Sentences with phrase «required signature petition»

Parents at 24th Street Elementary School, with the help of Los Angeles - based education reform group Parent Revolution, will deliver the required signature petition to L.A. Unified officials in downtown on Thursday morning to start the process of taking over the school, according to Parent Revolution officials.

Not exact matches

There are always tons of petitions looking to make weed legal, and they get over the threshold number of signatures required for a response (currently 100,000) from time to time.

Proponents of a measure that would require companies to disclose the data they collect from consumers have submitted signatures on petitions to qualify the initiative for the November ballot, paving the way for a heated battle over privacy.

The petition contained 350,000 signatures, and only 241,153 validated signatures are required to qualify for the November 2013 ballot.

The new law reduces the number of signatures required for a referendum to 7.5 percent of the registered voters from 15 percent and increases the number of days for a petition drive to 30 from 21.

Were the signatures to be dropped, Augustyn's petition would be 22 signatures shy of the required 125.

Dell Smitherman, a former Local 1199SEIU political director, filed petitions with 4,000 signatures — four times the number required to get on the ballot — to take on Sampson, who was indicted for allegedly stealing from housing escrow accounts and making false statements.

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.

The BrownMiller Group, of which Peter Brown is a founding partner, led the effort to collect more than 53,000 signatures on petitions to force a city referendum requiring a new investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Center.

Instead, he will seek to create a Libertarian line for the general election, which will require 1,349 petition signatures.

Independent candidates, who were required to obtain 1,500 signatures, had to submit their petitions this week.

The Board of Elections initially kicked Martinez off the ballot, and claimed he didn't have the required 500 valid signatures on his nominating petitions.

Raymond Blackwell and Alfonso Davis, both Democrats, were eliminated from the Democratic primary after failing to obtain the required number of signatures on their respective petitions.

Democrat - then - libertarian Chris Fowler twice failed to get the required number of petition signatures for the Democratic primary and then the Libertarian primary and was booted from the race.

Removing signatures from the petitions requires a consensus, she said, which means even if the two commissioners disagreed, the challenged signatures would have remained.

The last time a major intrusion into the last electoral cycle occurred, the petition period was shortened, and the number of required signatures reduced.

Carl Paladino says he is confident he will be on the GOP Primary ballot, after gathering roughly 28 thousand signatures for his petition, which is roughly 13k more than the required 15 thousand.

The petition to put a new party on the ballot only requires 1,000 signatures, for groups that only want to run a presidential nominee, but no nominees for other office.

With 151 union employees at the hotel, a decertification requires support from 30 percent of the business's employees — at least 46 signatures — to be considered legitimate, and NLRB spokesman Barney Horowitz confirmed Thursday the petition met that minimum, but wouldn't specify how many people actually signed.

Mr. Cohen, who has also run for town trustee in the past, sought but did not receive the party's endorsement, but forced a primary by filing a petition with well over the required number of signatures.

Malpass said she was surprised at the ease with which petition carriers were able to obtain well beyond the 1,300 signatures required to create the «Stop de Blasio» line in each of the Assembly districts, noting, «We'd go out on the street for signatures saying that we're creating a line to stop Bill de Blasio and lots of people would say, «I'm a lifelong Democrat but he's got to go.»

PA has long been home to some of the most unjust and frustrating ballot access requirements in the nation, requiring Greens and independent candidates to collect many thousands more petition signatures to run for office than their duopoly counterparts.

She says the 1,926 signatures fell short of the 2,000 required, thus invalidating the petition.

The two petitions combined, requiring a total of 9,027 signatures, still total fewer signatures than the statewide independent petition, which requires 18,053 valid signatures.

That being said, Rangel's campaign just filed 20,066 petition signatures with the Board of Elections, while the required minimum to get on the ballot is 1,250 signatures.

These are called opportunity to ballot petitions and are substantially the same as designating petitions (i.e., the petitions are held to the same signature and filing requirements, etc.), except that they do not require a candidate to be named.

Independent Democratic Conference Sen. Jeff Klein's campaign says he has filed nine times the number of required petition signatures with the state Board of Elections.

All petitions that pass 100,000 signatures are considered for a debate in the House of Commons and when MPs return from their summer break, the petitions committee will have a hard time refusing a debate on a petition that has double the required threshold.

Another candidate for the Buffalo School Board — Colleen E. Russell, an ally of Carl Paladino — was knocked off the May 3 ballot today when a judge ruled she had only 498 valid signatures on her petitions to run for the seat, two short of the 500 required.

Today marks the start of the six - week process of designating petitions, where candidates are typically joined by hordes of volunteers in collecting the required number of signatures to place themselves on the ballot for September's party primaries.

Prior to implementing the top - two system, the number of signatures required to waive that fee was 150, so most minor parties opted to file petitions.

The board formally accepted the recommendation of a bipartisan panel of hearing examiners, who ruled Tuesday that Perez Williams had exceeded the threshold of 1,250 signatures that are required on nominating petitions to qualify for the ballot.

For initiatives hoping to be granted ballot access, a minimum of 241,153 valid petition signatures are required to qualify an Initiative to the People for the 2012 statewide ballot.

The old law required 40,042 valid signatures by March of an election year, and the wording on the petition implied the signers are party members.

Lawmakers have already moved to shorten the time frame for gathering petitions, and have reduced the number of signatures required to qualify for the ballot.

The number of certified signatures required on the petitions is 3 % of the total vote cast for all candidates for governor (excluding blanks) at the immediately preceding state election.

The legislation would require a set number of voters to sign a petition to remove a seated elected official, with the petition signatures presented to the state Secretary of State.

Commissioners voted unanimously at a meeting to invalidate McMillan and his line, the Rent Is 2 Damn High Party, declaring the petitions submitted did not meet the required 15,000 - signature requirement.

The Paladino campaign has collected 28,000 signatures as part of its petition drive, nearly twice the 15,000 required to get on the ballot but perhaps not as much of a cushion as a candidate seeks.

A We The People petition demanding that Texas withdraw from the Union has reached the 25,000 signature threshold required to receive an answer from the White House Read More

As population has increased, roughly five times more petition signatures are required now to run for office than in 1943 when the ballot access laws were first implemented

But last week, he was informed that someone had challenged the validity of his petition signatures; a review put him below the required number of 75.

(Cuomo, who has a well - earned reputation as a backroom political bully, showed little compunction in trying to use those rules to knock Teachout off the ballot — despite her collecting 45,000 petitions, three times the number of signatures required to quality.)

The statewide petition requires 44,829 valid signatures.

Perez Williams turned in petitions with more than 3,200 signatures, exceeding the 1,250 required to gain a spot on the Democratic primary ballot against Dana Balter of Syracuse.

Kevin Roberts, currently serving as an Ulster County legislator from Plattekill, said Bell had only 275 valid signatures on a petition that required 1500.

Georgia requires a petition of 50,334 valid signatures and requires each sheet to be notarized.

In addition to securing the support of Delegates to the June 2nd Convention, in order to appear as Greens on the Georgia ballot, these partisan candidates are also required to file petitions with signatures representing 5 % of the number of voters who are registered and eligible to vote in November's General Election.

(Either would require the valid signatures of 15,000 registered voters from around the state, though a primary petition would require signatories to be enrolled Democrats.)

After the validity of Tirado's petition signatures were challenged, the city Board of Elections determined he was nearly 300 short of the 1,000 required, according to the Daily News» Bob Kappstatter, whose weekly column also includes a rundown of who will face primary opponents this September and who won't.