Sentences with phrase «placed on ballots statewide»

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.

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Park Board attorney Bruno Tabis told the board that it might not have the authority to place a referendum question on a ballot because it doesn't have home - rule powers and that authority is denied by statewide park district code.

In Nebraska, the legislature can call a special statewide election to vote on a proposed amendment, but an 80 % vote is required to place any such measures on a special election ballot.

«You may not know Jerry Zandstra, but all of you have a «Jerry Zandstra» in your state: someone who decides, out of the blue, to seek statewide office; pursues that office through less than honorable tactics; fails to collect the minimum number of signatures to even be placed on the ballot; and then blames the State Party and its chairman for his failures,» Anuzis wrote in his response.

Georgia currently requires roughly 60,000 signatures for an independent candidate to place their name on the ballot for a statewide race

The State Supreme Judicial Court ruled on Tuesday that a ballot question to repeal the law can be placed on the statewide ballot on election day in November.

A qualified statewide political party is entitled to have the name of its presidential candidate placed on the general election ballot.

To retain an automatic place on the statewide ballot, the party's candidate for governor must win at least 50,000 votes.

When legislation to place the issue on a statewide ballot next fall was introduced in the House last month as a «courtesy» to Mr. Celeste, only three Democratic lawmakers agreed to sign on as sponsors.

It includes questions placed on ballots through a citizen - initiative process as well as measures that legislatures have put before voters in statewide referendums.

Their platform also calls for a statewide $ 1.9 billion school construction bond referendum placed on the ballot.

(Calif.) With a key committee vote set for today on legislation that would place a $ 9 billion, statewide school facilities bond on the November ballot, one group backing the proposal is already nearly a third of the way toward reaching its campaign finance goal of $ 1.6 million.

The governor also twice signaled his opposition to lawmakers placing a statewide bond measure on the ballot.

With Initiative 1240 on the ballot in Washington this fall, the discussion around whether students would benefit from allowing charter schools to operate is taking place statewide.

That's just a fraction of an estimated $ 8 billion of school infrastructure needs in North Carolina, and state lawmakers are under pressure this year to place a $ 1.9 billion statewide bond referendum for schools on the ballot this fall, although the state Senate, under Berger's leadership, has been reluctant to take up the bond.

That's why her organization is among 15 local, state and national animal - welfare groups behind formation of Stop Puppy Mills Ohio, which aims to place a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution on the November 2018 statewide ballot.