Sentences with phrase «place on the ballot for»

The sometimes - controversial measure can now be placed on the ballot for the general election in November 2018.

Zephyr Teachout, the Democratic primary challenger to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, expects to file more than 40,000 signatures late Thursday to obtain a place on the ballot for the September primary voting.

Committee members approved a reduction of the threshold from 15 % of MPs and MEPs to 10 % in order to select candidates to be placed on a ballot for members, sources said.

Thorsen claimed that the signatures in the petitions were insufficient and therefore Weisberg should not be placed on the ballots for those parties.

Today marks the start of the six - week process of designating petitions, where candidates are typically joined by hordes of volunteers in collecting the required number of signatures to place themselves on the ballot for September's party primaries.

We are collecting signatures to allow Tracye Polson's name to be placed on the ballot for the general election on November 6, 2018.

It means there will be a place on the ballot for women and women's families and women's supporters to make a statement that our rights matter, to make a statement that New York — a place that was the birthplace of the women's rights movement — it's not OK that in this state we don't have a Women's Equality Act.»

Ms. Quinn served as a key surrogate and helped form the Women's Equality Party, which will now have a place on the ballot for the next four years.

Proposition 39 bonds (55 % approval) may only be placed on ballots for regular state and local elections.

Not exact matches

Mr. Kowalski and a cadre of rural MLAs mobilized rural Alberta Tories to vote for Mr. Klein on the second ballot of the 1992 PC leadership contest after Nancy Betkowski placed first by one vote on the first ballot.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

For the second time this season, Alabama has received more than that: the Tide took 60 of 76 first - place votes to easily hold on to No. 1 in this week's ballot, but their average of 25.04 exceeds what should be possible in the BlogPoll calculations.

• Flaming Cincinnati Baseball fans in Cincinnati, burning with pennant fever for the first time in almost a decade, cast two and three ballots each to place five Redlegs on the National League All - Star team, indirectly set in motion half a dozen plans for amending the selection process next year.

The Cary Park District, having only $ 300,000 in its land acquisition fund, voted to place a question on the April ballot asking voters for the money needed for the purchase.

Legislation to make it easier for voters to get a bond referendum placed on the ballot was signed into law by Gov. James Thompson.

Residents petitioned the Wilmette Park District to place the referendum on the ballot in hopes the village would later arrange for private redevelopment of the historic building at 1041 Ridge Rd.

Suits filed by two Du Page County park districts to have non-binding referendum proposals placed on the November ballot could have significance throughout Illinois and provide the basis for similar actions in counties across the state.

Park District Executive Director Barbara Heller said Friday that some board members were still considering placing an advisory referendum measure on the April 17 ballot and may reconsider the issue at a future meeting when all board members are present for a vote.

«My petition operation, once we have secured our place on the Primary ballot, will serve as the genesis of an aggressive Democratic field campaign apparatus for the New Roosevelt Initiative that can help elect New Roosevelt's throughout the State,» Samuels said.

Campaigning for the Ukip leadership will take place throughout August with ballot papers being issued on September 1.

But most places don't require signatures for the mundane process of filing to run for any office the way New York does — or, rather, they offer the choice between paying a filing fee and collecting signatures to get on the ballot.

Mayor Bill de Blasio should be denied a place on the Working Families Party ballot line in November, according to a planned legal challenge that questions the party's process for selecting candidates.

Arts. 3092 and 3111 to 3114 deal with the mechanics of procuring a place on the primary ballot for federal, state, district, or county office.

The trial, scheduled for September 29, has been fast - tracked as the LP candidates are demanding the state place them on the November ballot before -LSB-...]

Evan Davis, head of the Committee for a Constitutional Convention, files suit against the New York State Board of Elections to obtain a court order requiring the question whether to call a state constitutional convention to be placed on the front rather on the back of the ballot this November.

Sliwa's celebrity power in New York City could attract the 50,000 votes needed to give the Reform Party an automatic line on ballots for the next four years, ending the expensive and difficult effort to securing thousands of signatures for petitions to be placed on ballots statewide.

