Sentences with phrase «of access to the ballots»

Flanagan, in turn, suggests the party regulars are just fearful of anyone who threatens the establishment's unilateral control of access to the ballot, and their control of the means of election.

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All that said, the best way for you to find out exactly what it takes to get on the primary ballot is to: (1) hire a good election law attorney, or (2) contact the Suffolk County Board of Elections and ask them to provide you with the rules for ballot access, candidate qualifications (such as residency requirements in the district), deadline dates, and filing fees.

The Assembly legislation would move the filing deadline for petitions in 2012 to April 16, reduce the number of designating signatures for Assembly ballot access from 500 to 375.

That left Hayworth's campaign with 748 valid signatures, which is 22 short of the required 770 that was needed to secure ballot access.

Thousands of Democratic campaign pollwatchers across the country will use any phone with mobile web access to log in real time which voters have cast ballots.

While it's too early to determine how solid Spitzer's lead is — it is still unclear if he will have enough petition signatures to gain ballot access — 67 percent of voters in the poll believe the former governor should be given a second chance after resigning amid a prostitution scandal in March 2008.

The tax returns bill has been derided by Senate Republicans as a «P.R. stunt» but Stewart - Cousins insisted the measure was part of a consistent set of policy proposals (a different, but similar bill that would link releasing tax returns to ballot access, was defeated as a hostile amendment on the Senate floor).

Wagner, a Hudson Valley lawyer, says he's also filed 3,225 petition signatures this week with the state Board of Elections in order to achieve ballot access.

Libertarians and other third parties face a patchwork of rules and laws nationwide governing access to ballots.

It's sort of an insurance policy, like a failsafe to safeguard ballot access and all that hard work collecting signatures.

★ The Libertarian Party of Arizona had ballot access, but opted to supplant Browne with L. Neil Smith.

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The purpose of the meeting is to gain publicity and spread information about his SB 195, which would ease ballot access in Pennsylvania.

Billed as the «People's Presidential Debate,» the three candidates fielded a wide range of questions, ranging from the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline to the recent document dumps by WikiLeaks to staggering student debt and the nation's burdensome and discriminatory ballot access laws, among other topics, and did so without interrupting or insulting their opponents as had happened frequently during the recent Clinton - Trump deAccess Pipeline to the recent document dumps by WikiLeaks to staggering student debt and the nation's burdensome and discriminatory ballot access laws, among other topics, and did so without interrupting or insulting their opponents as had happened frequently during the recent Clinton - Trump deaccess laws, among other topics, and did so without interrupting or insulting their opponents as had happened frequently during the recent Clinton - Trump debates.

Rocky Anderson, the former mayor of Salt Lake City, has secured the backing on Oregon's Progressive Party according to Ballot Access News.

However, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that certain ballot access requirements, such as filing fees and submitting a certain number of valid petition signatures do not constitute additional qualifications and thus few Constitutional restrictions exist as to how harsh ballot access laws can be.

A presidential candidate must prepare to meet ballot access requirements in advance of primaries, caucuses, and the general election.

The two major parties dominate American politics due to these restrictive ballot access laws, along with the use of redistricting gimmicks and of course money.

The party also requires ballot access in a minimum number of states before we will vote to nominate a Presidential ticket.

By the evening of January 1, 2013, the December 1, 2012 print edition of Ballot Access News will probably be posted here, and even though normally past print issues are not updated, in this case, that issue will be updated to include the vote for president by state for each candidate.

By challenging her petitions he can force her lean campaign to spend tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to defend her access to the ballot.

A: Citizens Party Delegates will have the opportunity to field a strong Presidential ticket at our 2016 Presidential nominating Convention only if we have reached ballot access on a minimum number of states at least 30 days before the beginning of the convention and we have quality candidates that also meet the minimum requirements set forth by the national committee to seek our nomination.

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Initially the party had voted not to field a presidential candidate in 1992, but it was later found that the party would need to get at least half a percent of the vote in New Mexico in order to maintain its ballot access in that state.

