Sentences with phrase «presidential ballot»

The Electoral Commission (EC), has said it may consider a total recount of Presidential ballots in the 2016 December elections, if it realizes upon collation that the vote margin is too close to declare a clear winner.

The Green Party and the Constitution Party sued Georgia over presidential ballot access on May 25, 2012.

• The NPP plans to conceal presidential ballot papers in their sleeves or in the battery compartments of their mobile phones and drop them in the ballot boxes on voting day to create over-voting leading to annulment of votes.

The ballot qualified American Independent Party in California, which was allied with the Constitution Party and its predecessor, the US Taxpayers Party, for the purpose of presidential ballot access from 1992 to 2004, was taken over by a faction that supported Alan Keyes in 2008.

Georgia is one of only two states in which no petition concerning presidential ballot access has succeeded during the last twelve years.

This was after, Police in Kumasi had taken possession of three bags stuffed with materials reported to be thumb - printed presidential ballot papers found at the Madison lodge at TUC in the Ashanti Regional capital.

This gives us the 2012 presidential ballot line.

But thank God, the goodly Yar» Adua himself (God bless his soul) was unconvinced, though surrendering the most looted presidential ballot in Nigerian history would appear a no - option.

According to this story, Americans Elect is about to begin petitioning for presidential ballot status in Arkansas.

Although there is no new news in this newspaper story, the story is the most comprehensive account yet published about the Illinois ballot access challenges involving the general election presidential ballot in 2012.

Winger also notes that a valid method for independent candidates to appear on the Michigan presidential ballot had been established by the 1976 campaign of Eugene McCarthy and the 1980 campaign of Gus Hall.

«If we can obtain presidential ballot access in forty two states, the Reform Party will return to form, and once again stand proud in opposition to the political establishment».

On July 17, U.S. District Richard W. Story dismissed the Green Party and Constitution Party ballot access lawsuit which challenges Georgia's petition requirement for minor party and independent presidential ballot access.

The reconsideration request points out that the case involves presidential ballot access.

The Jill Stein for President campaign announced this morning that it had succeeded in collecting over 3,000 signatures of registered Utah voters to form the Green Party of Utah and to place the new party on the Utah presidential ballot.

As the Arab Spring played out over the past year and a half — as Egypt's first free presidential ballots were totaled up in late May, and Morsi faced off against a former general, Ahmed Shafik, in June — social media gave a platform to the competing voices and points of view silenced for decades under the jackboots of various Arab regimes.

The Police in Kumasi on Monday intercepted three bags stuffed with thumb - printed presidential ballot papers found at the Madison Lodge at TUC in Kumasi.

The most difficult petition requirement that the U.S. Supreme Court has ever upheld concerning presidential ballot access was the Texas requirement, which was and continues to be a petition of 1 % of the last gubernatorial vote.

This was after, Police in Kumasi had taken possession of three bags stuffed with materials reported to be thumb - printed presidential ballot papers found at the Madison lodge at TUC in the Ashanti Regional...

Recently the New Jersey elections department approved the idea that petitions for presidential ballot access, for independent candidates and for the nominees of unqualified parties, may be circulated with no presidential or vice-presidential candidates listed.

With two deeply unpopular nominees on the presidential ballot this year, the number of voters in Maryland who wrote in their own candidate for president more than tripled, according to state election data.

No political party outside the dominant two have managed to obtain more than 7percent of the presidential ballot since a return to democracy in 1992.

But it's a loooooooong time before anyone casts a presidential ballot, and in the meantime, we shouldn't miss the myriad OTHER places where the «net is changing the way politics works.

Note that the existing citation explicitly says, «other critical politicians permitted on to the presidential ballot».

But the electoral commission chief on Monday pointed to other critical politicians permitted on to the presidential ballot and shrugged off Mr Navalny's talk of «millions of supporters».

In other words, the electors nominated by the Florida Democratic convention in 2012, when they met in December, voted for Barack Obama on their Presidential ballot, and separately voted for Joe Biden on their Vice Presidential ballot, because that's what the Democratic convention in Florida decided that's what their electors would do when they were awarded the votes.

The Cook Political Report rates it a D +1, meaning a tiny edge to a generic Democrat vs a generic Republican (Rangel's seat, by contrast is a D +42) so with two New Yorkers atop the presidential ballots, it's really anyone's seat to win.

In 2012 the party obtained a little over fifty percent of the presidential ballot and gained 20 seats in the Greater Accra region.

Mayor Bloomberg likes the founder of Americans Election, which is trying to put a viable third party candidate on the presidential ballot, but he hasn't contributed to the cause.

The ballot for positions on the presidential ballot paper has however been suspended until the court cases filed by some disqualified presidential aspirants have been dealt with, Mr Eric Dzakpasu, Head of Communications at the EC has said.

Working with the New York State Democratic Party, this represents more than eleven times the legally required amount of signatures to place a candidate on the presidential ballot.

The Stein campaign confirmed today that it expects Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala to appear on the presidential ballot in the major Mid Atlantic states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Constitution Party presidential candidate and former 5th District congressman Virgil Goode will remain on Virginia's presidential ballot this November.

On April 22, the Constitution and Green Parties of Georgia appealed their presidential ballot access case to the 11th circuit.

Minor parties appeared on the presidential ballot in a few states last month, even though they submitted no presidential elector candidates.

Underlining the Republican hue of the district, Mitt Romney led President Barack Obama 51 percent to 42 percent in a presidential ballot matchup.

The outcome of the election was not known for more than a month after the balloting ended because of the extended process of counting and then recounting Florida's presidential ballots.

7 When you drop the presidential ballot in the box, proceed to the next ballot table for the parliamentary ballot

The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) have picked the third and fifth spot respectively on the presidential ballot for the upcoming presidential elections.

He relied on precedents that do not involve presidential elections, and seemed not to notice that the case only concerns presidential ballot access.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - U.S. Rep. John Katko says he wrote in the name of South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a rising star in the Republican Party, on his presidential ballot on Tuesday.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard W. Story, a Clinton appointee, ruled against the Constitution Party and the Green Party in their presidential ballot access case on July 17, before the state had even answered the complaint.

The NPP had earlier accused the company of handing the printing plates of the presidential ballot paper to a man believed to be an official of the...

The idea of a Trump withdrawal is fraught with difficulty, though, because early voting has started in some states and the presidential ballot is already set in many others.

Deborah Hughes, executive director of at the Susan B. Anthony House and Museum, says in a year when two women are on the presidential ballot in most states, many people feel a very real emotional connection to the work of the suffragist leader.

«According to my agent, the plate that he saw was exactly the size of the presidential ballot.

He added that the party is eager to have its presidential candidate represented on the Presidential ballot ahead of the polls.

Katko said that he will either write in a candidate on the presidential ballot line or vote for a third - party candidate.