Sentences with phrase «petition signatures»

The advocates want to see greater diversity on that ballot by lowering the number of petition signatures required to run.

It takes 25,000 valid petition signatures for a candidate to receive ballot access.

He began collecting petition signatures following last year's 43 percent property tax hike.

He could also create his own line if he gathered enough petition signatures.

In order to do that he would need petition signatures from 1,500 registered city voters.

Doing that would shorten the time opponents have for gathering petition signatures needed to place the bill before voters in a referendum, making it more difficult to pull off a referendum.

We held town hall meetings, got over 4000 petition signatures in support of our plan and it did not matter; closing this school was a part of pushing us out.

Each Democratic candidate needs 1,000 valid petition signatures from party members to get on the primary ballot.

They organize a «parent union», help parents create a wish list of reforms, used hired staff to get petition signatures, and distribute flyers in the neighborhood as starters.

There were about twenty petition signatures at the door, a few of them pretty clearly invalid.

When obtaining petition signatures must the charter be complete?

Doing so would require a major network of volunteers to gather petition signatures later this summer.

An independent candidate must gather the same number of petition signatures as partisan candidates.

He has no endorsements and little money, but he feels he's collected enough petition signatures to at least get on the ballot, even if his signatures are challenged.

To do that, he needs to collect more than 1,300 petition signatures from registered voters.

The candidate still must gather legally valid petition signatures to qualify for the primary election.

Who's Running in The 2017 NYC Primary Elections by Jerry Skurnik (July 18, 2017) Politics wonk and election consultant, Jerry Skurnick tells us «Who's Running in The 2017 NYC Primary Elections» and which Bronx Democrats filed petition signatures with NYC -LSB-...]

To qualify for the race, candidates had to pay a filing fee by April 12, 2018, or they must have submitted petition signatures by March 13, 2018.

[Another source says Rivera ultimately did not submit petition signatures for female district leader.]

Grimm will challenge Donovan on the Conservative Party line via a write - in campaign in the primary election after his campaign circulated and filed petition signatures with the BOE for an opportunity - to - ballot, which will allow voters to write in a candidate on the Conservative line.

Former Mayor Lucian Pawlak is challenging him for the roughly $ 60,000 - a-year job, and submitted enough petition signatures on Tuesday to force a primary.

The rally then moved over to the front of the White House for chanting, and then on to deliver petition signatures calling for an end to mountaintop removal coal mining.

The Patrick Ryan congressional campaign has challenged more than 90 percent of the almost 2500 nominating petition signatures submitted by fellow candidate Erin Collier's congressional campaign to the state board of elections.

But Robert Jerski gathered petition signatures against her in 2004 as an anti-Iraq War candidate, but she threw him off the ballot for lack of signatures after a prolonged legal battle.

The commission proposed cutting the number of petition signatures needed to get on the ballot for mayor, public advocate, comptroller, borough president and Council by half.

Should he gain the necessary petition signatures, Spitzer's opponent would be Scott Stringer, the Manhattan borough president and a former Democratic assemblyman himself.

Recently, Dietl has gone after Malliotakis, accusing her of filing fraudulent ballot petition signatures and insulting her at debates.

PA has long been home to some of the most unjust and frustrating ballot access requirements in the nation, requiring Greens and independent candidates to collect many thousands more petition signatures to run for office than their duopoly counterparts.

The move means potential candidates for federal office can file fewer petition signatures in order to achieve ballot status, giving non-incumbents a leg up in a compressed political calendar.

In August 2013, the Daily News published a story about petition signatures purported to be those of Derek Jeter and Kate Moss.

The letter, sent to the Parole Board on Wednesday, comes the same week as Republican Sen. Pat Gallivan delivered 10,000 petition signatures opposing Clark's release.

Following a month of abundant citywide community activism and outreach, City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has submitted to City Hall more than 10,600 parent petition signatures, dozens of video and audio testimonies and nearly 20 resolutions from Community Education Councils, Community Boards and the Schools Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, all protesting teacher and day -LSB-...]

Raymond Blackwell was ruled ineligible for the Syracuse mayoral Democratic primary in September as a result of invalidated petition signatures.

NY Union Proud (NYUP), the slate of insurgent union members competing for the leadership of PEF, has gathered the requisite petition signatures needed to make the ballot.

Hours later, over 100 New Yorkers rallied at Comptroller Scott Stringer's office, delivering a divestment valentine with thousands of petition signatures urging the City's pension funds to divest coal, oil and gas holdings.

Former D.A. Michael Bongiorno fails to notarize Weisberg's petition signatures properly, resulting in loss of Independence Party line

Astorino, the current Westchester County executive, would have to gather at least 15,000 petition signatures over the next five weeks to create a Stop Common Core line on the statewide ballot.

The Tenney campaign had claimed that Phillips violated election law by submitting fraudulent petition signatures in order to secure a spot on the ballot.

NEW YORK, NY — Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) applauds the South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families for collecting more than twice the number of petition signatures required to refer the state abortion ban to the November ballot.

She initially succeeded in having 1,884 of Perez Williams» petition signatures ruled invalid, leaving her with 1,393 valid signatures.

The parties have historically been unable to gather enough validated petition signatures to be listed on the ballot according to Georgia law.

In Quart's district, a single petition signature was all it took to open up the WEP line in September — and to put Harary on the ballot for November.

Hevesi and Fox have since June 8 been traversing western Queens neighborhoods to garner petition signatures they need to land on the ballot for the Democratic primary this September.

Top county Republicans described Cairo as a skilled campaign organizer who could help Republican candidates quickly secure petition signatures and motivate campaign volunteers.

However, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that certain ballot access requirements, such as filing fees and submitting a certain number of valid petition signatures do not constitute additional qualifications and thus few Constitutional restrictions exist as to how harsh ballot access laws can be.