Sentences with phrase «third ballot vote»

Both Mr. Horne and Mr. Liepert were strong supporters of Mr. Mar in the leadership contest and would have likely ended up in similar positions had he not been defeated on the third ballot vote on October 1.

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With the entire House on next year's ballot — and about one - third of the U.S. Senate up for a vote, too — the stakes are high for those in the Bay Area who seek to erode the GOP's control of Congress and erect a new bulwark against Trump's agenda in areas like immigration and climate change.

In a secret ballot on 23 June 2015, Yindjibarndi people throughout the State voted by an overwhelming two - thirds majority for change in the management and leadership of Yindjibarndi Native Title business.

Ms. Redford defeated Mr. Mar in a third - ballot vote 37,104 to 35,491.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

Even if the issue had made it to the ballot, it would have needed support from at least two - thirds of those voting to dissolve the district.

Barron, who hopes to receive at least 50,000 votes on the Freedom Party line, establishing a new third party that will have automatic ballot status in the 2014 elections, told me the vast number of signatures he has amassed should serve as the equivilent of a political «no trespassing» sign to any of his detractors.

Party leaders even debated holding the vote to decide on their standard bearer on the very first day they gather at the Sheraton in Manhattan — June 1 — with down - ballot races like AG and state comptroller bumped to the second or even third day.

Remember: Third parties need to get at least 50,000 votes for their gubernatorial candidates in order to maintain ballot status.

Similarly in Florida, absentee balloting began only Tuesday, but already more than 2.5 million people — nearly one - third of the total number of votes cast in 2012 — have requested ballots.

Hawkins said that candidates for public office in New York should run on only one line, rather than cluttering up the ballot with fake third parties and independent lines whose main function is patronage and vote - buying.

In 2014, Cuomo created a new third party, the Women's Equality Party, which appeared on the state ballot, and which political observers saw as an effort to siphon votes from the WFP.

Voters will get a third chance to make their feelings known on term limits after the City Charter Revision Commission voted this month to put the contentious issue back on the ballot in November.

In the union section of the electoral college, representing a third of the college, union political levy payers vote individually, on ballots requiring them to tick a box saying they support Labour.

The last ballot measure that really got voters going was New York City's term limits referendum in 1993 — famously superseded by the 2008 City Council vote allowing Mayor Bloomberg's third term.

Cuomo also created a third - party ballot line, the Women's Equality Party — one letter different from the WFP — which ended up siphoning enough votes from the WFP to push the party down below the Green Party to Row E on the ballot line.

CHEYENNE — A new third - party political group's future is in doubt after it failed to gain enough votes this past election to retain its ballot status.

Insiders say the Conservatives fear the new name could jeopardize their status as the third line on the ballot by stealing votes away.

Under the old system, in place at the time of Ed Miliband's election in 2010, trade union members and members of other affiliated societies had a third of the votes in the electoral college system, and would send out ballot papers to their members.

Howie Hawkins is again running for governor — for the third time — and the party needs at least 50,000 votes to maintain ballot access under New York state law.

Mr Hughes, MP for North Southwark and Bermondsey, was knocked out in the first round in the ballot among the party membership, after coming third with 12,081 votes.

Liz Benjamin wrote: «Remember: Third parties need to get at least 50,000 votes for their gubernatorial candidates in order to maintain ballot status.»

John Perry, his town's former assessor and a longtime fixture for his coaching of local kids» sports teams, will be the new town supervisor in Hurley after the counting of absentee ballots on Monday, November 20 gave him 13 more votes than former Woodstock supervisor and now West Hurley resident Tracy Kellogg, who was making her third run for the position on Democratic, Green and Working Family party lines.

The burgeoning third party gained ballot access in Wyoming for the first time in 2012, and its U.S. House candidate, Daniel Clyde Cummings, earned enough votes in November's general election for the group to remain a registered third party in the state through 2014.

While there's no way to prove with certainty that an independent WFP candidate would have crossed the 50,000 - vote threshold, Frase notes that the Green Party got 59,906 votes for its independent candidate, Howie Hawkins — suggesting that it was possible for a third party to hold a ballot line with a Left challenge to Cuomo.

Hawkins easily helped the third party achieve ballot access for this coming election by surpassing the 50,000 - vote threshold....

