Sentences with phrase «people got on the ballot»

The political machines of the 19th century are dead and buried, but the mechanisms by which people got on the ballot — cash and cachet — remain quite vibrant.

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«Putting (the questions) on the ballot was a fiscally sound way to get input back from the people,» she said.

He also promised «an awful lot of people are going to get hurt in the process» if legislative leaders go along with the governor's idea of scrapping third party officials» power to hand - pick who runs on their ballot lines — a pledge that no doubt sent shivers up the spines of not a few Senate Republicans.

The question is, if you're a scatterbrained person and lost your mailed ballot, can you obtain a ballot on your own initiative, and if so, how much flexibility is there as far as which specific ballot you get?

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.

This is one of the many quaint parts of the New York democratic tradition, which are intended to make it difficult for people who are not incumbent officeholders to get on the ballot.

Rachel Barnhart, one of the people seeking the Democratic nomination for the congressional seat previously held by Louise Slaughter, says she has secured the required number of signatures to get on the primary ballot.

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.

To get the nomination, you need 25 percent of the vote to get on the ballot, I think 40 percent to get the official designee or nominee of the party, so you want someone that would have the intention to continue to run and then that person would be on the ballot in September in the primary formally, and then in November in the general election,» Smikle explained.

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.

Also of the many people on the ballot paper how many of them get elected and does my choice get spread or just land with one?

I just need you to sign the petition to get me on the ballot,» said Weiner, who then noticed the incredulous reaction of a reporter and added, «and you really shouldn't talk that way about people.»

She especially needed people to collect signatures to get her name 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».

«I believe in democracy and if people follow the rules to get on the ballot, then we will let the people decide,» Miner said on The Capitol Pressroom.

It must surely make sense to focus on getting younger people to cast their ballots to stay.

Simply being on the ballot allows a small party to get known to a large number of people and get their ideas to a wider audience.

NYS does not have an INITIATIVE process whereby people petition to get laws on the ballot.

And if we get fifty thousand votes then that means we have the ability to put one of the people on the ballot in every election and we'll start winning seats starting next year.»

DioGuardi will get the 15,000 signatures, he will be on the GOP primary ballot, and he will win because the people of New York are fed - up with this state's inside political games!

«In the end, when and if I choose to run, there will be people with me,» said Cappelli, who has until July to gather petition signatures to get on the ballot.

«We're doing it so the people of New York are empowered to be able to get on the ballot and start winning elections and I think it's going to be a game changer.

Right now, this minute, this hour, New Yorkers who care about their future, economic health and personal safety, in what knowledgeable people worldwide call the capital of the world, our New York City, can spend a small amount of their money, i.e., $ 175 to help ensure that Rudy Giuliani's deputy mayor, Joe Lhota, gets on the primary ballot,» Gelb said.

«We will be very clear on communicating a message on why people should be voting for Democrats and not for the Republicans if we focus on how we are building our bench and use this opportunity to get more people involved in the process up and down the ballot,» he said.

I would welcome her support and I'm really working hard to get the people that voted for her in the primary to vote for me in the general because I'm the last progressive on the ballot,» he added...

Now he has to collect 7,500 signatures to get on the ballot (really, more like 10,000 because many of the people who sign as Snoop Dogg or Kirsten Dunst turn out not to be).

I am sure that NRI is well - intentioned but I don't see how a kid who couldn't get hinself or the candidate that he managed on the ballot is the best person to manage an effort against the consummate crafty politician that is Senator Espada.

To get on the ballot, the former mayor would have to gather 79,939 valid voter signatures in Texas by May 9 from people who had not voted in either the March 1 Democratic or Republican primaries.

To get on the ballot 5 percent of the people who live in the corresponding district must sign the petition, said Lora Allen, Niagara County Democratic elections commissioner.

If the Legislature doesn't approve the measure, Fried said he will personally lead an effort as county executive to gather petitions from Rocklanders to bypass the legislature and get this item on the ballot so that the people could decide.

The Progressive People's Party (PPP) has urged Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC) to retrieve all six (6) ballot boxes that got missing in the Western Region on Friday.

We still have issues such as holding our party primaries in August when many people are on vacation, systemic barriers like where and how to get to the polls and a confusing system for casting absentee ballots.

If fewer than 50,000 people had voted on the Working Families line for governor that year, it would have lost its ballot line until at least the next gubernatorial election, when it would have had to file petitions to get back on the ticket.

His campaign raised issues, including saying that ballots were not available at a polling place at Carroll Hill Elementary School; that people were discouraged from voting; that voters were asked for ID at polling places at the Rensselaer County Office Building, in which the board offices are located; that the School 12 polling place was locked with no instructions on how to get inside; and that Wiltshire poll watchers were harassed by board employees about encouraging people to cast affidavit ballots.

She is not a doctor but she is the person responsible for getting CA Proposition 37 (CA Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act) on November ballot.

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.

His prediction is not just that plenty of people will put Dunkirk first on their ballot; it also looks at the films likely to get the fewest number of No. 1 votes — Daniel predicts that will be Darkest Hour, The Post, and Phantom Thread — and then guesses where Dunkirk shows up on those ballots.

While the various branches of industry people like actors, cinematographers, and sound technicians, vote on the nominees for each category in the first stage, the entire membership of nearly 8,000 members, all get to vote on the winners (ballots were due Tuesday).

To get an understanding of how America's wealthiest people are using some of their fortunes to drive school reform, take a look at a list of the contributors to the pro-charter school initiative on the Washington state ballot in November.

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.

Aug 03, 2012 - It's not a surprise that a proposition on the November ballot in California is getting a lot of attention from people on both sides of the issue.