judging for inclusion in the annual ballot sent to OESCA members.

Just as the secret ballot system relies on anonymity to prevent individuals from being pressured by others during the act of voting, the peer review system depends on anonymity to prevent reviewers from having to think about how their statements would be viewed by a much larger audience — an audience for which the review is not intended in the first place.