Sentences with phrase «primary date»

The governor said that with the new primary date, plus the uncertainty over redistricting, has helped incumbents at the expense of potential challengers.
Because of unique electoral circumstances this year, congressional primary elections look likely to be held on a completely different primary date than the rest of the elections in the state.
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This was the only primary date that our elected state leaders had any control over.
The new primary date will open up a new filing period.
The leaders of the bipartisan Election Commissioners» Association sent a letter this week to Judge Gary Sharpe that urges legislative leaders to take action on setting state and federal primary dates in order to comply with the federal MOVE Act.
The legislature decided to make it the old State Primary date of June 28.
Senate Minority Leader John Sampson formally endorsed a June primary date in a letter sent to Judge Gary Sharpe, according to a letter obtained by Capital Tonight.
An August primary date still fits within the parameters of the law and 14 other states held primaries that month last year.
Reports that the Senate Republicans have their collective heart set on keeping the state primary date of Sept. 11 rather than on June 26 in conjuction with the federal contests (as determined last week by US District Court Judge Gary Sharpe) set off the hypocrisy alarm for longtime political consultant Jerry Skurnik.
The Congressional primary date in New York has been moved from mid-September to June 26, barring legislative action.
The motion, if so ordered, would require moving primary date for federal office to take place not later than August 18, 2012.
We continue to endorse a permanent primary date change to the fourth Tuesday in June.»
Cuomo also dove into am analysis of the legal situation, saying the ongoing court battle has forced lawmakers to move on the issue, especially given the new Congressional primary date of June 26.
The State further agrees that it needs to act expeditiously to change its September primary date for federal elections to insure compliance with UOCAVA in 2012.»
But Senate Republicans wouldn't agree to it, meaning there will be separate primary dates for Congress and state Legislature.
With the Albany mayoral Democratic primary date approaching on Sept. 12, the candidates vying for the ballot line met for their second debate.
Lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly could not agree on a unified primary date for state and federal elections — a costly consequence for local governments.
If the intra-party warfare is still going on by the state's presidential primary date of April 19, it could be good for the GOP as it battles to retain former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» seat on Long Island in a special election that will also take place on that day.
Pidot hopes to block State Senator Jack Martins from becoming the GOP nominee for the 3rd Congressional District by default, and force a new Republican primary date in August.
Philip Pidot filed a federal lawsuit Monday in an attempt to force a new Republican primary date so he can challenge state Sen. Jack Martins in the 3rd Congressional District.
«The court fully recognizes that a permanent primary date is best left to New York, but has acted as it must to preserve federally protected voting rights,» Sharpe wrote in the decision.
Rosh Hashanah this year begins Sunday, Sept. 13 at sundown and runs through Tuesday, Sept. 15, which was the original primary date.
The US Justice Department, which sued New York in 2010 to force election officials to take extra steps to count military service members» absentee ballots in the general election, is again sounding the alarm on this issue, which could require moving the annual primary date from September to June.
New York still hasn't addressed the issue of military service members absentee ballots, which could require moving the annual primary date from September to June — not something elected officials are too keen on.
With an early primary date the winner will have plenty of time to mount an effective campaign against «Queen» Gillibrand.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, will set the special general election date, which some political operatives believe will occur on the same day as the regular primary date next May.
They also called the Oct. 6 primary date unfair.
At a campaign event yesterday, Mr. Lancman definitively said he won't take advantage of a loophole created by this year's diverging primary dates that theoretically allows a candidate to lose a Congressional primary election and still compete in a state legislative primary occurring months later.
It is still possible for Albany to keep a later primary date for state legislative races, but that would cost money and such a plan could face opposition from a governor that prides himself in fiscal restraint.
The judge's order applies only to federal races, so the state primary date remains unsettled.
Here's the trouble: If legislators don't agree on a bill to move their own primary date to correspond with the one that US District Court Judge Gary Sharpe ordered for the federal races, then Assembly members and senators could theoretically challenge sitting House members and then, if that doesn't work out, fall back to run for their own seats.
On May 27, the Texas Senate rejected the House's version of SB 100, the bill that adjusts various primary dates, and petition deadlines for independent candidates.
Now that the Department of Defense is not granting New York a waiver from the MOVE Act, Senate Republicans late today filed a brief in U.S. District Court in Albany asking that a federal judge move to set an August primary date because the Legislature is unable to cope with the issue on its own.
The South Carolina primary date is a week later for Democrats.
«The NYS Election Commissioner's Association continues to impress the importance of moving the Federal primary date far enough in advance of the November General Election to ensure that no challenges and court actions threaten the timely mailing of overseas ballots,» the commisioners write in the letter dated Monday.
Common Cause also cheered the decision: «It is now incumbent on the Legislature to makes sure that the public does not pay for the travesty of three unnecesary primary dates.
The judge ruled that the traditional primary date of the second Tuesday in September violates the rights of some New York voters, because does not leave enough time to process absentee ballots for overseas military before the general election in November.
The ruling has the potential to set up three separate primary dates come 2012: one for the presidential primary, another for House and Senate races and a third for state and local elections.
After a federal judge ordered the congressional primary to be held in June 26, it seemed that ultimately would be the statewide primary date.
«New York's current September primary date virtually guarantees that such an opportunity is denied to many since September primary elections are rarely certified, ballots prniated and sent out more than several weeks before the General Election.
The new election date coincides with the presidential primary date which Cuomo chose hoping to maximize voter turnout and reduce the cost to taxpayers.
Speaker Silver says that the Senate GOP cost taxpayers through our insistence on a September 11 state legislative primary date.
GPMI decided to nominate Jones on the March 12 special primary date.
Turnout, held down by rain and the unusual Thursday primary date, was just 3 percent of Nassau's 363,000 registered Democrats, results from the county elections board show.
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Currently, the state and congressional primaries are split in New York state because of a 2012 court decision that set the congressional primary date for the fourth Tuesday in June.
The group's Sue Lerner says it would be «ridiculous» to have three different primary dates, and would guarantee that New Yorks» «abysmally voter turnout would be even lower».
Throughout the day, the candidates» teams had worked to boost turnout, urging supporters to turn up at the polls, despite the rare June Primary date.

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