A flurry of phone calls was placed over the weekend in hopes of pushing former Rep. Joe DioGuardi off the Conservative line to make way for the winner of the primary between the two Republicans placed on the ballot at the convention last week in the race against Democratic US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

De Blasio should be denied a place on the Working Families Party ballot line in November, according to a planned legal challenge by the Reform Party that questions the party's process for selecting candidates.

The vote is likely to trigger a leadership contest — but whether Corbyn will automatically get a place on the ballot is unclear as nobody knows for sure what they party rules are.

If the party's nominee for gubernatorial candidate received more than 1 %, then the party is entitled to place its candidates for state and county offices on the general election ballot.

For major - party candidates (Democrat or Republican), prospective candidates file with the county party organization in the county of their residences, and then the parties will conduct a primary whose winners will be placed on the general election ballot.

In the November 2012 election, the Colorado Libertarian Party was the only party, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, to place its own member - nominees for the legislature on the ballot in a majority of contests.

Voters at a polling place on West 58th Street said they cast their ballot for Quinn because they liked her «record of being a pragmatist.»

Guy Smith, a retired executive who served as a spokesman for President Bill Clinton during the impeachment process, has said he intends to collect signatures to win a place on the August primary ballot.

It made a name for itself that year by garnering 50,000 gubernatorial votes on its ballot line for Democratic candidate Peter Vallone — enough to ensure the party a place on future ballots.

Fulton, Missouri (CNN)-- The Republican Party of Indiana announced Friday that just three of the four remaining Republican presidential candidates had filed enough signatures to qualify for a place on the state's primary ballot.

The ballot for the London Assembly - elected politicians who hold the Mayor to account - take place on the same day.

On March 5, 2018, Dunlap announced that a sufficient number of valid signatures had been submitted to place the referendum on the ballot, meaning that ranked - choice voting would be used for federal and state offices in the June 2018 primary electioOn March 5, 2018, Dunlap announced that a sufficient number of valid signatures had been submitted to place the referendum on the ballot, meaning that ranked - choice voting would be used for federal and state offices in the June 2018 primary electioon the ballot, meaning that ranked - choice voting would be used for federal and state offices in the June 2018 primary election.

Earlier today, Obama for America volunteers delivered 56,586 petition signatures to the New York State Board of Elections to place President Obama on the New York ballot for the primary in April.

Both bills make it almost impossible for a new party, or an old minor party that doesn't have FEC recognition, to place a presidential nominee on the ballot.

Former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra ended his bid for the Republican nomination but hopes to secure a place on the November ballot via the Reform Party.

-- Scuttles scuba dreams — Halloran given 10 years: Prosecutors in the Southern District won a lengthy 10 - year sentence for Dan Halloran on Wednesday, after the former Republican city councilman was convicted last year in a scheme to place former Democratic state senator Malcolm Smith on the G.O.P.'s ballot line in the 2013 mayoral race.

2014 was a rougher year for the WFP, with Mr. Cuomo ignoring their pleas to help Democrats retake the State Senate and the Green Party winning a higher place on the ballot.

Volunteers for President Obama's re-election campaign delivered 56,586 petition signatures to the state Board of Elections today in order to place the tippy top of the 2012 Democratic ticket on the state's ballot.

The contrived nature of the system is even more abundantly clear when it comes to the discriminatory burdens placed on the nation's minor parties and independent candidates, whether the issue is unfair ballot access laws or the arbitrary and exclusionary 15 percent polling threshold imposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Greens — or any other third - party presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates this autumn.

Was it fair to require a DTS candidate to gather over 176,000 signatures to qualify as a candidate for Governor, and was it fair for DTS legislative candidates to have to collect more than 8,000 signatures to have a place on the ballot?

Francesca Carlow is well on her way to securing a place on the Democratic Party primary ballot to become the Democratic nominee for New York's 6th State Senate District.

A Faso spokesman says that according to the state Board of Elections, voters in Columbia County were instructed to place their ballots into a separate slot on the scanning machine for provisional ballots and that replacement ballots were to be at all polling places no later than 4 p.m.

Welcome to the Race they all need to be placed on the ballot and given a chance to make their case to the GOP rank and file, and for a vetting.

Denenberg's name will remain on the November ballot, as Democrats abandoned their plan to nominate him for a judgeship and run a replacement candidate in his place.