Sentences with phrase «sign candidate petitions»

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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.

Staten Island resident Frank Morano, who is a long time supporter of Golisano, sent out a letter today urging people to go onto the Americans Elect website and sign the petition supporting the former candidate for NY Governor.

The petition must contain 100 signatures from each of the state's congressional districts; only voters belong to the same party as the candidate can sign the petition.

They may also only sign one petition for any candidate in a race — so if someone signed a petition for one of Spitzer's competitors during the weeks prior to his entry, its the earlier signature that counts.

Messer announced that his campaign had found the signature of a dead woman signed onto a Queens Democratic Party petition containing a slew of Democratic candidates, including Stavisky.

White says he encourages all voters to sign all candidates» petitions.

The Queens Democratic Party often puts their chosen candidates on the same petition sheet to cut down on the number of times residents must sign.

One challenge is to find Democrats who have not already signed petitions for Balter, making signatures for any other candidate invalid.

However, any registered voter may sign an independent candidate's petition.

If this bill is signed into law, the petition deadline for new parties, and for non-presidential independent candidates, will improve.

Ballot Access News erred when it reported that the new Florida ballot access law for minor party presidential candidates requires a petition signed by 4 % of the last presidential vote, unless the minor party is recognized by the Federal Election Commission.

A Republican candidate for Common Council gets knocked off the ballot in Kingston for failure to include the proper year on one of her nominating petitions, while a dead woman signs a nominating petition in Rochester.

He says he thought he was signing for just a single Libertarian candidate, and hadn't realized that he was signing a petition to put the party itself on the 2012 ballot.

Registered voters may sign both the in - lieu - of - filing - fee petition and the nomination paper, unless the candidate is using the signatures on the in - lieu - of - filing - fee petition to count toward the nomination paper requirement.

«This time people are signing my petitions like wildfire,» said the candidate, who added that he missed Friday's deadline for campaign finance filing.

The bill prohibited registered party members from signing the nominating petitions of independent candidates.

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.

Since one reason candidates ares often removed from the ballot is because a signer signs more than one petition is not applicable here because the Democratic and Republican candidates will not have to petition, I think getting 3,500 signatures or.8 percent of the registered voters shouldn't be hard if a candidate has any real supporters.

In the email, Teachout asked supporters to sign a petition — a classic list - building exercise for campaigns and advocacy groups — to push Obama in nominating a candidate for the court who overturn the ruling.

In regularly - scheduled elections, though, candidates who are not Republican or Democratic nominees need a petition signed by 5 % of the Read more»

The petition, which was signed by Dr. Umar Duhu, Mr. Usman Iya - Abbas and Umar Sanda - Sani, alleged among other things that the party's National Secretary, Mai Mala Buni, was complicit in an alleged attempt to impose a candidate on the zone.

With the initiative method, an amendment is proposed by a petition signed by voters equal in number to 8 % of the votes for all candidates for governor at the last gubernatorial election.

Or, in many states, they do not meet petition requirements in which a certain number of voters must sign a petition for a third party or independent candidate to gain ballot access.

Southold Town trustee candidate Abigail Field, left, of Cutchogue signs a petition to create the Women's Equality Party line.

«There are a lot of invalidated signatures on that petition and the vast majority of them were because Mr. Stocker went to the same people who had already endorsed a candidate and signed a petition for another candidate,» Republican elections commissioner Ralph Mohr said.

Signatures can be invalidated for a variety of reasons, including a voter signing a petition for another comptroller candidate, not being a registered Democrat, or even writing out their address incorrectly.

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.

The mayor needed 308 signatures of registered voters who hadn't signed another mayoral candidate's petition to form the party and get the line on the Nov. 3 ballot.

Tuesday, June 6 marks the first day for signing the designating petition to become a candidate.

Although attempts to knock people off the ballot are not unusual, this year's challenges have been particularly aggressive, with those opposing candidates aligned with the board's current majority showing up at homes and calling voters who signed petitions to verify their authenticity.

