Sentences with phrase «national ballot»

There would be no separate sections in the ballot: the votes of party members, affiliated supporters and registered supporters would all count for exactly the same in a single national ballot.

In 1981, when he was acting as adviser to then New Jersey gubernatorial candidate (later Governor) Tom Kean, the RNC assembled a ballot security force consisting of off - duty law enforcement officers wearing armbands that read «National Ballot Security Task Force» that was alleged to have engaged in voter intimidation in minority neighborhoods of Newark, Camden, Paterson, and other cities.

You know how I'm always belaboring the point that an undifferentiated national ballot doesn't elect a president, 50 individual states do?

Tobin, who ran for California Secretary of State in 2010 — garnering more than 214,000 votes as the Libertarian nominee — had served as Ralph Nader's national ballot access coordinator during the 2008 presidential campaign, a year when the feisty consumer activist, seeking the brass ring for the final time, appeared on the ballot in 45 states and the District of Columbia.

Since 1900, New Yorkers have been on 16 of the 30 national ballots as presidential or vice presidential candidates, Dearstyne said.

The victory was mainly strategic for Cruz since all 58 Arizona delegates are required to vote for Trump on the first national ballot because he won the state's primary.

The number represents almost a third of the union's membership in civil and public services and comes ahead of a possible national ballot over pensions and job cuts, which PCS hopes to co-ordinate with other public sector unions.

Bottom line: Rangel, as well as a lot of others in Congress, would never be so entrenched if we had term limits and that concept should be on the next national ballot!

In 1993, Harriet was elected by a national ballot of Labour Party members to the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Labour Party and was re-elected each year till Labour came into government and she became a minister.

In a national ballot 61.1 % of PCS's quarter of a million civil and public service members voted for a strike and 83.6 % voted for other forms of industrial action, on a 32.4 % turnout.

Nader also advocates that Congress pass a national ballot Read more»

But realpolitik always made it obvious to informed non-prophets that no two of the ethnic tripod of Nigerian politics could bind together without carrying theday of national ballot.

The PCS Union, which represents civil service workers, has never achieved such a turnout on a national ballot.

Last month the Royal Mail condemned the Union's decision to hold a national ballot, arguing it was «totally unjustified».