Sentences with phrase «state election»

Bridgeport's wild mayoral campaign went into overdrive Tuesday with incumbent Democrat Bill Finch threatening to sue state election officials and unsuccessfully pleading with the Republican candidate to drop out of the race and let Finch run on the GOP line in November.

Terrence Murphy also introduces bill to increase jail time for those found guilty of breaking state election laws

The statewide nominations were the one exception due to the dictates of state election law.

State election law allows candidates for the primary election to begin circulation designating petitions June 5.

According to Bucci, the plan is for the Job Creation Party to meet Thursday, nominate Finch, and to submit his name as the party's candidate to state election officials Friday.

Mr. Feerick, who is dean of the Fordham Law School, also lobbied for an ethics law for local government officials primarily aimed at conflicts of interest in land development and governmental purchases and a separate state agency to enforce the disclosure provisions of state election law.

The campaign for Democrat Andrew Cuomo did not respond to multiple queries and the campaign for Republican Rob Astorino declined to comment on whether the state election system is fair.

The senatorial districts were redistributed twice (in 1965 and 1966), and the whole State Senate was renewed at the State election in Nov. 1965

Housekeeping accounts face no contribution limits but under state election law they are not to be used for the «express purpose of promoting the candidacy of specific candidates.»

«It's also the right thing for the state Democratic Party to fully cooperate with the state Election Enforcement Commission's investigation of Governor Malloy's and their purposeful, inappropriate and possibly illegal circumvention and outright disregard of state law during the 2014 gubernatorial campaign,» Rell said.

In an Oct. 8, 2014, confidential memo the campaign finance attorney for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio laid out his interpretation of what was allowed and not allowed under state election law as the mayor worked to swing the state Senate to Democratic control.

The State election was held from November 7 to 9, 1825.

Rolison was only one of a number of candidates tapped by Republicans Wednesday during a convention that was, for a time, closed to the public and press in move that Robert Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, said was violation of state election law.

That doesn't impress state election watchdogs, however, for two reasons.

Smith has a history of failing to follow state election law, as previously documented by Investigative Post.

And the New York State election law has another quirk: the lieutenant governor runs on a separate ballot from the governor.

State Election Law says all expenditures of more than $ 50 are to be itemized and identified on campaign financial disclosure forms filed online.

It's one example of how union dollars can enhance campaign accounts far beyond donation limits in New York, through what critics view as gaps in state election law.

State election law bars state contractors from contributing directly to the campaigns of statewide candidates, but the FEC isn't bound by state law.

Freeman said that under Section 1 - 10, Subdivision 28 of the state election law, the «meeting should have been open to the public.»

Tallmadge, a former Democrat, was now a member of the Conservative faction, and having endorsed the Whig ticket at the last State election, had considerable support but also met some rejection.

Edo State election was good, and I expect Ondo State election to be better.»

If so, that would be a violation of state election law, and a possible felony.

ALBANY — The five felony charges against former State Sen. George D. Maziarz should be dismissed because state election officials may not agree the Niagara County Republican broke any law, his lawyers said today in an Albany courtroom.

Jerry Goldfeder, one of the leading experts on New York election law, has this column in CityLand, advocating improvements in New York state election law.

In a case that could upend New York's political landscape, a state Supreme Court justice heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a lawsuit seeking to eliminate the so - called «LLC loophole» in state election law, which has given developers and other deep - pocketed donors the ability give essentially unlimited campaign donations to state politicians.

Kaminsky announced Monday he would back a pledge that vowed to back closing the loophole in state election law that allows limited liability companies to give unlimited donations as well as limit outside income for state lawmakers and curtail the use of discretionary spending in the budget.

Former Playboy Playmate Hope Smith donated $ 65,100 to Schneiderman's 2018 reelection campaign in January, the biggest individual donation the attorney general has received so far this year, according to state election records.

The Suffolk Democratic Committee returned a $ 100,000 NYSUT campaign contribution during the 2014 election because the union sought to steer the money to Democratic state Senate candidate Adrienne Esposito in possible violation of state election law.

In a case that could upend New York's political landscape, a state Supreme Court justice heard oral arguments in a lawsuit seeking to eliminate the so - called «LLC loophole» in state election law, which has given developers and other deep - pocketed donors the ability give essentially unlimited campaign donations to state politicians.

In a rebuke to President Donald Trump's administration, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday said the state won't comply with the federal review of state election systems when it comes to revealing New York's voter rolls.

An Albany State Supreme Court justice ruled that there will be no Independence Party primary for Rensselaer County executive as the state party failed to follow state election law and its own rules.

New York has amended state election law to prohibit candidates from serving as poll watchers in an election district where they appear on the ballot.

His candidacy has been married by his guilty plea to a misdemeanor violation of state election law for gathering phony petition signatures.

Under state election laws, Crist needed a campaign account in order to pay for a stage and other equipment at Monday's official campaign announcement.

A confidential memo the campaign finance attorney for de Blasio laid out his interpretation of what was allowed under state election law as the mayor worked to swing the state Senate to Democratic control.

In an open letter released on Tuesday, Gipson called for a special session to deal with ethics and campaign finance legislation, namely the closing of the loophole in state election that allows for unlimited donations to flow from a web of limited liability companies.

Information about filing requirements for local - level offices is not available in this article (contact state election agencies for information about local candidate filing processes).

If a district's state committee slots are vacant, its votes can not be cast, according to state election law.

The push began on Tuesday with an unveiling of eight bills designed to close the LLC loophole in state election, all impacting different houses, but all touching gubernatorial campaigns.

In October, Wilson filed a complaint with the state election commission alleging that family members and friends made large contributions to the Democratic state central committee, with the party then violating campaign finance regulations by shifting that funding back down to Kennedy's campaign.

The just concluded Anambra State election really was not an election as much as it was a referendum on Peter Obi.

According to recent filings with the State Election Enforcement Commission, independent spending this year has already reached $ 10.6 million — with two weeks still to go until the election.

Republicans mulled court action on the grounds that party lawyers were prevented from observing the counting of some absentee ballots, voting machines erroneously recorded votes from Lamb, and voters were confused by some information from the state election Web site.

DeFrancisco said last week that he fully understands state election law bars him from running for his Senate seat if he becomes the GOP nominee for governor.

Even after a federal judge ordered Mr. Cuomo to declare a special election for a vacant Staten Island Congressional seat, party leaders did not foresee that Mr. Cuomo would decide that the federal election and state election would be held on the same day, May 5.

State election records show the fund and Mastroianni had not previously donated to Cuomo's campaign.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate at the Kogi state election, late Abubakar Audu, who died on Sunday, will be buried in no distant time in his home town, Ogbonicha in Ofu local government area of the state.

The July 2014 memo, written by campaign lawyer Laurence Laufer, who was retained to represent some of the parties involved in the effort, detailed how the coordinated campaign would be structured and run, and how it intended to comply with existing state election law.

Representatives of the state election board pushed back against the questioning from members of the commission, repeatedly emphasizing a lack of resources and staff at the organization.