Sentences with phrase «signature challenge»

This, after the candidates were booted off the ballot by the Manhattan Board of Elections due to what its officials deemed a valid signature challenge from Campusano and Clark's political opponents.

Arthur Greig, the election lawyer representing Clark and Campusano, told Gotham Gazette that it is highly unusual for a run - off - the - mill signature challenge to reach the state's highest court.

The size of the field may also make garnering enough signatures a challenge, and since the district's Democratic committees have pledged to remain neutral ahead of a possible primary, candidates don't have the extra firepower of institutional support.

The rule of thumb is gathering three times the threshold is preferable to give candidates a comfortable cushion to avoid getting tossed off the ballot due to signatures challenges.

August 4, 2011: Jack Wagner: Ideas to help the Green Party win June 28, 2011: In This Year's Tucson Mayor's Election, Green Party is the Only Party with a Choice on its Primary Ballot June 22, 2011: Republican drops out of Tucson mayoral race due to signature challenge, leaving only Democrat and two Greens

First, it is rare that a major party is pushed off the ballot due to signature challenges (meaning that he didn't collect enough valid signatures on his nominating petitions in order to meet the legal requirement).

The Republican candidate for mayor of Tucson, Arizona has dropped out of the race due to a signature challenge on his nominating petitions.

(It wasn't the first time a Colorado congressional candidate has won a signature challenge.)

«For the most part, most of them were not registered or enrolled voters,» Reich told the TimesLedger of the signatures they challenged.

One of the signature challenges of leadership in schools is trying to create that coherence especially in schools that have been around for a long time with a really strong tradition of what we might call radical teacher autonomy: letting every teacher go to their own classroom, go to their own space, and teach and improve however they want.

I think one of the signature challenges that people have integrating education technology, whether they're a classroom teacher or working at another level like an instructional technology person or a principle, is that there are so many considerations to deal with in using education technology that it's really easy to lose track of the most important things.

Mega Man 11 will be a great entry for both fans and newcomers to the series to dive into as it retains its signature challenge while offering a variety of difficulty options.

«Finally, a signature challenge where it's OK to burn the living hell out of something.»