Sentences with phrase «placed on the ballot by»

The Democratic convention officially gets underway in Rye this morning with a breakfast hosted by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer, who are expected to easily placed on the ballot by the party faithful.

In Tennessee, a presidential candidate seeking the nomination of a political party is typically placed on the ballot by the secretary of state.

Today's political landscape in California is far different and the proposal to remove the ban — something that most educators have always advocated and many schools quietly ignored — drew almost no news coverage when it was placed on the ballot by the Legislature in the summer of 2015.

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.

Proposition 14 was a proposed constitutional amendment placed on tlie ballot by real - estate leaders, designed to repeal an existing open - housing law and to prevent any future Legislature from passing such a law.

Off topic but I am posting here... by taking voters off the voter roles, it not only disenfranchises them on election day, it takes them off the direct mailings that remind people to vote, including sample ballot, polling places, etc..

They placed 3 on the All Star Ballot and are just a Game back of the key 14th Seed which is currently held by Team Malvin..

He added that there was no discussion by the board — either before voting to place the issues on the ballot or since — about any of the three issues.

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.

Though park officials are portraying the questions as a way to gauge community interest in a variety of issues, others suggest placing the questions on the ballot was a calculated move to avoid any recall efforts by residents.

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

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.

He and Bruce Blakeman were placed on the ballot at the GOP convention, but DioGuardi, who had been endorsed by the Conservative Party, did not.

The first of two ways an amendment can be incorporated into the state constitution takes at least four years: two separately elected state legislatures must first vote to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot; then the majority of New Yorkers must vote on it and pass it by referendum.

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.

They rejected an 11th - hour plea by Bridgeport Mayor Joseph P. Ganim to overlook his criminal record and place him on the 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.

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.

Parties that are not ballot - qualified can still place their presidential nominees on the November ballot, with the party label, if they submit 4,000 signatures by early September.

It needs to be approved by the current legislature before it can be placed on the ballot.

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.

The Energy Minister had admitted to being «shattered» by the scrutiny she has faced since securing a place on the ballot.

If it passes, it then needs to be signed by Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz before it's placed on the general election ballot in November to be approved or disapproved by the voters.

[21][22] He was placed on the primary ballot by the signature of over 1800 petitioners.

While turnout fell heavily in places where all - postal ballots were held in 2004 but not this year, elsewhere support fell on average by only a point or so.

A Brooklyn judge on Monday rebuffed a challenge by Gov. Cuomo's campaign to the candidacy of Democratic rival Zephyr Teachout, placing the lefty law professor on the Sept. 9 primary ballot.

The outcome of the primary then will be decided by 103 absentee ballots and an undetermined number of affidavit votes — votes cast by voters whose eligibility to vote could not immediately be determined at the polling place — which will be counted at the Ulster County Board of Elections on Wednesday Sept. 21, starting at 10 a.m. Absentee ballots needed to be postmarked by Sept. 13 and received no later than Sept. 21.

NEW YORK — Republican Rick Lazio said Thursday he is confident he will be the party's nominee for governor, and he bristled at the notion that delegates to the state GOP convention might allow a contested primary by voting to place rival Steve Levy on the ballot as well.

Certification of places on the primary ballot for Democrats, and the November ballot for Republican Faso (who has no primary challenger) will be by May 3.

The convention referendum, being considered next month by voters, is placed on the ballot every 20 years.

Only one voter had cast a ballot by 8 a.m. at a polling place at Albany High School on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015.

«I placed a call to Sheriff Howard earlier this morning to congratulate him on his apparent win and also to tell him that, given the extraordinary closeness of the race, I believe it is prudent and sensible to await the official vote certification by the Erie County Board of Elections, which includes the tally of all absentee ballots,» says Tolbert in a statement issued by his campaign.

When 3,500 citizens of Clarkstown signed a petition asking for a Term Limits referendum to be placed on the 2011 ballot he insulted their intelligence by saying that anyone coming out of a supermarket «just wants to sign a piece of paper so they can get on with their lives».

No group has qualified to place a presidential candidate on the ballot by either type of petition, in over ten years.

Turner's request asks for all unscanned ballots, all ballots not counted and reasons why, all scanned ballots placed on a DVD, every ballot ruled invalid by the Board of Elections, and all absentee ballots and ballots cast at the BOE.

California — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R): The four reform propositions placed on the 2005 ballot by Schwarzenegger were all defeated, a sign that Golden State voters may have tired of the Governator's schtick.

The executive committee picked Macey by majority vote, he said, «to be placed on the ballot on the Republican line in the upcoming general election.»

Press Statement by Andy Owusu, Special Aide to Chairman Wontumi: My attention has been drawn to a statement circulating on social media supposedly issued by one Evans Nuamah, said to be the manager of Madison Hotel, the place where some NDC thumb - printed ballot papers were seized earlier this morning.

The main issue is the method by which independent candidates must submit their signatures, compared to the easier method required for candidates petitioning for a place on a primary ballot.

The 22 affidavit ballots are for voters whose names were not on lists at polling places and whose eligibility was verified afterward by elections officials.

[12] Alaska Constitution Party Chairman J.R. Myers succeeded in submitting the required 3,017 valid petition signatures by August 19 for a place on the November ballot.

Voters should prepare to vote on May 22 by checking their polling places and viewing sample ballots at GoVoteKY.com.

Article 14 of Part 2 of the New Hampshire Constitution states, «Every member of the house of representatives shall be chosen by ballot; and, for two years, at least, next preceding his election shall have been an inhabitant of this state; shall be, at the time of his election, an inhabitant of the town, ward, place, or district he may be chosen to represent and shall cease to represent such town, ward, place, or district immediately on his ceasing to be qualified as aforesaid.»

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.

Mr. Sambevski's name came up last year in an operation run by Frank Sparaco and Superintendent Ballard to collect absentee ballots for the minority party lines to place Ballard's name on those lines in the 2013 election for Highway Superintendent between him and Democrat Dennis Malone.

With a permanent place on the ballot secured by his last run, he was able to devote more time this summer to campaigning, rather than dealing with the requirement to gather enough petition signatures.

In Arizona an effort by one church group to place a referendum opposing «atheistic teaching» on next month's ballot failed to obtain the required 55,000 petition signatures.»

This is a smart film that arrives in theaters just about the time that the Electoral College will vote a disastrous choice by mandate of «the people,» putting in office a man that received only 27 % of the votes of those who were eligible to cast ballots and who will take his place in the White House because forty - three percent of registered voters stayed home on Election Day (or went to a bar, or pool hall or whatever.)

I mentioned over the weekend that Shape is the type of film that can win on a preferential ballot by virtue of garnering an overwhelming tally of first - place votes, ending the contest in the first round of counting.

In Idaho, a Homestead Exemption initiative, which would exempt the first $ 50,000 of assessed value on residences from property tax, was placed on the November ballot by petition.