An independent candidate's nomination petition must be signed by registered voters eligible to vote for the office the candidate is seeking.

Though the number of signatures required to gain ballot access as an independent is related to the number of registered voters who are not affiliated with recognized political parties, the affiliation of those signing the petitions does not matter as long as they have not already signed a political party candidate's petition.

In a statement signed by its state Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, the party recalled that the struggle to retrieve the mandates of its candidates, including that of the governorship candidate, hijacked in the 2015 sham elections, led to various rulings by the election petition tribunals and Appeal Courts, which annulled and ordered for the rerun elections for 22 State Assembly positions out of 32, all 3 Senatorial seats and 12 out of 13 House of Representatives seats.

Download the candidate - specific petition below then ask your Democratic friends and neighbors to sign — only registered Democrats are allowed to sign.

He has since launched a reform petition drive that is similar to former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's NY Uprising PAC effort, although Koch has had better luck at getting candidates — including Cuomo himself — to sign on.

«Congressional petitions start on March 6th, and you can only sign for one candidate.

Green Party members have reported people who registered as Greens specifically to sign OTB petitions for Democratic and Republican candidates.

But if five percent or more of the party's members sign a petition, the party line will appear, allowing voters to write in the candidate of their choice.

An independent candidate for partisan office must be nominated by filing a signed petition.

More than 1300 Max Planck Ph.D. candidates signed the petition, which received continuous press coverage.

Examples of nonelectoral activities include signing a petition, writing a letter to a public official, attending a public meeting, wearing a campaign button, attending political meetings, working for a party or candidate, and contributing money to an individual candidate or a political party.

Holtz points out he is the only candidate in the race who did not sign the recall petition, supported Act 10 when it was proposed and calls himself a «kidservative.»

Holtz, a former teacher, principal and superintendent, touts himself as a more experienced educator and clear conservative candidate, in part because Humphries signed a petition to trigger a 2012 recall of Walker after the passage of Act 10, which curtailed collective bargaining and sparked massive protests — especially from public school teachers.

For the launch Wednesday, College Board representatives including college - aged students will circle the seats on the Mall, asking passersby to sign petitions urging the presidential candidates to say more about education reform.

Additional nominations of eligible members may be made by written petition addressed to the Interim Recording Secretary: Pattie Fischer, 3958 Happy Valley Road, Sequim, WA 98382 and postmarked on or before November 1st, signed by five (5) voting members in good standing and accompanied by the written acceptance of each such additional nominee signifying their willingness to be a candidate.

b. Additional nominations may be made by written petition addressed to the Board Secretary and received at his regular address postmarked on or before December 1st, signed by five members and accompanied by the written acceptance of each such additional nominee signifying his willingness to be a Except for the position of Delegate to the American Kennel Club no person shall be a candidate for more than one position, and the additional nominations which are provided for herein may be made only from among those members who have not accepted a nomination of the Nominating Committee.

(b) Additional nominations of eligible members may be made by written petition addressed to the Secretary and postmarked on or before September 15th, signed by five members and accompanied by the written acceptance of each additional nominee signifying his willingness to be a candidate.

Additional nominations of eligible members may be made by written petition addressed to the Recording Secretary and received at his address no later than six weeks before the Annual Meeting, signed by ten members and accompanied by the written acceptance of each such additional nominee signifying his willingness to be a candidate.

(b) Additional nominations of eligible members may be made by written petition addressed to the Recording Secretary and received at the Recording Secretary's regular address on or before July 15, signed by 25 members and accompanied by the written acceptance of each additional nominee signifying his willingness to be a candidate.

(b) Additional nominations of eligible Club members for positions on the Board of Directors may be made by written petition addressed to the Secretary and received on or before September 1, signed by 100 members or 10 % of the membership, whichever is greater and accompanied by the written acceptance of each such additional nominee signifying willingness to be a candidate.