Sentences with phrase «signatures from voters»

The petition included signatures from voters in 48 counties.

State Senator Tom Libous» campaign submitted thousands of signatures from voters across the 52nd Senate District on three party lines to the New York State Board of Elections office in Albany this week.

The best option now for getting the Consensus proposal on a referendum may be to collect petition signatures from voters, Mahoney said.

Eillen Miller, a spokesman for the Amedore campaign, said Tkaczyk submitted «pages and pages» of signatures from voters in the Bronx and Brooklyn.

Mr. Spitzer, carrying a clipboard with a single petitioning sheet, was swarmed by dozens of cameras in front of the Union Square subway station and then trailed through the green market as he attempted to gather petition signatures from voters.

GOP Congressman Michael Grimm lost the Independence Party's ballot line when he did not turn in enough valid signatures from voters in the district, but he appealed the decision arguing that a systemic problem with the Board of Elections unfairly placed obstacles in his signature - gathering efforts.

«While the judge refused to consider a number of our objections on technical grounds, this much is certain: Fernando Cabrera's campaign repeatedly forged petition signatures from voters who testified that they had never signed; and callously signed under the names of deceased people,» said spokesman Karthik Ganapathy.

To qualify for party primaries, congressional candidates must submit 1,250 valid signatures from voters in their districts.

The legislator and Bronx Democratic Party chairman filed petitions that included multiple duplicate signatures, voters who did not live in his Assembly district and signatures from voters who said they never signed the sheets, according to the complaint filed in Bronx Supreme Court.

According to him, officials of the state government allegedly gathered the signatures from the voter register of INEC as there was no time signatures for his recall were publicly gathered in his senatorial district.

Not exact matches

Residents collected 1,142 signatures for a referendum to limit the board from spending more than 10 percent of its budget on capital improvements without voter approval.

The group, which boasts as many as 30 members, gathered 140 petition signatures from registered voters living on the east side of Lake in the Hills.

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.

Had the group failed to collect signatures from at least 15 percent of the electorate by the end of this week, the park board could have sold the bonds without voter approval.

Currently, citizens must collect written signatures from 1 % of the voting population (roughly 1.36 million voters) in order to force Congress to discuss a new law.

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.

The deadline for delivering at least 15,000 signatures from New York voters was August 19, and both efforts were successful.

The SAFE Act remains a signature legislative victory for Cuomo in his second term, but led to a fall in support from Republican voters who have typically opposed gun control legislation.

In Union Square, where he was slated to start collecting signatures, Spitzer talked with few voters, spending the majority of his hour - long appearance answering questions from a group of about 50 reporters.

Perez Williams said the DCCC supplied a small number of paid canvassers to help her gather signatures from Democratic voters in the 24th Congressional District that are required to make it onto the primary ballot.

In addition, Ms. Berney presented affidavits from voters confirming that their «signatures» on Milano's designating petitions were forgeries.

By comparison, two - term incumbent Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican from the North Country, boasted Monday that she had about 6,400 signatures from GOP voters on petitions her campaign filed with the state Board of Elections.

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

Until then, the DMV will print the electronically - captured voter registration applications with a digitized signature and mail them from their central Albany office to the county boards of elections.

Candidates for citywide offices like comptroller have to have 3,750 signatures from registered voters in their party by Thursday.

Nomination papers require a certain number of signatures from registered voters.

A candidate seeking the office of state assembly member must file signatures from 1,000 registered voters.

A candidate must receive signatures from 5 percent of a party's registered voters in order to run on that party's ticket.

Even if he does get the signatures, Spitzer would still need to go to the ballots and face voters who likely still remember the former «Sheriff of Wall Street's» fall from grace in 2008 after admitting that he paid a prostitute for sex.

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.

Also at noon, faith and labor leaders, voters, and community members «demand morality, fairness and honesty» from elected officials, deliver petition signatures to Cuomo calling for «real» ethics reform, outside the governor's NYC office, 633 Third Ave., Manhattan.

Valid signatures for this effort could have come from any registered voter, enrolled in a party or not, so any inability to qualify under these circumstances should send a message loud and clear that this candidacy has no grassroots support,» Latimer said.

The signature requirement for new political party formation petitions was reduced from 2 percent of the total number of voters who voted in the most recent gubernatorial election to 0.25 percent of that group.

Legislators and legislative hopefuls had the last five weeks to collect signatures — a daunting task, considering the signatures must be from voters registered with the candidate's respective party and who live in their district.

Walsh will still need to collect 1,349 petition signatures from city voters, only he will do it under the Upstate Jobs name instead of something he creates.

In order to qualify for public financing, candidates must collect signatures and $ 5 contributions from 1 percent of registered voters in the city.

To qualify for the ballot, they needed to collect 3,000 signatures from registered voters in the city, and those were due on April 28, 2017.

We need over a thousand petition signatures from registered voters in House District 15.

Backed by at least $ 500,000 from former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the political clout of ex-Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords, gun control advocates last week turned in what they contend are enough signatures to add a voter referendum on Washington state's proposed Extreme Risk Protection Order to the ballot this November.

Needing signatures from about 475 registered voters, the Democrats submitted over 600, said party chairman Art Tillman.

Walsh needed 1,349 signatures from registered city voters in order to qualify for his own ballot line.

Voters generally understand that vital services must be protected and delivered efficiently, but retirees in particular are wary of large - scale signature capital projects that have a propensity to run amuck from poor fiscal oversight.

(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.)

To get on the ballot, the former mayor would have to gather 79,939 valid voter signatures in Texas by May 9 from people who had not voted in either the March 1 Democratic or Republican primaries.

Signature requirement figures should be calculated using voter registration data from March 1 of the year of the election.

Elliot Quiñones [No Photo Available]-- The BOE commissioners ruled off the special election ballot for filing fewer than the required 450 valid signatures from registered voters in the 17th Council district.

Malpass said it may only take 3,700 signatures from registered voters to create a city - wide «Stop de Blasio» line in 2017.

Now that he has the signatures, his next step will be facing voters who likely still remember the former «Sheriff of Wall Street» fell from grace in 2008.

Monday, the campaign was notified that it had collected the required signatures from 3,321 voters in Senate District 22 to qualify for the ballot without having to pay a filing fee.

To appear on the June 24 primary ballot, candidates must secure 1,250 valid signatures from Republican voters in the 24th District.