The New York State Board of Elections has finalized its review
of candidate petitions for the June federal primary ballot.
The contents
of candidate petitions are established by state law.
Not exact matches
It refers to negative comments Republican presidential
candidate Donald Trump has made about various groups
of people, including Mexicans, Muslims, and women, asking that people support the
petition to encourage Starbucks to cut ties with the businessman.
To be a
candidate, interested persons must file nominating
petitions signed by 125 qualified voters who are residents
of the Arlington Heights Park District.
Any resident who wants to be a
candidate may pick up a nominating
petition at the Park District office, 410 N. Arlington Heights Rd.. The resident must get the signatures
of 382 qualified voters and return the
petitions by Jan. 21.
Barbara Sheldon, one
of three
candidates for Buffalo Grove village president, has been disqualified from the April 2 ballot because election officials found her nominating
petitions faulty.
Two members
of the Naperville Park District Board and a member
of the district's advisory council have filed
petitions to be
candidates in the coming parks board election.
During the mayoral campaign Brondyke, who ran unopposed for the park board, was part
of a shadow slate
of Park District
candidates backing Broda and his allies, helping in their campaigns and gathering nominating
petitions.
Candidates for mayor
of Buffalo Grove have until Feb. 1 to file nominating
petitions, so it is unclear what competition Rubin could face.
Basically, a
candidate can target a minimum
of fifteen congressional districts out
of the 29 to
petition in.
Akwa Ibom State All Progressives Congress (APC) and its governorship
candidate in the April 11 gubernatorial election, Mr Umana Okon Umana, has approached the Appellate Court in Abuja on Friday, to file an appeal challenging the judgment
of the state Governorship Election
Petition Tribunal on the poll.
The GOP does have a
candidate in Dr. Jim Maxwell who was already circulating
petitions with the intention
of challenging Slaughter this fall.
The truncated political calendar necessary as a result
of the court's decision to move up the federal primaries has reduced the number
of signatures necessary to get onto the ballot, but also shortened the amount
of time in which
candidates have to circulate
petitions.
The
candidate dropped the name
of his preferred running mate one day before his or her name will appear next to Paladino's on
petitions.
The President
of the Buffalo Teachers Federation, Phil Rumore, said the BTF decided to pass
petitions for Teachout and her Lt. Governor
candidate Tim Wu, to send a message to Governor Cuomo.
Staten Island resident Frank Morano, who is a long time supporter
of Golisano, sent out a letter today urging people to go onto the Americans Elect website and sign the
petition supporting the former
candidate for NY Governor.
State GOP Chairman Ed Cox insisted following the failure
of his preferred
candidate, Steve Levy, to make it onto the ballot at the convention today that the party - switching Suffolk County executive's gubernatorial campaign is finished and he will not be trying to launch a
petition drive for an independent bid.
Given the primary for Congressional races is now due to be held on June 26 and
candidates would have to start gathering
petitions by the end
of next month.
Sources said Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Mondello likes the idea
of an independent line because he thinks it might help his hometown US Senate
candidate, Bruce Blakeman, in the general election against the Conservatives» nominee, former Rep. Joe DioGuardi (assuming DioGuardi doesn't succeeed in his
petitioning effort to get onto the primary ballot and defeat both Blakeman and David Malpass in September).
A similar political sleight -
of - hand could be accomplished if Rangel files
petitions and then declines the nomination, enabling his committee on vacancies to select a
candidate to run in his stead.
For example, ads which use calls to action such as «
Petition for xyz» or «support
Candidate xyz,» will be excluded from using remarketing, regardless
of how the advertiser obtained their remarketing lists.
Club endorsements are important because members act as volunteer foot soldiers in campaigns, circulating
petitions on behalf
of chosen
candidates and assisting with literature drops, phone banks, and other GOTV efforts.
The
petition process begins June 5, and
candidates must obtain 1,000 signatures
of party members, according to the New York State Board
of Elections.
The MTGP Coordinator Danielle Breck stated that «The Montana Green Party has repeatedly shown, through our various
petitioning efforts, that we do, in fact, have the «modicum
of voter support» the law requires and that our
candidates are not «frivolous,» but rather provide an important alternative to pre-selected, unresponsive, corporate controlled
candidates offered by the two - party oligarchy.
