Sentences with phrase «same primary ballot»

Rivera was blunt: Castro could have the Assembly seat, but the chairman needed him as district leader, which was on the same primary ballot.

Under state law, all candidates, regardless of party, run on the same primary ballot.

In accordance with state law, all candidates in the special election, regardless of party, ran on the same primary ballot.

In California, all candidates run on the same primary ballot.

Under a blanket primary, all candidates, regardless of party affiliation, run on the same primary ballot.

Not exact matches

Unlike two his fellow same - sex marriage «yes» voters, who struggled — and in one case, failed — to keep the GOP ballot line on primary day, Sen. Mark Grisanti easily defeated his challenger, attorney Kevin Stocker, on Sept. 13 and retained Row B.

In more than a dozen states, House and Senate primary elections will happen on the same ballot with the presidential race — timing that could pose a challenge for incumbent candidates in intra-party battles.

McDonald, one of four GOP senators last year to approve same - sex marriage, is most likely at this point going to lose the Republican line to Saratoga County Clerk Kathy Marchione as the absentee ballot count in the primary race shows him falling irrevocably behind.

The mayor called on the state Legislature to pass broad voting and election reforms, including same - day voter registration, early voting, «no excuse» absentee voting, electronic poll books, consolidation of primary elections, reformatting ballots to make them more user - friendly, and pre-registration of 16 - and 17 - year - olds.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has indicated he'll call special elections for several vacant Assembly seats on April 19, the day of New York's presidential primary, and the assumption is he will put the Long Island Senate race on the ballot at the same time.

This opportunity to ballot primary will be held on the same day, Thursday, September 13.

Non-partisan too, the stranglehold of the 2 big parties is so much of our problem, they control ballot access and force us all to pay for their primaries and we get to choose between the candidates they choose for us (which are basically the same).

State law prohibits being on the same ballot twice but the state and federal primaries are held months apart.

Cuomo, however, is considering an endorsement of Sen. Mark Grisanti, a Republican who backed the same - sex marriage law in 2011, after he lost his primary two weeks ago, but retains the Independence Party ballot line.

The billboard popped up around the same time a judge's ruling dashed any hopes of Davis appearing on the primary ballot for Syracuse mayor.

Lazio reportedly raised around $ 2 million in the same period, while Paladino, who's petitioning to get on the primary ballot to challenge Lazio for the Republican nomination, raised $ 1.8 million — but all of it except for $ 100,000 was his own money.

State Senator Roy McDonald, a Republican who voted for New York's landmark same - sex marriage law last year, needs to make up 106 votes as the lawyers here shift through Saratoga County's share of roughly 1,000 absentee ballots that will determine whether he has survived a primary challenge from Kathy Marchione, the county's clerk.

Assuming Democrat Hayes Clement's whisker - thin six - vote primary victory over challenger Shayne Gallo — with perhaps a little more than a hundred absentee ballots to be counted — holds up, the finalists in November will be running on the same platform.

But if that same party wants to have a legislative candidate on the ballot in November, the number of voters within that legislative district to choose that party's primary ballot can be as high as 130 voters, i.e., over twenty times as high as the test for statewide candidates.

On October 4, a New York trial court in Westchester County ruled that an individual may circulate a petition for an independent candidate, even if that individual had signed another petition to place someone on a primary ballot for that same office.

A top - two primary is an all - parties primary in which only the top two finishers stay on the ballot for the general election, even if they are from the same party.

Feinstein still holds a wide leads in polls, however, and should benefit from California's so - called jungle primary system, which that places every candidate, regardless of party, on the same ballot.