Unlike in 1988, Fulani failed to gain ballot access in every state, deciding to concentrate some of that campaign funding towards exposure of her candidacy and the Party to the national public.

Both of the Michigan Libertarian Party ballot access cases are still actively trying to win a court ruling that will make it possible for voters to vote «Libertarian» for President without the need to cast a write - in vote.

Ballot papers distributed by party, with equality of access for candidates to electorate.

During his 2018 State of the State speech on Wednesday in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo spent little time on government ethics reform, but did address at somewhat greater length his proposals to increase access to the ballot box and change state campaign finance law.

On March 16, U.S. District Court Judge William J. Haynes refused to stay his own ruling in the Tennessee ballot access case, Green Party of Tennessee v Hargett, 3:11 - 0692.

Representative Mark Hamilton was so resentful that one or two Georgia ballot access activists had been rude to him that he killed the provision lowering the number of signatures.

«Laws that would allow for automatic voter registration, early voting, no - excuse absentee voting, and consolidation of primary elections will empower voters and give greater access to the ballot,» she said.

On March 4, the Birmingham News again published a column by Joey Kennedy, deploring Alabama ballot access and publicizing SB 265, the bill to cut the number of signatures in half and improve the deadline somewhat.

The Journal News, of Westchester County, reported on its Web site that a polling station in Hartsdale opened about two hours late because election workers couldn't get access to locked - up ballots.

The U.S. District Court Judge decision missed the main point of the lawsuit, that the unfavorable Georgia ballot access precedents do not relate to presidential elections.

The Green Party, with the help of presidential candidates, works hard every election season to win ballot access in every state.

PA has long been home to some of the most unjust and frustrating ballot access requirements in the nation, requiring Greens and independent candidates to collect many thousands more petition signatures to run for office than their duopoly counterparts.

The aim of this lawsuit is to gain ballot access by keeping the Oklahoma Board of Elections from enforcing unconstitutional ballot restrictions.

New York State is well behind other states in providing guarantees of ballot access and making it easy to register to vote.

Nader, who spoke in Oklahoma City about ballot access reform, said Oklahoma has one of the most restrictive requirements for third parties to get on the ballot.

Selecting the Working Families Party ballot line specifically would contribute to the passage of the state's DREAM Act, which would qualify undocumented youth who meet in - state tuition requirements to access state financial aid and scholarships for higher education.

True reform in the United States will be found when the ballot access laws are changed to open the ballots to all parties, and gerrymandering is outlawed so entrenched politicians can be voted out of office.

Non-partisan too, the stranglehold of the 2 big parties is so much of our problem, they control ballot access and force us all to pay for their primaries and we get to choose between the candidates they choose for us (which are basically the same).

The Arizona League of Women Voters will ask the Arizona legislature to ease ballot access for independent candidates.

However, the Governor doesn't seem to understand that the U.S. Constitution requires all states to provide ballot access procedures for independent candidates, separately and distinct from members of political parties.

Dan talks about giving equal right to access the ballot for the roughly 20 % of the voters with no party preference.

Mr Aminu Idris, Director, Election and Party Monitoring, INEC, gave the assurance at the Debate on «Increasing number of political parties in Nigeria and access to ballot in 2019» on Tuesday in Abuja.

The contrived nature of the system is even more abundantly clear when it comes to the discriminatory burdens placed on the nation's minor parties and independent candidates, whether the issue is unfair ballot access laws or the arbitrary and exclusionary 15 percent polling threshold imposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Greens — or any other third - party presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates this autumn.

These pages include maps showing state by state breakdowns of party ballot access and the campaign's quest to reach the 20 state threshold for matching funds:

The LP can potentially save hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2014 and 2016 — and countless volunteer hours — if Gov. Gary Johnson, Libertarian for President, and down - ticket Libertarian candidates meet state requirements to achieve ballot access.

This is the Secretary of State's omnibus election law bill, and it includes two ballot access improvements: (1) moving the non-presidential independent deadline from March to May; (2) eliminating a restriction on who can be an independent presidential or vice-presidential candidate.