Sentences with phrase «state ballot passed»

All three propositions on the New York state ballot passed Tuesday.

All three propositions on the New York State ballot passed on Tuesday.

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A comparable rush could shortly be under way in Maine, where the state is currently recounting votes after a recreational marijuana ballot measure narrowly passed.

What if Slavery was put on the Ballot for a Vote, state by state would it of passed???? You can vote on civil rights, and the Supreme Court will finally have to legalize it, just like they did when Blacks could not marry out of their race as recent as 1971 in some states.

If you live in a state that has a ballot initiative on Tuesday to label GMO products, please turn out to vote to have such measures passed.

Arizona, California and Florida have passed similar measures through ballot initiatives, and Maine, Colorado and Oregon have passed related laws in their state legislatures.

Not in California, at least judging from the battle waged over the internet to pass Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in that state: The ProtectMarriage.com coalition used the Web to fuel fundraising, volunteerism, and voter...

According to Barron, his supporters collected names in every one of the state's 29 congressional districts and passed the 100 - name limit in 23 of those (the requirement is at least 100 in 15 districts, so candidates can't just stand on a single busy street corner in NYC and get onto the ballot).

The first of two ways an amendment can be incorporated into the state constitution takes at least four years: two separately elected state legislatures must first vote to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot; then the majority of New Yorkers must vote on it and pass it by referendum.

The only time a statewide ballot proposition to limit gay marriage was defeated was in Arizona in 2006, although a narrower version of that initiative was passed by the state's voters in 2008.

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.

At a rally in New York City Thursday, Ms. Hochul, a former Democratic Congresswoman from Western New York, said she and the governor are forming the new ballot line to «mobilize women and supporters all across the state» following the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on contraceptives and the failure of the New York State Legislature to pass the Women's Equality Act, according to Capital New state» following the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on contraceptives and the failure of the New York State Legislature to pass the Women's Equality Act, according to Capital New State Legislature to pass the Women's Equality Act, according to Capital New York.

Term limits would have to pass through both houses in the state legislature in two successive legislative cycles, meaning it could be placed on an election year ballot as early as 2019.

On September 7, U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marbley issued a preliminary injunction, ordering the state not to enforce the ballot access law passed earlier this year by the legislature.

On April 3, the Montana Senate State Administration Committee passed HB 120, which makes two ballot access improvements.

Should the measure pass in the Maryland state legislature, it would still require voter approval in the form of a statewide ballot measure.

If the measure passes, Connecticut would join fellow New England states Massachusetts and Maine, where ballot initiatives passed in November.

Mainers United for Marriage, the gorup working to pass a ballot measure legalizing same - sex marriage in the state, hit their target in a $ 100,000 matching donation challenge offered by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes (pictured) and his partner Sean... Read

Mainers United for Marriage, the gorup working to pass a ballot measure legalizing same - sex marriage in the state, hit their target in a $ 100,000 matching donation challenge offered by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes (pictured) and his partner Sean Eldridge, the Bangor Daily News reports:

In Alabama, one of the few states where the filing deadline has passed, neither Jim Gilmore nor George Pataki, two longshot former governors running bare bones 2016 campaigns, paid the $ 10,000 fee to appear on the March 1 ballot.

The Daily Reflector, daily newspaper in Greenville, North Carolina, has this editorial, asking the legislature to pass HB 32, the ballot access reform bill that has already passed the House and which is pending in the State Senate.

The ballots — which represent a second attempt to try to pass a labor contract with the state — are due at the New York City offices of the American Arbitration Association by 9 a.m. Thursday.

A group of state senators went on a fact - finding trip to Colorado and consulted with 75 experts to come up with a number of recommendations on how the state legislature should respond if the legalization ballot initiative passes in November.

The case, Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, centered around a 2000 ballot initiative passed in Arizona that removed the power of redistricting from the state Legislature and placed that role in the hands of an independent commisState Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, centered around a 2000 ballot initiative passed in Arizona that removed the power of redistricting from the state Legislature and placed that role in the hands of an independent commisstate Legislature and placed that role in the hands of an independent commission.

Three years after California voters passed a ballot measure to raise taxes on corporations and generate clean - energy jobs by funding energy - efficiency projects in schools, barely one - tenth of the promised jobs have been created, and the state has no...

