Sentences with phrase «placed on the ballot in»

WASHINGTON (AP) Candidates outside of the two major parties are struggling to get a place on the ballot in some U.S. states.

Jeremy Corbyn this morning suggested he might take legal action against Labour's National Executive Committee if he is denied a place on the ballot in the forthcoming leadership contest.

If it passes the legislature, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz has until October 2 to sign it in order for the act to be placed on the ballot in November.

As incumbent leader, Mr Corbyn is guaranteed a place on the ballot in a leadership contest following the vote.

Up for grabs between the Greens and the Working Families Party is a place on the ballot in 2018.

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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.

The site of their ministry is not the institution but the house where they live, the place where they work, and the political communities represented on the ballots in their voting booths.

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.

They had 4 Players placed on the All - Star Ballot and they will look to help the rest of the group on Sunday Night in an effort to keep the hot - streak going against the always tough # 5 Team Zimmerman.

West Virginia was No. 4 in the Week 7 BlogPoll, and earned one first - place vote; now, the «Eers are No. 17, falling 13 spots after their belly flop in Lubbock, and appear no higher than No. 9 on any ballot.

• 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.

I placed theBroncos fifth on my final ballot, up four places from their No. 9 ranking inthe previous poll and just ahead of Louisville (12 — 1), whose Orange Bowlvictory over Wake Forest did not carry the same cachet as Boise's postseasonwin, and Wisconsin (12 — 1), which didn't have to play Ohio State because of theBig Ten schedule rotation and gained only 201 yards in its Capital One Bowl winover Arkansas.

If her question is placed on the November ballot and enough voters are in favor of dissolving the district, Fiddyment and other like - minded Gurnee residents plan to ask the voters in the March primary if they want to re-establish a park district.

The Glen Ellyn and Oak Brook Park Districts will proceed with a lawsuit Wednesday against the Du Page County Board of Election Commissioners despite a successful petition drive in Glen Ellyn to place three alternative referendum questions on the ballot.

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.

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.

While New Trier and the park district have yet to make a final decision of whether or not to place the referendum requests on the November ballot, officials from both organizations said they are talking to each other and understand the potential challenges of asking voters to support two measures in one election.

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.

With 25,000 voters in the park district, 2,500 signatures were needed to get the question placed on the March ballot.

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.

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.

According to the school district's attorney, six candidates were running in the election, but due to legal issues, only four were initially placed on the original ballots.

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.

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is set to appear on ballots in at least 39 states, and party activists are working in places such as swing state Ohio to get his name before voters this fall.

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

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Generally, the secretary of state places candidates who are «advocated or recognized as candidates in national news media» on the primary ballot.

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.

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.

Schneiderman, one of five Democratic AG contenders (all of whom were placed on the ballot at the party's convention in Rye last week), released the following statement on his decision:

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.

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.

A federal judge ruled Thursday that a ban on ballot selfies in New York should remain in placing, determining that any change now would create havoc on Election Day.

The WFP gets its own line in a prime place on a New York state ballot, and if they'd put another candidate on it, that would have siphoned away significant votes from Cuomo in the general.

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 contestIn 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 contestin a majority of contests.

On February 21, New York Assembly bill 204, the «ballot - friendly act», was placed on third reading in the AssemblOn February 21, New York Assembly bill 204, the «ballot - friendly act», was placed on third reading in the Assemblon third reading in the Assembly.

But Conservative Party leaders, who huddled at their annual meeting in Albany over the last two days, are concerned with both the name of the line and the party's place on the ballot.

A former counsel to Gov. Mario Cuomo is suing the state Board of Elections in order to require the upcoming ballot question on whether to hold a constitutional convention be placed on the front of the ballot presented to voters.

Very special thanks to our representatives in the state Legislature — Sen. Betty Little, Assemblyman Steve Englebright, Assemblyman Dan Stec and Assemblyman Bill Jones — whose vision and tireless efforts earned this proposal a place on the ballot.

The New Alliance Party made history in 1988, when it placed its presidential nominee, Lenora Fulani, on the ballot in all 50 states.

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.

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.

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.

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

After speeches, registered Gardiner Democrats in attendance will cast their ballots and the winners will get the party's nomination and be placed on the Democratic line on the November ballot.

The minimum - wage campaign should at least give them greater relevance in the national Democratic conversation, if not a place on the ballot.

-- 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.

Republicans in the Legislature have placed Initiative 42A, which will appear alongside Initiative 42, on the ballot.

Davis said opponents also could benefit from having the proposal in a prominent place on the ballot.