Unofficial returns (not including absentee ballots) indicated that Rosario won with 324 votes, with Attorney Dennis Bradley coming in second with 176, Ayala third with 94 votes, and Teresa Davidson, a retired corrections officer, coming in last with 92 votes..

Today, some states require huge numbers of signatures and / or votes for third parties to gain ballot access, while other states are much more reasonable.

But Astorino doesn't support holding forums that include third party candidates who make the ballot, including Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, who received more than 50,000 votes in 2010.

If 50,000 New Yorkers vote for Cuomo and Hochul this year on the Women's Equality Party ballot line, it will become an official third party.

Former White House aide Clyde Williams, another black candidate based in Harlem, placed third with more than 4,600 ballots and 11 percent of the overall vote.

There's also the possibility, he noted, that Cuomo will lose votes in the general to third party candidates — Nixon won the endorsement of the Working Families Party, which would allow her to be on the general election ballot even if she loses the Democratic primary; and Howie Hawkins is running for governor for a third time on the Green Party line, on which he came in third with more than 180,000 votes in 2014.

LENOIR, (Dec. 26)-- Two of the major Republican presidential hopefuls are learning what third party and independent candidates have known for years, that ballot access laws in most states are rigged against offering voters any real choices in primaries and on election day, said Jordon Greene, president of Free the Vote North Carolina in a statement issued today.

A third of voters in 40 marginal seats would consider voting for Ukip at the next general election but over half said they would next cast their ballot for the eurosceptic party, a new ComRes poll for ITV News suggests.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — U.S. Rep. John Katko says he doesn't know how he would vote if the presidential election was today, but he would not rule out a third - party candidate or leaving the ballot line blank.

ALBANY — Some Republican votes in Columbia County will have to be counted by hand because the name of a third candidate — Bob Bishop — incorrectly appeared on the congressional primary ballot, officials told POLITICO New York.

There was a minor voting snafu in Columbia County, where several hundred ballots mistakenly carried the name of a third candidate: Bob Bishop withdrew from the race in early May and threw his support behind Faso.

«We want to make sure we identify delegates who will vote for Gov. Kasich in a second or third ballot at the convention,» said Emmalee Kalmbach, a Kasich campaign spokeswoman.

Political third parties in New York are required to get 50,000 votes in a gubernatorial election every four years to maintain a ballot line.

He is founder and president of Free the Vote North Carolina, which is supporting a bill now before the legislature to dramatically lower the ballot access barriers for third parties and independent candidates..

Five other candidates were on the mayoral ballot, with Reform Party candidate Sal Albanese coming in third with 2 percent (22,891 votes).

By ruling of the presiding officer, or on motion of any Council member supported by at least one - third of the Council members present and voting, any matter on the agenda that has not yet come to vote, with the exceptions of a proposed amendment to the Constitution or a motion to recall an elective member of the Board, may be submitted to the entire Council membership for a mail ballot, or by electronic means, and shall require for its approval a favorable vote of a majority of the Council members, except that a resolution shall require for its adoption a favorable vote of two - thirds of those members.

A proposal to recall shall require for its adoption an affirmative vote of a majority of all Members or, failing that, of two - thirds of the Members who return ballots, provided that the number of affirmative votes cast is no less than two - thirds of the number of ballots cast in the election at which the Board member was elected.

A proposed amendment shall require for its adoption a favorable vote of a majority of all Members or, failing that, of two - thirds of the Members who return ballots.

Environmentalists are also starting to focus on Proposition 26, a little - noticed California ballot measure that would reclassify environmental impact fees as taxes and require a two - thirds vote of the state legislature to impose them rather than a simple majority.

The Best Picture winner is determined by a preferential ballot, which means sometimes a film with a sizable amount of second and third - place votes ends up the victor.

The counting of absentee ballots left the Fresno Unified School District's bond referendum with 63.8 percent of the vote, shy of the two - thirds majority required.

(Calif.) With a key committee vote set for today on legislation that would place a $ 9 billion, statewide school facilities bond on the November ballot, one group backing the proposal is already nearly a third of the way toward reaching its campaign finance goal of $ 1.6 million.

If a measure to increase local parcel taxes for public schools were on the ballot, about half of likely voters (48 %) would vote yes — a level of support far short of the two - thirds majority needed to pass a local parcel tax.

The ballot was conducted via a remote material vote requiring a super-majority (or two - thirds) of the number of votes cast to approve the Proposed Document.