Sentences with phrase «qualified party»

The bill would only permit partisan labels for candidates who are members of qualified parties, so it would not treat all candidates equally.

It lowers the number of signatures for a newly - qualifying party from 2.5 % of the last gubernatorial vote to exactly 1,000 signatures.

Generally federal courts feel that if the requirements to get a newly - qualifying party on the ballot are reasonable, states are free to dump them off the ballot after any particular election.

Certain other qualified parties received a different letter, saying they are in danger of losing their qualified status because they didn't make the required financial report for 2011.

Of course, the six ballot - qualified parties don't need a petition.

Unfortunately, when independent qualified parties examined the situation more closely, they found that the claims were wildly exaggerated.

In addition, the personal representative of the estate of the deceased person can file a wrongful death suit on behalf of any of the above qualifying parties.

It will lower the number of signatures for a newly - qualifying party from 3 % of the last gubernatorial vote to 1.5 % of the last gubernatorial vote.

On February 27, the Oklahoma Senate unanimously passed SB 668, which eases ballot access for newly - qualifying parties in midterm years, but does not reduce the number of signatures in presidential years.

Cuomo and his running mate Kathy Hochul in 2014 received more than 50,000 votes on the WEP line, qualify the party for ballot access this year.

In 2014, he finished third with 184,419 votes, which moved the Green Party up to the 4th line among ballot qualified parties.

The odd part of this story is that neither the Secretary of State, nor the legislator who is quoted in the story, seems to have thought that a good solution would be to let small qualified parties nominate by convention.

One solution would be to let small qualified parties nominate by convention instead of by primary.

When considering the Government's respect for Parliament, it's confusing that you should cite a House of Lords committee of all things... Would this be the same House of Lords that Labour «reformed» by decimating and then stuffing with ill - qualified party stooges and donors?

The only qualified party that gained registrants between the old tally and the new tally is the Libertarian Party.

The issue is a discriminatory law that lets two qualified parties jointly nominate the same candidate and puts such a candidate on the ballot twice; yet when two unqualified parties jointly nominate the same candidate, the candidate can only appear on the ballot once, with both party labels squeezed into the tiny space next to his or her name.

«We have no interest from qualified parties at that [lower] pay scale,» Supervisor Scott Russell said during Tuesday's board meeting.

Oregon, like many states, lets ballot - qualified parties change their names.

Some ballot - qualified parties still have not chosen their presidential and vice-presidential nominees.

New Mexico is the only state that requires qualified parties to submit petitions for their nominees (notice this is not the same thing as states that requires candidates to file signatures to appear on a primary ballot; those people aren't nominees until they have won the primary).

States that let any ballot - qualified party choose whether to nominate by convention or primary are Alabama, South Carolina, and Virginia.

It's pompous and arrogant to cite the word «science» as your position and the many qualified parties who dissent as «anti-science».

Assessed what was needed in each apartment and either provided repair services personally, or arranged for repairs by more qualified parties

Qualified parties in North Dakota are the Democratic, Republican, Constitution, and Libertarian Parties.

Late in 2012, the South Carolina Elections Commission removed the Americans Elect Party from its list of qualified parties, because the party never held the required meetings to elect state party officers.

The four ballot - qualified parties on in Alaska are: Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, and Alaskan Independence Party.

His 184,419 votes moved the Green Party up to the 4th line among ballot qualified parties.

The party recommends that the Wilson - Pakula Law be repealed for large political parties such as the Democratic and Republican Parties, but preserved for smaller qualified parties.

The bill raised the primary ballot signature requirement for candidates of large ballot - qualified parties from 1 percent of the party's previous gubernatorial general election vote to 1 percent of the party's total registered members.

States that provide that small ballot - qualified parties nominate by convention in all cases, or virtually all cases, are Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

The government could then re-tender or re-award the returned spectrum to a qualified party — think Wind — for the same price.

This is the bill that says a newly - qualifying party that only wishes to participate in the presidential election may get on the ballot as late as July.

The existing law requires newly - qualifying parties to qualify by early January of the election year.

The Reform Party never had qualified status in West Virginia, even though it was a qualified party immediately after the 1996 election in 32 states.

On March 16, a Florida circuit court upheld the 2011 law that says no one may seek the nomination of a political party if that person was a member of another qualified party in the preceding year.

The attackers are confusing signing a ballot access petition for a newly - qualifying party with an endorsement of that newly - qualifying party.

The six ballot - qualified parties are Democratic, Republican, Conservative, Green, Independence, and Working Families.

The six ballot - qualified parties are Democratic, Republican, Read more»

However, Virginia law does not require the presidential elector candidates of qualified parties to observe any residency requirement.

On May 22, as reported here earlier, a U.S. District Court ruled that California's ballot access law for newly - qualifying parties is probably unconstitutional, and enjoined the state from enforcing the deadline.

I write from the unique perspective of being the one person who played a critical role in establishing both the Greens and the Working Families Party (WFP) as ballot - qualified parties in NYS.

See this story, which says that Montana hasn't printed up primary ballots for any qualified party, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, since 1996, when the Reform Party had a contested primary.

The original decision in this case, handed down on February 3, 2012, struck down the state's ballot access law for newly - qualifying parties.

Vermont state law provides for open primary elections, meaning that a voter does not have to be registered with a ballot - qualified party in advance in order to participate in its primary.