Sentences with phrase «nominating petitions»

"Nominating petitions" refer to a process where individuals collect signatures from people who support their candidacy for a specific position or office. It is a way of formally declaring one's intention to run for a particular role and demonstrates public support for their candidacy. Full definition
Challengers will have to get enough signatures on nominating petitions of their own to get a spot on the primary ballot.
Monday was the last day for candidates to file nominating petitions for the April 13 election, which will feature races for various village positions as well as contests for school boards, park district boards and library boards.
The signature of a woman who died two years ago has turned up on nominating petitions of state Sen. David Storobin (R - Brooklyn), who is seeking re-election.
To be a candidate, interested persons must file nominating petitions signed by 125 qualified voters who are residents of the Arlington Heights Park District.
All candidates must submit nominating petitions in order to run in the primary and general elections.
LaValle also said the Republicans have scheduled their county convention for June 1, one day before party committee members can begin circulating nominating petitions for candidates.
Ulster County's district attorney is investigating allegations that New Paltz Mayor Jason West signed nominating petitions using an address where he no longer lived.
[We are] planning on circulating independent nominating petitions for our statewide candidates in order to create an issue - themed additional voting line...» the letter states.
Democratic Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk's efforts to gain the Women's Equality Party ballot line failed on Monday when a state Supreme Court judge invalidated nominating petitions submitted by her campaign.
Former Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi has filed nominating petitions with more than 22,000 signatures while his opponent in the Democratic primary, Adam Haber, filed almost 7,000 signatures.
She would need 15,000 signatures on nominating petitions by July 9th to get onto the ballot.
Queens District Attorney Richard Brown (l.), whose office prosecuted then - City Councilman Dennis Gallager (r.), are sharing space on Republican nominating petitions as Brown seeks re-elected as DA and Gallagher looks to hold on to his GOP county committee position.
Candidates were able to begin circulating nominating petitions Tuesday.
Linares told me he filed nominating petitions containing more than 5,000 signatures with the NYC Board of Elections this morning, adding:
Foster failed to file his Democratic nominating petitions in time.
Syracuse Republicans passed nominating petitions for Onondaga County Republican Party Chairman Tom Dadey to run.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOMINATING PETITION FILING FOR PARK BOARD Three Park Commissioners for the Arlington Heights Park District will be elected to four - year terms at the April 7, 2017 consolidated election.
Spitzer carried his own nominating petition sheet, and collected about seven signatures before leaving by taxi.
Returning from Korea, he attended college under the G.I. Bill before beginning his political career by gathering nominating petitions in the Bronx for John F. Kennedy.
Eliot Spitzer turned in to the NYC Board of Elections what he said was 27,000 signatures collected on nominating petitions over four days.
Candidates begin carrying nominating petitions in early June and they are due back to the city Board of Elections in early July.
But the state Board of Elections has ruled Kicinski's nominating petitions invalid, kicking him off the GOP ballot in the June 24 primary.
Former Troy mayoral candidate Ernest Everett arrives at Troy City Court to face allegations that he falsified nominating petitions earlier this year.
Collecting presidential nominating petitions in the dead of winter will no picnic.
And to throw another awkward log on the fire, the race spawned two police investigations — one involving the arrest of Democrat Ernest Everett after the primary for allegedly forging nominating petitions, and one looking into who may have leaked Gordon's wife's 911 call to the media.
The Troy Police Department has launched an investigation into allegations of petition fraud on Democratic mayoral nominating petitions.
The questions that still remain to be answered - even after all the talking Spitzer has done over the past 14 hours or so - is: Why this office, and why now, just four days before nominating petitions are due at the NYC Board of Elections?
With respect to election nominating petitions, the «specific objection process» is cumbersome since it is required that an individual in each election district place a «general objection» on record which can then be followed by a «specific objection (s)» within a very short time, usually within one week.
I asked why the executive committee would not allow a Conservative primary when Stefanik and Doheny had both filed Conservative nominating petitions with more than enough signatures to qualify.
She said she did not submit the required nominating petitions to the Suffolk County Board of Elections by the July 11 deadline because she expected a challenge to her petitions from the McManmon camp.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOMINATING PETITIONS AVAILABLE FOR PARK BOARD Two Park Commissioners for the Arlington Heights Park District will be elected to four - year terms at the April 7, 2015 consolidated election.
The Du Page County Board of Election Commissioners heard objections to Oury «s nominating petitions Monday.
The two marquee candidates for Buffalo mayor — incumbent Byron Brown and Assemblyman Mark Schroeder, both Democrats — filed nominating petitions yesterday with the Erie County Board of Elections, one day ahead of the deadline.
In a brief press release accompanying the photo, Delgado spoke to just how difficult it is to secure nominating petitions.
Friday's fireworks were ignited by 40 signatures on a GOP nominating petition for McLaughlin that was dropped off at the elections board by a supporter.
In the video recorded by a board of elections employee, McLaughlin, a Republican Assemblyman from Troy, can be heard yelling at Republican commissioner Larry Bugbee during a heated discussion over incomplete nominating petitions he said were filed by a campaign volunteer.
Conservative Democratic state Sen. Diaz discovered that someone in the Bronx Republican Party circulated unauthorized nominating petitions in the name of Ruben M. Diaz residing at 1600 Metropolitan Avenue.
Saying it was «time for me to undertake new endeavors and spend more time with my family,» Owens» announcement came on the eve of required fundraising reports, just weeks before potential candidates would start circulating nominating petitions ahead of a June primary.
After her announcenment, Rozum said she will board an Amtrak train to Albany to deliver nominating petitions to the state Board of Elections.
«County Executive Ed Mangano did not file Republican nominating petitions today,» Deputy County Executive Ed Ward said in a statement.
The Republican gubernatorial hopeful, citing six recent state Board of Elections decisions tossing Democratic Senate candidates off the WEP ballot line because of unlawful nominating petitions, said that both the US Attorney's Office and district attorneys where the Senate races are being held should seek to hold those responsible criminally liable.
In Harlem's 15th Congressional District, state Senator Bill Perkins, who in 2008 bucked the Harlem political establishment to support Obama, was left off the delegate nominating petition.
Independent candidates seeking placement the general election ballot must be nominated via nominating petitions.
Conservative Party nominating petitions for county comptroller by would - be dragon slayer Jack Hayes of Gardiner, a former legislator and candidate for Assembly, were rejected by the county Board of Elections, which cited «fatal flaws.»
In an article published online Monday morning, NY Post columnist John Crudele reported that upstate FBI agents are reviewing allegations of voter fraud, fraudulent nominating petition signatures and possibly personal use of campaign funds by Bronx officials connected to the Bronx Democratic County Committee.
Donaldson, minority leader of the legislature, contended that Quigley, 21, a college student in Connecticut until May 10, did not live at 60 Orchard St. in the legislative district but rather at his parents» home in the Town of Ulster at the time he circulated nominating petitions during June.
On another Bernardo note, Terry's husband Len, the Independence Party chairman, was positively furious over mayoral candidate Hayes Clement circulating «opportunity to ballot» nominating petitions against Shayne Gallo, Bernardo's choice for mayor.
On July 14, the Board of Elections determined that the petition was invalid, stating that it «was not in compliance with the Election Law and / or the [Board's] Designating and Nominating Petition Guidelines and Requirements,» according to a decision dated Tuesday.
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