Sentences with phrase «primary election process»

So DNAinfo has rounded up some of the most frequently asked questions about the New York primary election process and gathered some answers:

The GOP and the DNC do this through a primary election process.

There is a combination of factors at play here I believe to be outside the scope of this question, but the important takeaway here is that the US path to public office rewards extremism due to the primary election process.

Not exact matches

He rejected the path of truth and upheld the primary election that its process was characterized with corruption.

Just as in 2008, Obama will be able to go back to his small donors again and again throughout the primary and general election process, while his chief opponents (in this case, Romney and Perry) are relying (overwhelmingly so far) on a relatively small group of geographically or professionally restricted donors who'll hit their legal maximum on campaign giving quickly.

If you imagine the American presidential election as a single constituency (for the sake of ease), both parties put up a wide range of candidates who, through the primary process, voters finely tune to the two best options.

Since we have discovered the dirtiness in the process of the last primary election, it is necessary, as change agents, we speak against the corruption in the process.

@user4012 about 2), the final election day is just the end of a lengthy electoral process; if voters are better educated and use that education all through the process a demagogue should be stopped earlier in the process (so, for a party supporter it would not be end as [My demagogue] vs [candidate from other party], because [My demagogue] would have been voted out in the primaries; in these primaries such a voter would have the option to vote for other candidates more ideologically acceptable).

But the most important lesson for those of us on the trailis that the primaries process itself has been hugely energising for Americans, a country with even worse turnout than Britain in recent elections.

As democrats, having discovered the fraud in the process, we submitted ourselves to the process of redress as stipulated in the Primary Election Guidelines of APC, believing that we are safe in the hands of supposed democrats.

Among places where primaries are held, what are typical rules to select a new candidate after a primary has been held but before the official election process starts?

But open primaries would just make elections into such a long and arduous process where government is seen as this far away and dangerous place, that we could end up with an American style anti-government culture, which would make ending child poverty and funding public services much harder.

He rejected the path of truth and upheld the primary election that its process was characterized with corruption,» the aspirants said at their joint press conference.

2008 provides a useful example, when the long Democratic primary process helped Obama build a nationwide grassroots structure that helped prove decisive in the general election.

com editor Colin Delany and including recent lessons learned from the 2010 elections and the 2012 presidential primary process, the guide details how campaigns can use various digital tools in effective ways, including extensive tips on integrating technologies to get the most from each.

Recall that some agents disrupted the primary election held on May 5 when they noticed that the process has been manipulated to favor a particular aspirant.

That means the process for selecting Democratic nominees for vacated congressional seats depends on the timing around the June 26 primary, according to a spokesman for the state board of elections.

A federal judge ruled last year that New York's traditional date for the primary, the second Tuesday of September, occurs too late for military absentee ballots to be processed before the general election.

Most obviously prefer to forego the primary process because it's one less election they have to win.

New York utilizes a closed primary process, in which the selection of a party's candidates in an election is limited to registered party members.

A total of 32 aspirants are vying to flag the party's flag in the July 14 governorship election after President Muhammadu Buhari's Special Adviser on Political Matters, Sen. Babafemi Ojudu, had withdrawn from the race, alleging that the processes leading to the rescheduled primary was designed to favour a particular aspirant.

During both the primary process and the general election, Obama's campaign set numerous fundraising records, particularly in the quantity of small donations.

But voter turnout in primaries, like the New York governor's race, is abysmally low, so the ideologues on the far left and far right — and the special interests who throw money at the elections — control the process.

In the recently published book «An Encounter with the Spymaster,» this writer disclosed categorically that «the movement of large cash in local and foreign currencies by the two major political parties, APC and PDP, to win primaries and general elections in 2015 were discovered by security and anti-corruption agencies but tactically suppressed to avoid embarrassing outcries that could tarnish the electoral processes and rubbish the image of the country.

