Sentences with phrase «statewide ballot status»
Jay Jacobs, chairman of the Nassau Democratic Party and a former state Democratic chairman, led a charge in 2014 for Gov. Andrew Cuomo not to take the Independence ballot line, which likely would have doomed the party because it would have led to it not getting the 50,000 votes needed to give it its statewide ballot status.
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«By any reasonable criteria — support demonstrated by poll numbers, a ballot status party with its own candidate, a serious statewide campaign, the only progressive option on the ballot — I should be included in debates,» Hawkins added.