Sentences with phrase «qualify by petition»

Incumbent Bob Cortes has become the first candidate to qualify by petition in his bid for a third term in House District 30.

Gulfport Democrat Jennifer Webb collected more than 1,157 signatures for inclusion on the 2018 ballot, making her first candidate in House District 69 to qualify by petition.

Maine has the nation's most burdensome procedure for a new party to qualify by petition (the requirement is 5 % of the last vote cast, and no one who is a registered member of a qualified party may sign).

Candidates must collect signatures from at least 1 percent of a districts voters to qualify by petition and avoid paying a fee.

The only other parties that have qualified by petition in Arkansas have been the Reform Party in 1996, and the Libertarian Party earlier this year.

As a back - up, Finch created the Job Creation Party and got it qualified by petition for the November election.

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To be a candidate, interested persons must file nominating petitions signed by 125 qualified voters who are residents of the Arlington Heights Park District.

Any resident who wants to be a candidate may pick up a nominating petition at the Park District office, 410 N. Arlington Heights Rd.. The resident must get the signatures of 382 qualified voters and return the petitions by Jan. 21.

«Our petition centres on the fact that as at the time the 2015 Senatorial election was conducted by INEC, Mr. Shehu Sani was not qualified to vie for the position given that he lied on oath to the commission about his academic qualification and falsified documents in bid to sustain the lies and false claims in the nomination form and affidavit he submitted to INEC,» the group noted.

After Spitzer appeared Monday afternoon at his petition drive with no staffers in tow — and few volunteers canvassing the area — questions remain about whether his hurried campaign will be able to collect the 3,750 signatures from registered Democrats required to qualify for the ballot by the midnight deadline this Thursday.

To qualify for the race, candidates had to pay a filing fee by April 12, 2018, or they must have submitted petition signatures by March 13, 2018.

«I'm happy we were able to qualify for the ballot by petition,» Brandes said Friday.

If a candidate qualifies by submitting an in - lieu - of - filing - fee petition, the signatures on that petition will be counted towards the requirement for the nomination paper.

Candidates may qualify to run for office either by paying a filing fee or by submitting a petition in lieu of the filing fee.

If a petition is circulated after redistricting and before the next gubernatorial election, the number of qualified electors in each district is equal to the total number of votes cast for governor statewide divided by the total number of districts.

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.

Peters announced near the end of April that she had gathered enough signatures to qualify for the ballot by petition.

An independent candidate seeking placement on the general election ballot must file an affidavit of identity (the same as that filed by party candidates) and a qualifying petition.

Cox needs at least 554 signatures of Conservative voters by July 22 to qualify - and double that to survive the likely petition challenge.

The declaration must be accompanied by either a filing fee or a nominating petition signed by a certain number of qualified voters.

No group has qualified to place a presidential candidate on the ballot by either type of petition, in over ten years.

Assuming Americans Elect qualifies in Georgia, it will be the first party to have obtained statewide party status in Georgia by petition Read more»

You can help our campaign by right now by printing and filling our our petition to qualify for House District 28.

This is the case filed by the Green Party and the Constitution Party, challenging the May petition deadline for newly - qualifying parties.

When a petition has been received by the Georgia Department of Education, it is first read and evaluated by qualified reviewers at the Department.

It could include # 2.5 billion for the pupil premium (Lib Dems), three million apprenticeships (Conservative), ensuring all teachers are qualified (Labour), bringing free schools and academies under local authority control (Green) or schools investigated by Ofsted on the presentation of a petition to the DfE signed by 25 per cent of parents or governors (UKIP)... or something entirely different.

Additional nominations for election to any of the offices or positions may be made from among the qualified members by written petition addressed to the Secretary and received at his regular address on or before August 10th, signed by 30 Regular Members, and accompanied by the written acceptance of such additional nominee signifying his willingness to serve if elected.

But if your mother didn't petition for your citizenship at that time, or if your mother wasn't a citizen when you were born due to foreign marriage or the citizenship having been stripped by the Nazis and thus couldn't have petitioned for your citizenship at the time, then you now qualify for naturalization under the process described in the second link, if you can demonstrate fluency in German and / or other connections to Germany.

Attorneys will be able to get up to six continuing legal education (CLE) credits per reporting period for doing qualified pro bono work, under a petition that was recently adopted by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, subject to minor language changes.»

Upon the filing of such a petition, the court may take or direct such action as it deems necessary to determine whether the attorney is incapacitated, including referral of the matter to the appropriate disciplinary board for hearing and recommendation by a hearing panel or the examination of the attorney by qualified medical experts.

- If an initiative petition, signed by the required number of qualified voters, has been filed as aforesaid, the secretary of the commonwealth shall, upon the assembling of the general court, transmit it to the clerk of the house of representatives, and the proposed measure shall then be deemed to be introduced and pending.

Following a 4 - day trial in October 2008, in which we and the father's lawyers succeeded in establishing that there is no rational basis for denying children the right to be adopted by qualified gay parents, or for denying gay men and lesbians the same rights as other citizens to be considered as adoptive parents, a Miami - Dade County judge declared the statute unconstitutional and granted the father's petition to adopt the children.

Once you qualify to file in your county by living there for 90 days, you can begin your divorce process by filing a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage with the clerk of court.

Special meetings of the National Association shall be called by the Board of Directors or by the President upon petition by at least twenty percent of its Member Boards or upon petition signed by the number of Member Boards who are qualified to vote individually representing at least twenty percent of the total REALTOR ® and REALTOR - ASSOCIATE ® Members.