Sentences with phrase «onto the ballot»

Also worth noting: Anyone who gets onto the ballot at the convention has seven days to accept their ballot line.

A circulating ethics law proposal could find its way onto the ballot as well.

Her exit allowed her supporters to transfer their backing to other candidates to enable them to get onto the ballot paper.

Twenty - six states allow citizens to gather signatures and place measures onto the ballot, while every legislature may place statutory laws before voters.

They need just 25 percent of the weighted vote to get onto the ballot.

After he eked his way onto the ballot at the GOP convention in Rochester last Friday, I sat down with Turner and asked him for his opinion on Limbaugh's recent «slut» controversy and whether he had agreed with the sentiment behind the comment.

Tonight is the deadline for Eliot Spitzer to submit 3,750 valid petition signatures in order to get onto the ballot in the NYC comptroller's race.

Cuomo's push comes as sexual harassment victims of former Assemblyman Vito Lopez win nearly $ 600,000 in restitution from the state, and former Senate Leader Malcolm Smith is convicted on bribery charges, for trying to buy his way onto the ballot for New York City mayor.

During the upheaval of the 2010 GOP gubernatorial primary, in which Cox unsuccessfully pushed for DEmocrat - turned - Republican Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy to get the nod (he was blocked from getting onto the ballot by former Rep. Rick Lazio, who lost in the primary to Carl Paladino), some called for Basile to be fired.

DioGuardi petitioned his way onto the ballot after failing to make the cut at the party's convention.

(The rumor was being pushed by the Turner camp, and would be very helpful to the congressman's quest to get 25 percent of the weighted convention vote to get onto the ballot as it would free up two vote - heavy counties now backing Maragos: Nassau and Suffolk).

Which is why it would be so foolish to allow that candidate onto the ballot in the first place, however tempting it might be to do a deal involving more loaned nominations.

Jimmy Vielkind reported earlier today that Levy, who has so far refused to either endorse his erswhile GOP gubernatorial opponent, Rick Lazio, or rule out trying to petition his way onto the ballot on a new third party line, was supposed to speak today to Sen. Tom Libous, head of the SRCC, about how he can help GOP state Senate candidates.

Meanwhile, Jacobs raised the possibility yesterday that all five attorney general contenders would be allowed onto the ballot at the convention.

State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs confirmed there have been discussions about letting all five AG contenders onto the ballot at the convention — even as Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice is poised to nab 30 percent of the weighted vote.

One delegate who told me she supports Sen. Eric Schneiderman, (who was expected to get onto the ballot if the party went the one - vote route), was downright furious over Jacobs» flip - flopping on the AG vote.

The subject of rules changes to let Levy onto the ballot with less than that amount was reportedly broached, but state GOP spokesman Alex Carey has since insisted that's not going to happen... We'll see.

Maragos said the previous focus of his statewide trips had been wooing the GOP rank - and - file to get onto the ballot because without passing that milestone, «it's all academic.»

It appears unlikely all of the Democratic AG contenders will be put onto the ballot at the convention.

A Labour Party spokesman said: «The NEC has agreed that as the incumbent leader Jeremy Corbyn will go forward onto the ballot without requiring nominations from the Parliamentary Labour Party and the European Parliamentary Labour Party.

Oddly enough, Peterson was helped onto the ballot by incumbent County Executive Joanie Mahoney, a Republican seeking her third term.

The primary campaign could be crowded, especially if some candidates take advantage of their right to petition onto the ballot by collecting signatures from enrolled party members.

Sources there say they wish that proper protocol would have been followed, instead of ramrodding this initiative through onto the ballot.

Steele and Cox have been at odds for some time, starting with a fallout over the state chairman's push to get party - flipping Suffolk Executive Steve Levy onto the ballot as a gubernatorial candidate.

Under Cuomo's plan, any member of any party could petition his or her way onto any ballot line, as long as they collect a sufficient number of valid signatures during the petition process.

That's why I joined a group of school leaders, educators and civic leaders to sign onto a ballot initiative aimed at providing fair access to public charter schools to the thousands of Massachusetts's families who want and deserve them.

The event took place shortly after the party's National Executive Committee ruled that the Labour chief will automatically go onto the ballot in the Labour leadership contest triggered by Angela Eagle.

Coffey, who has pledged to spend $ 2 million of his own cash on the race, was likely to petition his way onto the ballot anyway.

«The Senate Republicans must be truly desperate if they have to resort to having a former - AIG staffer to sneak onto the ballot at the last minute and run for State Senate.

Turner, one of three Republicans who will face off in the June 26 primary for the right to run on Row B against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this fall, is making his first return upstate since last month's GOP convention in Rochester when he, attorney Wendy Long and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos were all voted onto the ballot.

It appears she has calculated that was an impossibility, although it's also unclear whether she would have managed to get onto the ballot here at the convention this late in the game — even with state Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs» change of heart about the ballot.

He has the support of 2006 GOP gubernatorial nominee John Faso, who carries some weight among party members, but it's unclear if that will be enough to put Malpass onto the ballot.

The petition process, while clearly favoring Democrats in a Democrat - heavy city, was meant to offer a route onto the ballot that didn't require going through one of the city's massive, powerful political machines at the turn of the last century.

In 2015, rather than scraping onto the ballot paper, Corbyn, with 152 CLPs behind him, would have led the field.

That would be enough to get a Corbynite onto the ballot, though that candidate would need the backing of every single one of the survivors - John McDonnell probably wouldn't manage it.

Utica College government professor Luke Perry says getting that movement onto the ballot, while atypical, is strategic.

At the convention, all five Democratic AG contenders were put onto the ballot thanks to a complicated, micro-managed — and very lengthy — floor vote.

Johanna Baxter hit out after the NEC voted by 18 - 14 in favour of putting Mr Corbyn straight onto the ballot paper for Labour's forthcoming leadership election.

An appellate court Monday allowed Coll onto the ballot after a lower court disqualified him because of a petition error.

Meanwhile, MPs are said to be resigned to the fact that Mr Corbyn would make it back onto the ballot paper for the contest triggered by a coup.

His strategy is to try to help Theresa onto the ballot as a way of keeping Boris off.»

Never mind that Mike Long threw HIS principles out the window when he needed to hold onto his ballot line.

To allow everyone onto the ballot, Mr. Jacobs said, party leaders would hold two rounds of balloting, which would allow some committee members to vote for more than one candidate.

Twelve (12) votes will be needed for the over-ride to get the Legislature's version of the Charter onto the ballot in November 2014.

He was successfully nominated onto the ballot paper for Labour Deputy leader with most number of nominations.

The Academy most recently honored Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds with a Best Picture nomination, and I'm willing to bet several of my best steeds Django Unchained will slip onto the ballot.

And Ms. Meng's ties to the Queens County Democratic Party — who have fended off accusations of throwing surrogate candidates onto the ballot to weaken Mr. Lancman — will hurt her.

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who has been running for about a year now and has sufficient county support to get onto the ballot on Friday (assuming all the committee pledges he has received hold), did not attend, either.

The idea of simply letting all five Democratic AG contenders onto the ballot by having multiple votes was briefly considered, but apparently that has since been shot down.