This whole medicinal pot issue is a little thorny, since marijuana is illegal under federal law — period, end of story, even in states that have passed legislation or ballot initiatives making the drug legal for use by people who are sick, those individuals are still subject to arrest by federal officials for possession or cultivation.

According to an order for declaratory judgment which was sent by Rosenblum to a New York state Supreme Court judge on Oct. 17, the mayor will seek to nullify a decision by the Democratic majority of Leon Potok, David Finch and Ilissa Miller on the village board to authorize a ballot referendum that — if passed by public vote on Election Day — would restrict Rosenblum's ability to appoint a village attorney as well as certain land use board members.

Nixon said she'd received a mailer from the Women's Equality Party that didn't actually feature any women on it, and she said the lack of State Senate candidates running on the ballot line would hurt the chances for passing legislation to help women.

On July 4, the Ohio Green Party put out a press release, blasting the legislature for passing HB 194, the omnibus election law bill that the state claims cures the constitutional defect in the old ballot access law that was struck down in 2006.

But the state also passed a ballot measure that would hand over the redistricting process to a nonpartisan commission.

Lib Dem rules state that motions passed by the annual conference automatically become party policy, but Mr Clegg's chief of staff, Norman Lamb, said earlier this week that its ministers would ignore any ballot that clashed with the coalition deal.

The first is that Cuomo has made himself the first major elected New York state official to advocate the $ 15 minimum wage and the plan he supports is comparable to those passed into law in Seattle and Los Angeles and proposed in ballot initiatives in Washington, D.C. and California.

David Denenberg will remain on the State Senate ballot in November, as county Democrats said they would allow a deadline to switch him to a judicial race to pass.

To date, 22 companies have applied to open four casinos in New York State after voters passed the ballot proposal last November.

On April 8, the Montana Senate passed HB 120, the Secretary of State's omnibus election law bill which contains two ballot access improvements.

This appears to mean that HB 32, the ballot access bill that passed the House last year, won't get a vote in the State Senate until May at the earliest.

«What we're asking for is for our state legislative leaders, our county legislative leaders, our city legislative leaders to allow for a mechanism for citizens... to pass petitions to put something on the ballot.»

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«If the ballot initiative passes, it would mark a turning point for public activism in the United States,» says Charles Benbrook, chief science consultant at the Organic Center, an organic farming advocacy group in Troy, Oregon.

After two states have passed GE labeling bills and more than 30 are poised to consider similar labeling bills and ballot initiatives, the food and...

After two states have passed GE labeling bills and more than 30 are poised to consider similar labeling bills and ballot initiatives, the food and biotech industry have goat - roped some members of Congress into introducing legislation to block state GE labeling laws.

That state ballot measure was passed by California voters in 2000 and, in...

An especially intense spotlight had been trained on the scores of students whose native language is not English — largely because of Proposition 227, the ballot initiative passed last year that curtailed bilingual education in the state's classrooms.

In their lawsuits, filed last May, the groups argued that Proposition 39, a state ballot measure passed by voters in 2000, grants charters» access to facilities in...

Washington Policy Center, the state's premier public policy research and education organization, has completed non-partisan, objective analysis of all statewide propositions appearing on this year's ballot, including Referendum 55, which asks voters to decide if a limited experimental charter school law, which the Legislature passed earlier this year, should be passed...

Massachusetts may have voted down Ballot Question 2, which, had it passed, would have raised the cap on the number of charter schools permitted in the state, but all is not lost.

Voter support for Proposition 2, a new version of a state budget rainy day fund, is increasing but is still shy of the majority backing that Gov. Jerry Brown will need to pass his signature ballot measure, according to a new poll.

Moreover, public school advocates know that while ALEC legislators have been successful in getting limited school voucher schemes passed in state houses across the nation, these measures never succeed when they are put to the ballot.

In Idaho, they fought to get on the November ballot three referenda that, if passed, will annihilate Superintendent Tom Luna's sweeping reform efforts that could bring about a quality education for all students in the state.

Last week former state Rep. Marty Walz, who campaigned for Great Schools Massachusetts, suggested that if the ballot question failed, the group would push in the Legislature to lift the cap on charter schools in districts where the measure passed.