Sentences with phrase «only gets on the ballot»

The question only gets on the ballot every 20 years and there hasn't been a constitutional convention in the state in half a century.

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Put your cross on the ballot paper... or make John Buckeridge cross It was politics that triggered the only time I got mad with my good friend Phil.

But Tech is on 70 of 76 ballots, and WVU is on 74 of 76; even if Texas Tech had gotten four No. 18 votes from those six remaining ballots, instead of none (yes, the No. 18 team got zero 18th - place votes), it would only have shaved about half a point off WVU's edge.

Lee Smith was the only other former player to be named on a majority of the ballots, getting 51 %.

At this point, only Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice is certain to have sufficient support (25 percent) to get on the ballot, and, at the rate things have been going, it was possible that by the time the vote rolled around on Wednesday, she would be the only one to make the convention cut.

There is no such thing as an «official» announcement; the only official ways to be a candidate are to get enough votes at a convention or signatures on a petition, and accept them in order to be on the ballot.

Those vying for the NY - 25 seat, which is vacant following the death of Rep. Louise Slaughter, have only a few weeks to get their names on the ballot.

Lazio was the only candidate to get onto the ballot at the convention, but Carl Paladino went on to cream him in the GOP primary and he «ran» for a Bronx judgeship to get off the Conservative line and cede it to the businessman from Buffalo.

His campaign reported 3,600 signatures, but Moore contends only 222 are valid, well below the 500 needed to get on the ballot.

In theory anyone could attempt to run by collecting enough signatures to get on the primary ballot but the reality of election politics today is that only those people who are connected to the party already and have the ability to raise money for themselves and the party have a real chance of success of being nominated to a high profile position.

«But if several Democrats end up on the ballot in a general election it can only help the incumbent Republican who will definitely get out his base vote in what still amounts to a Republican town.»

This is the bill that says a newly - qualifying party that only wishes to participate in the presidential election may get on the ballot as late as July.

In Michigan the fact that Clinton was only able to get 55 % of the vote without Obama, Edwards, Biden and Richardson even on the ballot is laughable.

«Think of it this way, since he is already a Republican, he only needs 25 percent at the convention to get on the ballot.

July 16, 2011: Socialist Workers Party Submits 7,080 Signatures in Special New York U.S. House Race July 10, 2011: Socialist Workers Party Launches Fast Petition to Get on Ballot in Special New York U.S. House Election July 8, 2011: New York Special U.S. House Election Procedure Gives Only 12 Days for Independent Candidate Petitions

Collier, after declaring officially only on Monday, said she has been «overwhelmed by the positive response» and believes a growing pool of volunteers will be sufficient to collect the minimum 1,250 valid signatures needed to get on the primary ballot.

Phil Marius had 774 of his 1,216 invalidated for his petition to appear on the ballot, leaving him only eight short of the required 450 to get on the Democratic line.

Lewis only needed 5,000 signatures to get on the ballot in the 2012 election.

Under the City Charter, council candidates only need a minimum of 450 signatures to get on the ballot.

It is one of only four states in which Ralph Nader never got on the ballot, Read more»

Mike Benedetto challenger Egidio Sementelli tellin» us that not only the incumbent east Bronx assemblyman's cover sheet on his nominating petition was wrong, but also the AMENDED version, which he claims are automatic grounds for getting tossed off the primary ballot.

From the DCCC's point of view, McMurray has some things going for him, including the fact he emerged from what was originally a field of five Democrats to become the only one who ended up filing petitions to get on the ballot.

But the only so - called theft case in the News21 database involved four Indiana Democratic Party officials accused in 2008 of forging signatures on petitions to get Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the state primary ballot.

Some appointed committee heads, who are charged with determining which candidate goes on the ballot line, have chided Cuomo for only getting a watered down version of a taxpayer - funded public financing system.

Those vying for the 25th Congressional District seat have only a few weeks to get their names on the ballot.

If he gets on the ballot, he will be only the second Libertarian ever on the Virginia ballot for Governor.

With 99 absentee ballots sitting in the hopper on the day after the 2017 election, and more potentially to come in before they get opened beginning Wednesday, November 15, only two votes separated Hurley town supervisor candidates Republican / Conservative / Independence party choice John Perry (1104) and Democrat / Green / Working Families hopeful Tracy Kellogg (1102).

The only third party candidate that has announced a candidacy so far may face a battle to get on the ballot in November.

Georgia's only independent state legislator, Rusty Kidd, has already submitted his petition to get on the November 2012 ballot so that he can run for re-election.

Unlike citizens in 34 other states across America, residents here can only vote ahead of time — by absentee ballot — if they can say their profession, business, studies, travel, illness or disability will prevent them from getting to the polls on Election Day.

Mr. Spitzer announced his bid only in July, just days before petitions were due to get on the ballot.

Generally, campaigns only canvass if they are trying to get on the ballot of a third - party (like the Conservative or Working Families Party) with few voters or if they are having problems collecting signatures other ways.

It has now been three days since a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles invalidated California's law on how a party gets on the ballot, and the only news sources that have reported the decision are Rick Hasen's ElectionLawBlog, and Ballot Access News, and the web page of the ACLU of Southern Califballot, and the only news sources that have reported the decision are Rick Hasen's ElectionLawBlog, and Ballot Access News, and the web page of the ACLU of Southern CalifBallot Access News, and the web page of the ACLU of Southern California.

After plunging into the race Monday, the ex-governor has only until midnight to collect 3,750 valid signatures to get on the Democratic primary ballot.

Lorigo, being a party member, only needed 25 % of the weighted vote at the party's convention on May 28, 2010 to get on the primary ballot instead of the majority required by non-party members.

«The left - wing MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington joins David and Ed Miliband, former children's secretary Ed Balls, and former health secretary Andy Burnham on the list -LSB-...] But Ms Abbott's presence on the ballot paper was only thanks to a late flurry of support after fellow left - winger John McDonnell quit the race and called on his backers to get behind her.»

To get their candidates on the WEP line, it needed only three of its members to change their voter registration from Republican to Women's Equality and to petition for an opportunity - to - ballot in the September primary.

With only 180 enrolled Green Party members in the city as of April, Peltz needed just nine signatures to get on November's mayoral ballot.

With the 2017 Oscar season is still in its infancy, the only lead actor currently favored to get on the ballot who plays a father is Mark Rylance, as he commandeers a tugboat with his son aboard in «Dunkirk.»

Oscar nominations are preferential, which means not only do you have to get a lot of people to write you in, but you have to be consistently ranked high on the ballots.

If Oscar voters knew that the only thing standing between them and Dee Rees» Mudbound getting an Oscar nomination for Best Picture was how they ranked it on their ballots, do you think they would mark it at number one?

Here's the full list of 142 films that featured on our contributors» ballots: (Disclaimer: Luc Besson's Lucy didn't get a single vote - I just like this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Best!

You know, if the publishers get wind of this kind of ballot - box stuffing — and even if they don't, if the Kindle sales are significantly lower than the number of requests — they'll probably start ignoring all requests, so one should probably ask for only ones he'd actually want to see on Kindle, so as not to ruin it for the rest of the people in the end.

The only way to do that is for voters to decide, put it on the ballot and see if we can get these new laws to stick,» Shelbie Seys said.