Sentences with phrase «petition signatures filed»

Jerald, over 75 % of the petition signatures filed by Senator Tkaczyk were fraudulent and came from the Brooklyn or the Bronx.

The Board of Elections last week knocked Democrat Justin Wagner, running to fill the seat being vacated by Sen. Greg Ball (R - Putnam), off the WEP line after invalidating 60 percent of the 4,602 petition signatures filed on his behalf.

Not exact matches

An online petition too has been filed which has gathered the signature of tens of thousands of traders.

Supporters of the Park District had filed objections to the petitions, alleging that the 3,800 signatures were tainted by forgeries and a pattern of fraud.

The decision came after others objected to Augustyn's petition due to faulty signatures, and improper notarization and binding for his December filing to run in the April 9 election.

The Assembly legislation would move the filing deadline for petitions in 2012 to April 16, reduce the number of designating signatures for Assembly ballot access from 500 to 375.

Wagner, a Hudson Valley lawyer, says he's also filed 3,225 petition signatures this week with the state Board of Elections in order to achieve ballot access.

Dell Smitherman, a former Local 1199SEIU political director, filed petitions with 4,000 signatures — four times the number required to get on the ballot — to take on Sampson, who was indicted for allegedly stealing from housing escrow accounts and making false statements.

The legislator and Bronx Democratic Party chairman filed petitions that included multiple duplicate signatures, voters who did not live in his Assembly district and signatures from voters who said they never signed the sheets, according to the complaint filed in Bronx Supreme Court.

In Southeast Queens, former City Councilman Leroy Comrie filed petitions with 5,800 signatures to take on Smith, who was accused of trying to bribe his way onto the 2009 mayoral ballot.

To qualify for placement on the general election ballot, an independent presidential candidate must submit a petition containing the signatures of at least 3,000 registered voters and pay a $ 250 filing fee.

Allegro has filed a blizzard of objections to Brabenec's United Monroe petition in hopes of getting it invalidated, citing the signatures of voters who live outside the district or were ineligible because they previously had signed Brabenec's Republican petition, and other alleged problems.

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.

Recall petitions may be filed and circulated at any time after the election of the targeted official; however, there are limits as to when the recall election can take place, if the recall supporters collect enough signatures to force a recall.

«And the only way this community gets a choice is if we — people like myself, Rachel Barnhart, Robin Wilts, and anybody else, Joe Morelle — is if those people file those petitions and I'm going to need, everybody will need 1,250 signatures in order to give the citizens of this community a choice.»

Former Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi has filed nominating petitions with more than 22,000 signatures while his opponent in the Democratic primary, Adam Haber, filed almost 7,000 signatures.

The Republicans believe this is the largest petition operation in New York history, surpassing the Working Families Party's 1998 filing, which organizers said included some 60,000 signatures.

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.

To succeed, she will have to gather at least 1,250 valid signatures from registered Democrats before a deadline at 5 p.m. Thursday for petitions to be filed with the state Board of Elections in Albany.

Teachout says she filed 45,000 petition signatures — three times the amount she needs to win a spot on the Democratic primary ballot.

By comparison, two - term incumbent Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican from the North Country, boasted Monday that she had about 6,400 signatures from GOP voters on petitions her campaign filed with the state Board of Elections.

Republicans also filed petitions with 2,300 signatures for Conservative Anthony Senft, an Islip Town board member, to be the GOP candidate for the seat.

Mr. Cohen, who has also run for town trustee in the past, sought but did not receive the party's endorsement, but forced a primary by filing a petition with well over the required number of signatures.

Specifically, shortly before the midnight deadline on Thursday, April 12 for filing designating political party petitions, a Grimm operative filed one Reform Party petition signature for Dan Donovan.

Silver's 12 - page court claim, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court last Tuesday, alleges that Lipp didn't get enough Republican signatures on her petition to become the GOP candidate in the Assembly race.

This lawsuit sites «an unnecessarily early petition filing deadline, and unnecessarily high petition signature requirement».

If a candidate qualifies by submitting an in - lieu - of - filing - fee petition, the signatures on that petition will be counted towards the requirement for the nomination paper.

Registered voters may sign both the in - lieu - of - filing - fee petition and the nomination paper, unless the candidate is using the signatures on the in - lieu - of - filing - fee petition to count toward the nomination paper requirement.

A challenge to his petitions filed by Essex County Democratic Party Committee Chair Bethany Kosmider cited duplicate signatures, information like dates omitted from the documents and one cover sheet that failed to list the political party he wanted to run under.

If the number of registered voters in the district in which the candidate seeks nomination is less than 2,000, a candidate may submit a petition containing four signatures for each dollar of the filing fee, or 20 percent of the total number of registered voters in the district in which he or she seeks nomination, whichever is less.

In August, Astorino's lawyers filed a «general challenge» to Cuomo's WEP petitions after concluding that «there was obvious fraud» involving many of the signatures, said spokeswoman Jessica Proud.

Mr. de Blasio's team, meanwhile, expects to file approximately 60,000 petition signatures with the Board of Elections, his campaign spokeswoman told Politicker Tuesday.

That being said, Rangel's campaign just filed 20,066 petition signatures with the Board of Elections, while the required minimum to get on the ballot is 1,250 signatures.

And Doe Fund Founder George McDonald, the first candidate to file his petitions, submitted 7,550 signatures Monday.

These are called opportunity to ballot petitions and are substantially the same as designating petitions (i.e., the petitions are held to the same signature and filing requirements, etc.), except that they do not require a candidate to be named.

Teachout's campaign this month filed about 45,000 petition signatures to gain ballot access, triple the amount needed.

Independent Democratic Conference Sen. Jeff Klein's campaign says he has filed nine times the number of required petition signatures with the state Board of Elections.

Wagner is among the Democratic Senate candidates and incumbents running in battleground districts who have failed to file the proper petition signatures to gain the newly formed ballot line created to promote the women's agenda, which has stalled in Albany.

Sen. George Maziarz seems to have sparked a trend by filing petition signatures to run on the GOP line in the fall and then declining the nomination at the very last minute, sending party leaders scrambling to find a replacement.

Six Republicans had filed for the seat including Martins, but only his petition signatures were declared valid by the Board of Elections.

Prior to implementing the top - two system, the number of signatures required to waive that fee was 150, so most minor parties opted to file petitions.

Joe Shikhman, a Grimm campaign aide, filed petition signatures from Reform Party members minutes before the BOE's deadline in April, NY1 reported.

This was after many signatures were ruled invalid following numerous objections to LaCorte's petition filed by the campaign of candidate David Fried.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The city Board of Elections (BOE) voted unanimously on Tuesday to refer the filing of petition signatures for Rep. Daniel Donovan by a Grimm campaign operative to local, state, and federal prosecutors.

But Paladino's campaign manager filed an objection against the teen's petition signatures, saying they're invalid.

Kicinski, of Earlville, filed petitions with 1,308 signatures, but the state invalidated 200, leaving him with 1,108 valid signatures, said John Conklin, speaking for the state Board of Elections in Albany.

The BOE held a hearing after Frank Morano, chair of Staten Island's Reform Party, and a lawyer for Donovan's campaign filed an objection to Shikhman's petition signature.

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.

Petitions, or voter signatures of support, have to be filed with the Board of Elections office by the end of the day.

This week, supporters of Blake's main rival, Marsha Michael, a court attorney favored by the Bronx Democratic County Committee, filed specific objections seeking to invalidate his petition signatures and disqualifying him because he doesn't meet state constitution's residency requirements.