Sentences with phrase «over getting on the ballot»

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Over $ 1 million was raised in pursuit of legalization in Maine, much of which was spent gathering the signatures necessary to get Question 1 on the ballot.

Raines got in on his 10th and final year on the ballot after a methodical increase in support over the years.

Through personal involvement in many NY political campaigns over the past 25 years, I can tell you that getting on the ballot in NY is no easy task for outsiders (i.e., candidates not backed by a party).

But they didn't love the idea of losing control over who gets to run on their ballot line, which they — through gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins — worked so hard to secure in the 2010 campaign.

The main goal of the Democratic party's field organizing is to get their supporters off their butts and to the polls, either on Election Day or (even better) beforehand — absentee ballots are field - organizing gold, since every early ballot in the bank represents a voter who WO N'T need to be hassled in person or over the phone before November 4th.

«I want to be very clear on this: Because we've had five candidates who have, over the year, worked hard to get substantial support throughout the state committee and have that support, I am going to allow a two ballot process which will end up letting all five on the ballot,» Jacobs told me this morning.

The Wilson Pakula threshold for anyone not enrolled in the party who wants to run on the line, as you'll recall, is just over 50 percent of the weighted convention vote — more than twice the 25 percent necessary for party members to get onto the ballot.

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.

Cox tried to get Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, a Democrat, on the ballot over Lazio at the convention.

The state's Supreme Court hadn't resolved a partisan scuffle over who gets to be listed first on the ballot this year before overseas absentee ballots were dropped in the mail, so those voters will have to write in all the candidates» names themselves, according to Deputy Secretary of State James Spallone.

But Steve Levy did get over the 25 percent threshold, so assuming he gets more than 50 percent in an upcoming Wilson Pakula act vote, he will be on the ballot.

Unmentioned is the fact that Cuomo, whose victory over Republican Rob Astorino in November is even more likely without a WFP candidate in the race, would probably seek some sort of retaliation against the WFP — assuming, that is, that the party managed to get 50,000 votes for Teachout on its ballot line in the November general election and maintained its official status.

He said he collected well over the 2,000 signatures required to get on the ballot.

Asked why the Brown did not accept the need for a secret ballot to take on his critics once and for all, Balls said the prime minister has «got more important things to do than be diverted by a very small minority of people who have been making difficulty time and time again over the last few days».

Former MTA Chair Joe Lhota reported filing just over 17,000 petitions to get on the ballot, his campaign tweeted.

Mermel recently released a spreadsheet that shows he has the endorsements of GOP county chairs accounting for over 67.97 percent of the weighted convention vote, which would theorectically block anyone else from getting on the ballot.

Candidates for the Democratic nomination for attorney general can be nominated at state party committee meetings over the next month or file petitions with voter signatures in June to get on the ballot.

Jeremy Corbyn tells his MPs: Stop the sniping and get behind me Jeremy Corbyn attacks New Labour over financial crash Jeremy Corbyn warns Labour plotters he WILL be on leadership ballot paper

Hence in my yet unresolved struggle with the Iowa GOP over getting a ballot line on the Ames Straw Poll, very helpful an Israel News Service story about the issue made me the # 1 Google search result the past couple of days for «Ames straw poll».

On election day, the progressive Working Families Party garnered 120,000 votes, well over the 50,000 required to maintain ballot status - although it slipped from fourth to fifth position behind the Green Party, which rode a wave of anti-Cuomo sentiment and got 175,000 votes.

Do you as party chair feel any particular obligation to exercise quality control over who's getting on the ballot, particularly in the city, to try and upgrade the quality of elected leadership this community has?

Spitzer could still face a legal battle over his last - minute attempt to get on the ballot for September's Democratic primary.

And I'll get conservative votes upstate because I'm pro-Second Amendment,» said Credico, who managed to get over 13,000 votes on the Democratic primary ballot in last year's race for mayor.

Howie won over 40 % of the vote the last time he ran for this seat, and that was after having to petition like crazy to get on the ballot.

In Indiana, it takes over 34,000 signatures to get on the ballot.

JAMESTOWN - Jamestown attorney and candidate for Congress Eddie Sundquist is a step closer to getting his name on the Democratic Party's primary ballot after filing over 2,000 signatures with the New York State Board of Elections.

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren got the party's endorsement on the first ballot, but the battle to secure the nomination isn't over yet.

Frank and I fought hard for consolidation and eventually we prevailed — we were able to get a referendum on the ballot that was adopted by the voters with over 3/4 of the voters approving it and we eliminated an entire office in the town saving over $ 500,000 per year.

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!

Just pick from the Genesis classics and cast your vote between August 14th and August 21st — and remember, you can come back everyday and check on how your favorite game is faring and cast another vote to help push it over the top, or get your friends to stuff the ballot in favor of any one of these landmark titles.

«We deeply appreciate the efforts of our staff and hundreds of volunteers who collected over 360,000 signatures to get I - 732 on the ballot last December, and who continued the momentum until polls closed tonight,» said Kyle Murphy, co-director of the Yes on 732 campaign.

So if you're minded to vote for Slaw but haven't got around to it yet, this would be a good time to nip on over to the ABA site, register to vote, and cast your ballot for us in the Legal Technology category.