Sentences with phrase «party candidate petitions»

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There is nothing wrong if a party backed candidate, in this case Lazio, chooses to petition for a «Tax Cuts Now» party like Pataki did in 1994, but a State Chair?

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.

If all else fails, Paladino is planning to petition his way onto the ballot as an independent candidate, although he will not be naming his self - created line the «Tea Party,» because that would be seen as «an anathema» to activsits, Caputo said.

Mangano, who is awaiting trial on federal corruption charges, has yet to declare that he is not seeking a third term, but his only remaining option to qualify for the Nov. 7 general election would be to distribute petitions to be an independent candidate under a nonestablished minor party.

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.

A political party is granted automatic ballot status — the right to field a candidate in any race in the state without circulating petitions — if its gubernatorial candidate wins more than 50,000 votes in a general election.

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 oligaParty 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 oligaparty 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.

[15] This bill moved the petition deadline for political parties seeking official state recognition from April to January 2 and moved the petition deadline for independent candidates from May 1 to March 1.

A party that allows petitioning for primary ballot access may not have a later filing deadline for presidential candidates than candidates in the general primary election.

In some cases, political parties and / or candidates may need to obtain signatures via the petition process to gain ballot access.

Candidates can start collecting signatures on petitions starting June 2 for the DA race on the November ballot so the party must make a selection on Sunday, the chairman said.

«These strong petition numbers reflect that Democratic voters do not want their candidate to be selected by party insiders,» he said in a news release.

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.

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.

Both Hall — a Democrat who won the Independence cross-endorsement in 2008 — and Hayworth filed petitions for the line last week, and state party leaders could have authorized both requests and let the candidates compete in a primary in September.

The loyalty clause, which was added in 2002, prohibits the following activities, by a committee member, involving candidates other than the party's endorsed candidate: circulating nominating petitions; appearing in advertising; permitting the committee member's name to be used in advertising or on stationery; directly or indirectly contributing financially to a campaign; and appearing at political functions, meetings or support groups organized by a rival candidate.

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.

Connecticut Representative Tim Bowles (D - Preston) has introduced a bill to lower the statewide independent candidate petition, and the statewide petition for newly - qualifying parties, from 7,500 signatures, to 5,000 signatures.

The final return date for the candidate questionnaires for that election year is one month after the final return date for the nominating petitions to be a candidate on the Green Party ballot line.

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.

Pursuant to the City Charter, the nomination of candidates in the election will be by independent nominating petition, rather than through a party primary.

The Queens Democratic Party often puts their chosen candidates on the same petition sheet to cut down on the number of times residents must sign.

One of those claiming to be the governorship candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim, has sent a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari over the activities of some members of staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

As reported earlier, on March 26, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that in - district residency requirements for circulators can not be enforced, at least for petitions for minor party and independent candidates.

In lieu of committed party members with ample free time, many Senate Republican candidates rely on their government staffs to assemble the petitions that allow them on the Independence and Conservative ballot lines.

Dadey has made it clear that he only put his name on petitions as a placeholder, hoping the party can come up with another candidate for the Republican line.

The 2012 petition requirement will equal 2 % of the highest vote - getter's vote among the four 2011 statewide major party candidates.

Luthmann believes that the objection and rejection of the petition was a way for the Democratic party in Staten Island to keep him off the ticket so the party - backed candidate, Lou Liedy, could run unopposed.

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

Minor parties are also permitted to nominate candidates by petition or by assembly.

Meanwhile, the APC suffered loss as the Tribunal dismissed the petition of Maureen Tamuno, the party's candidate for the 2015 National Assembly election.

It has the effect of moving the petition deadline for minor parties and non-presidential independent candidates from June to March Read more»

Indiana is one of only two states in which no statewide minor party or independent candidate petition has succeeded, since 2000.

The party's 2016 Parliamentary candidate, Salifu Iddrisu alias protocol made the call in a petition submitted to the Electoral Commission on Tuesday.

Republican Daniel Weisberg's petition to be a primary candidate on the Independence Party line has been thrown out by NY State Supreme Court Justice Linda Jamieson.

The NYC Board of Elections acknowledges that the Bronx Democratic party organization filed petition volumes for its slate of Council candidates incumbents Rafael Salamanca, Vanessa Gibson, Fernando Cabrera, Andy Cohen and Andy King as well as Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj and State Sen. Rubén Diaz Sr., judicial delegates, and civil court candidate, Fidel Gomez.

In response to Bronx Chronicle inquiries, the Liberal Party of New York acknowledges that it «does not have a permanent ballot line at this time» and that all of our candidates are petitioning onto the line for the November general election.

The Republican chairs will announce their preferred candidate on February 5, and encourage party operatives to circulate their petitions.

Candidates of unqualified parties and independent candidates must submit a petition due in eaCandidates of unqualified parties and independent candidates must submit a petition due in eacandidates must submit a petition due in early April.

If this bill is signed into law, the petition deadline for new parties, and for non-presidential independent candidates, will improve.

The minor party is circulating petitions with the name of its chairman, Rick Bellando, as its county executive candidate.

Key: D = Democratic Party, R = Republican Party, G = Green Party, WF = Working Families Party, I = Independent Party, L = Libertarian Party, PC = petitioning candidate.

Ballot Access News erred when it reported that the new Florida ballot access law for minor party presidential candidates requires a petition signed by 4 % of the last presidential vote, unless the minor party is recognized by the Federal Election Commission.

The Board of Elections requires all candidates to petition for a political party's support when running for elected office.

Americans Elect is the first statewide petition in that state (whether newly - qualifying party or statewide independent candidate) to have completed a petition successfully since the Libertarians did it in 2000.

He says he thought he was signing for just a single Libertarian candidate, and hadn't realized that he was signing a petition to put the party itself on the 2012 ballot.

Newton, the party endorsed candidate, conceded at 8:20 p.m., when it was clear to him and the dozen supporters in his rented headquarters in a Stratford Avenue storefront that Baker, a petitioning challenger, had won the Democrat slot on the fall ballot.