We therefore oppose the introduction of a primary for the selection of Labour's candidate for London Mayor or for any other election and call on Ray Collins to recommend that Labour's selections processes continue to involve Labour's membership (both affiliates and individuals) and to recommend they are not replaced with primaries.

Election officials decided to resort to the older lever voting machines during Tuesday's primaries because the newer electronic machines used in 2012 confused voters, sparked long lines and caused problems during the tallying process.

This antiquated system blocks access to voting in primary elections, and reduces citizens» ability to participate in our democratic process.

«The city board has made it unnecessarily complicated,» said state board co-chair Douglas Kellner, who urged the city to abandon the cumbersome process before the state primary and general election this fall.

The issue of hydro fracking played a role in the recent Democratic primary for governor in New York, and those who oppose the gas drilling process hope it will influence the general election, as well.

Elections commissioners hope to reduce the cost of New York's expensive political process by holding only one primary in June.

The Political Committee of the Caucus of Working Educators will be embarking upon its endorsement process for the upcoming May 2018 Primary Elections.

that denounced special elections for circumventing the primary process, allowing county leaders to choose their nominees without input from voters.

According to him, the ability of the security personnel to stay neutral during the process would go a long way to enhance the peaceful nature of the parliamentary primary, adding that whoever emerges victorious would be seen to have won a free and fair election.

Goldfeder also referred to a New York Post editorial that denounced special elections for circumventing the primary process, allowing county leaders to choose their nominees without input from voters.

Voters in the 62nd Assembly District who are also voting in either of the presidential primaries must fill out two separate ballots and submit them to separate scanning machines, a process the Board of Elections is confident it can undertake.

While expressing confidence in the ability of the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, to conduct credible primaries in Ekiti despite claims in some quarters that there was a plot to manipulate the process, the former Commissioner for Youth, Sports and Social Development in Lagos State said that the most acceptable aspirant must be fielded by the APC if it hoped to win the election.

Problems with the current process were highlighted after the June 26 primary, when unofficial election night tallies showed U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel beating his closest challenger by a respectable margin.

No matter who wins in the Democratic primary, Mager said he sees the election as a positive force for the party and the political process.

Elections Commissioner Juan Carlos «J.C.» Polanco said the new election night process will be in place for the September state and local primary eElections Commissioner Juan Carlos «J.C.» Polanco said the new election night process will be in place for the September state and local primary electionselections.

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.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS Notices of change of address from registered voters received by June 8th by a county board of elections must be processed and entered in the records in time for the Congressional Primary.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS Notices of change of address from registered voters received by August 24th by a county board of elections must be processed and entered in the records in time for the State & Local Primary.

In addition, why allow the APC to dance naked in Anambra in the name of primary election and cause palpable confusion in the process?

«Election is a process, no bad process can produce a good election, so all parties must conduct acceptable primaries,» Election is a process, no bad process can produce a good election, so all parties must conduct acceptable primaries,» election, so all parties must conduct acceptable primaries,» it said.

State Senator Adriano Espaillat on Monday criticized the New York City Board of Elections for botching the voting process in last week's primary.

Like previous special election in New York's 20th and 23rd districts, the nominees would be chosen by the county chairmen rather than a primary — a process that might well have cost Republicans the 23rd as the conservative base revolted against the choice of moderate state Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava as the party's standard - bearer.

Asked why the county organization is going with Diaz, Garcia said, «It's the same old musical chairs» in the Bronx, where favored elected politicians move between Albany and City Hall, often being selected in a party process for a special election rather than through a primary.

Given Ms. Clinton's high unfavorability ratings and Mr. Sanders» high favorability, plus his appeal to independents as the primary and caucus processes have shown, it is hard to see Ms. Clinton as having the longer coattails in the general election.

The issue of hydrofracking played a role in the recent Democratic primary for governor in New York, and those who oppose the gas drilling process hope it will influence the general election, as well.

Moreover, Connecticut's election laws forced primary challengers into a costly and time - consuming qualifying process that led other Democrats to conclude the road was too steeply uphill to proceed.