Sentences with phrase «qualified minor party»

In Kentucky, if a group polls 2 % of the vote for President, it is a qualified minor party for the next four years, and can nominate by convention, with no petitioning needed.

A qualified minor party may nominate candidates for the general election just as a major party does.

In Hawaii, Nebraska, and South Dakota, there are ballot - qualified minor parties who could have run someone without a great deal of effort, but no one chose to run.

But New Mexico forces qualified minor parties to submit separate petitions for each of their nominees.

August 3, 2011: Blue Oregon Has Lengthy Story on Working Families Party August 1, 2011: Four Qualified Minor Parties May Have Contested September Primary in Schenectady, New York Mayoral Race July 24, 2011: New York Special U.S. House Election Will Have 3 Candidates on Ballot July 1, 2011: Pennsylvania Gets its First Working Families Party Office - Holder

The Florida Secretary of State has many regulations that require qualified minor parties to conduct certain activities.

August 1, 2011: Four Qualified Minor Parties May Have Contested September Primary in Schenectady, New York Mayoral Race July 24, 2011: New York Special U.S. House Election Will Have 3 Candidates on Ballot July 1, 2011: Pennsylvania Gets its First Working Families Party Office - Holder

However, it turns out that the 2009 law that changed independent candidate petition deadlines from September to June also changed the deadlines for qualified minor parties to submit their nominees for the November ballot.

Because the New York congressional primary is far earlier than it has been in the past, the qualified minor parties of New York also faced a requirement this year that they make early choices for U.S. Senate in party meetings.

State - qualified minor parties nominate candidates by convention.

Some states provide qualified minor parties with their own presidential primaries, and minor parties have used presidential primaries in at least a few states, in all presidential elections starting in 1972.

The Texas ballot - qualified minor parties held their nominating conventions on the weekend of June 9 - 10.

According to this story, new regulations will allow qualified minor parties to have representatives on county canvass boards, and there is also now a procedure for representatives of independent candidate campaigns.

Not exact matches

Mangano, who is awaiting trial on federal corruption charges, has yet to declare that he is not seeking a third term, but his only remaining option to qualify for the Nov. 7 general election would be to distribute petitions to be an independent candidate under a nonestablished minor party.

If he can be guaranteed that no other candidate will receive enough backing at this month's Republican state convention to qualify for a primary, he said he will abandon his hopes of running on the Reform minor party line for governor.

It is possible that three presidential candidates, all of whom are seeking a minor party presidential nomination, will qualify for primary season matching funds this year.

If a minor party nominee does decide to qualify using the independent procedure, he or she is not permitted to have a ballot label other than «independent.»

Kaiman and Stern said Martins, a Mineola Republican who needed a minimum of 900 signatures to qualify for the minor party line, only collected about 600.

Mangano, a Republican who is fighting federal corruption charges, missed Tuesday's deadline to submit at least 1,500 signatures to qualify as a new or unestablished minor party candidate in the general election, according to the county Board of Elections.

The measure has had the opposite effect, making it harder and more expensive for minor party candidates to qualify for the primary election ballot.

Minor parties can qualify for free time based on their level of electoral support at the last election and if they are contesting more than 10 % of seats at the current election.

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This effort has caused some consternation among the governor's fellow Democrats, who worry this WEP push could hurt their effort to re-take the majority because most Democratic Senate candidates were not able to qualify to run on the minor party line.

State Senator Bill Avery of Nebraska has agreed to introduce a bill to make it easier for minor parties to remain ballot - qualified in Nebraska.

Similarly, in New Zealand, some voters who preferred a large party have voted for the minor party's local candidate to ensure it qualifies for list seats on the back of winning a single electorate.

August 9, 2011: Libertarian Party Sues Ohio Over Inadequacy of New Ballot Access Law, and Also Over Due Process August 8, 2011: Ohio Secretary of State Refuses to Keep Minor Parties on 2012 Ballot July 26, 2011: Ohio Libertarians Ask Secretary of State to Leave the Qualified 4 Minor Parties on Ballot for 2012

Both minor party candidates only qualified for the November ballot because, in each case, only one major party member filed to run in the primary.

Some jurisdictions qualify this presumption and find that if the parties agree to joint custody, this creates a presumption that it is in the best interests of the minor child.