Sentences with phrase «qualified voters of the party»

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The extent to which the state controls the primary election machinery appears from the Texas statutes, as follows: Art. 3118, Vernon's Texas Statutes, provides for the election of a county chairman for each party holding a primary by the «qualified voters of the whole county,» and of one member of the party's county executive committee by the «qualified voters of their respective election precincts.»

1 A party is qualified if it meets one of three conditions: (1) in the last gubernatorial election, one of its statewide candidates polled at least two percent of the statewide vote; (2) the party's membership is at least one percent of the statewide vote at the last preceding gubernatorial election; or (3) voters numbering at least 10 percent of the statewide vote at the last gubernatorial election sign a petition stating that they intend to form a new party.

To completely restore democracy and to assure voters that their vote truly counts, we need to couple this reform with Instant Runoff Voting to break the stranglehold of the increasingly polarized two - party system and open the field up to qualified alternative candidates.

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.

This is the case over whether Kansas must let voters register as members of parties that are not ballot - qualified but which are active in elections in that state.

The issue in the lawsuit is whether a state may require a small qualified party to attract as much as 15 % of the primary voters to choose that party's primary ballot, if it wants to have nominees for the legislature on the November ballot.

State Officer Mark Kravis is leading the Reform Party of California in a voter registration drive to boost its membership numbers this election cycle as well, in order to qualify for ballot access in 2016.

The lone state in which he did not qualify was Louisiana, where he would have needed 1,000 signatures by September of voters who were not registered as members of the Democratic or Republican Parties.