Sentences with phrase «signatures of registered voters»

Then, the Stop Puppy Mills Ohio coalition will launch the main petition drive — seeking 400,000 signatures of registered voters required for qualification for the November 2018 ballot.
That means supporters of the proposal now can begin the task of gathering 305,591 valid signatures of registered voters from 44 of 88 Ohio counties.
Signatures of registered voters equaling 10 percent of votes cast in last gubernatorial election
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.
Now Babinec will have to gather 3,500 signatures of registered voters to make it onto the ballot on the new party line.
Malloy is seeking reelection in a three - way race against Republican Tom Foley and petitioning candidate Joseph Visconti of West Hartford, who collected the necessary 7,500 signatures of registered voters to gain a spot on the November ballot.

Not exact matches

Under village law, 300 signatures, or 5 percent of the registered voters, are needed to get a referendum question on the ballot.
Needing 2,353 signatures - 10 percent of the park district «s registered voters - citizens submitted petitions with 2,920 names to the park district on Aug. 20.
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.
Signature requirement is number equal to 15 % of registered voters in the municipality, based on the total number of registered voters at the time of the last general election
To qualify for placement on the general election ballot, an independent presidential candidate must submit a petition containing the signatures of at least 3,000 registered voters and pay a $ 250 filing fee.
Belanger said some of the signatures should clearly be thrown out because they were signed by unregistered voters, or those registered to other parties.
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.
The petition had to be signed by only 5 percent of the party's registered members, which amounts to about 10 signatures in the case of the Reform Party which has a total of 187 registered voters.
New York allows voters to register through Department of Motor Vehicles websites, using digital signatures on driver's licenses and ID cards that are on file.
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.
MOPA AMURO TOTAL NUMBERS OF REGISTERED VOTERS — 18, 350 TOTAL NUMBERS OF SIGNATURES ON THE PETITION — 9,173.
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.
If the number of registered voters in the district in which the candidate seeks nomination is less than 2,000, a candidate may submit a petition containing four signatures for each dollar of the filing fee, or 20 percent of the total number of registered voters in the district in which he or she seeks nomination, whichever is less.
A candidate must receive signatures from 5 percent of a party's registered voters in order to run on that party's ticket.
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.
On claims by Melaye that some of the signatures submitted to INEC were forged and that names of dead registered voters were also included, Oyekanmi said that the process of verification would clear all that.
The applicants, who frowned at the 188,000 signatures which were submitted to INEC, noted that while 111,534 voted in the general election in Kogi West, the total number of registered voters in Kogi West was 360,098.
One - fourth of 1 % of the number of registered voters currently is 15,327 valid signatures.
Because of the truncated election calendar, the minimum threshold is 938 signatures of registered Democratic voters residing in the congressional district.
After that, if the candidates» petition signatures hold up — they need the signatures of at least 1,000 unique registered Democratic voters — then their names will be on the ballot.
Counties used this time to count any absentee ballots or provisional ballots not yet counted, to reconcile the number of signatures on the roster of registered voters with the number of ballots recorded on the ballot statement, to count any valid write - in votes, to reproduce any damaged ballots, if necessary, and to conduct a hand count of the ballots cast in 1 % of the precincts, chosen at random by the elections official.
In order to qualify for public financing, candidates must collect signatures and $ 5 contributions from 1 percent of registered voters in the city.
The bill lowers the number of signatures a new party must obtain to 0.25 percent of registered voters.
«I, Professor Ukertor Gabriel Moti hereby affirm that the verification of signatures to the petition for the recall of Senator Dino David Melaye of Kogi West Senatorial District has taken place on this day, 28th April, 2018 and that the verified signatures is 5.34 percent of the total number of registered voters in the Constituency and has therefore not satisfied the requirements of the law for referendum.»
A new party is created for statewide office if its organizers submit the valid signatures of 15,000 registered voters, and it automatically stays on printed ballots if its gubernatorial candidate logs 50,000 votes on its line during the election.
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.
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.)
Where Labour is in third place or below, and perhaps also where it is in a sufficiently distant second place, then it should dispense with any requirement that its prospective nominees be party members (although they would of course have to join if they were selected), provided that they had been registered voters within the constituency's then boundaries for at least 15 years, and provided that they were recommended to the Constituency Labour Party by the public signatures of at least five per cent of the voters.
The party petition needs signatures equal to 1 % of the number of registered voters in October 2010.
He needed the signatures of 5 % of the registered voters.
Existing law says statewide petitions need signatures of 1 % of the number of registered voters, and district and county petitions need 5 % of the number of registered voters.
Signers must be registered voters of the county specified on the signature page.
The number of signatures required on the petition is equal to at least 3 percent of all registered voters who are not affiliated with a recognized political party in the district the candidate seeks to represent.
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.
State election officials had said the Democratic lawmaker had fallen short of requirements to make the ballot because two people collecting signatures for him were not registered voters, as required by state law.
The board ruled Perez Williams had submitted petitions with at least 1,250 valid signatures of registered Democratic voters, the minimum required to gain a spot on the ballot.
They are very stringent, and require signatures equal to 5 % of the number of registered voters (the law is much easier for statewide independents, and somewhat easier for independent candidates for U.S. House).
The lone state in which he did not qualify was Louisiana, where he would have needed 1,000 signatures by September of voters who were not registered as members of the Democratic or Republican Parties.
The law requires signatures equal to 4 % of the number of registered voters, or approximately 20,000 valid signatures in the typical district.
«For the most part, most of them were not registered or enrolled voters,» Reich told the TimesLedger of the signatures they challenged.
Asked by Capital why the signatures were invalidated Conklin said, «The two main reasons were that either the voters weren't registered or were registered outside of the district.»
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