The
petition must contain 100 signatures from each
of the state's congressional districts; only voters belong to the same party as the
candidate can sign the
petition.
At least 10 and perhaps as many as 18 hopefuls are currently
petitioning to get on the ballot, and a number
of prominent District 7
candidates have found themselves living not just in adjoining districts, but two districts away from the people they plan to represent.
Independent
candidates must submit a
petition containing the signatures
of at least 1 percent
of the total votes casts for all
candidates in the previous presidential election.
Spitzer didn't go public about his run until the evening
of July 7; the next morning, the Board
of Elections opened the window for accepting completed
petitions from
candidates.
Where a
candidate who has been elected at any election is proved at the trial
of an election
petition to which section 229 (3) applies to have been guilty
of any corrupt practice at the election, his or her election shall be void.
They may also only sign one
petition for any
candidate in a race — so if someone signed a
petition for one
of Spitzer's competitors during the weeks prior to his entry, its the earlier signature that counts.
To qualify for placement on the general election ballot, an independent presidential
candidate must submit a
petition containing the signatures
of at least 3,000 registered voters and pay a $ 250 filing fee.
A constituency
candidate at an election who applies for a recount
of the votes or a person who files an election
petition may, by notice in writing to the Electoral Commission, require the Electoral Commission forthwith to annotate the list attached to the master roll pursuant to section 187 (3):
Rensselaer County Executive
Candidate Steven McLaughlin berated his party's elections commissioner during a rant Friday about flawed campaign
petitions filed at the board
of elections.
But in general a
candidate needs to get a certain number
of unique signatures on a
petition supporting their candidacy.
Reese said Zellner shouldn't be judging the validity
of petitions of candidates who are running against the
candidates the committee is endorsing.
An NYPD detective who was disqualified from challenging a GOP - backed
candidate for a Nassau legislative seat because
of a
petition error has filed an 11th - hour appeal seeking to get on the ballot.
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.
The Kogi State governorship election tribunal has dismissed the
petition of Idris Wada,
candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2015 November and December governorship election against governor Yahaya Bello.
Barron
petitioned his way into the November gubernatorial election on what he's calling the Freedom Party line to protest the lack
of any
candidates of color on the statewide Democratic ticket.
Positing that she would only address «on - topic» questions, Malliotakis had little to say when asked about allegations by rival
candidate Bo Dietl that her campaign submitted improper
petitioning documents to the Board
of Elections.
«The Supreme Court properly denied the
petition... to invalidate the
petition designating Teachout as a
candidate for the public office
of governor...» the panel
of four appellate justices wrote.
Green Party congressional
candidate Matt Funiciello said Tuesday he has secured enough signatures to get on June 24 primary ballot, but his campaign will continue to circulate
petitions as a safeguard against any signatures that might be challenged and to show the strength
of the campaign.
ALBANY All seven Democratic
candidates seeking to defeat Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) have met the deadline to file
petitions with the state Board
of Elections.
Signatures from Syracuse mayoral
candidate Raymond Blackwell's
petition were deemed invalid because they came from residences located outside
of Syracuse.
This is water under the bridge, but I wonder what Gardiner Democratic committeewoman Barbara Sides was thinking when she challenged over 90 percent
of congressional
candidate Erin Collier's nominating
petitions.
Former assemblyman Michael Benjamin, who represented the 79th District before Mr. Stevenson, attacked Mr. Blake in the New York Post this week for taking donations from allies
of ambassador to South Africa (and Mayor Bill de Blasio confidant) Patrick Gaspard and for unceremoniously dropping several district leader
candidates from his
petitions in order to allegedly win support from the party establishment.
Messer announced that his campaign had found the signature
of a dead woman signed onto a Queens Democratic Party
petition containing a slew
of Democratic
candidates, including Stavisky.
Mr. de Blasio argued for less restrictive balloting and
petition laws, and called for «free legal aid» for
candidates less versed than him in the arcane intricacies
of City election law.
In Malcolm Smith's District 14, covering Southeast Queens, a
petition challenge is on against
candidate Bernadette Semple that illustrates the twisted nature
of the challenge process.
Six
candidates set up campaign committees to run for the seat and five filed
petitions with the state Board
of Elections to get on the ballot.