Sentences with phrase «to get on the ballot»

Generally the party only gets on the ballot in states which permit two parties to jointly run the same nominee.

She announced that she has secured the required number of signatures to get on the ballot for the Democratic primary in the race.

And he points to the ease of getting signatures to get on the ballot as a sign that this year will work to his advantage.

Yeah, the rich and the poor alike can run for office, except that the poor can't get on the ballot!

«But the fact is, I did get on the ballot against significant odds and opposition within the party,» the comptroller concluded.

Spring and early summer is the time political candidates go door to door asking for help getting on the ballot.

Presidential campaigns help achieve ballot status necessary for state Green Parties, which helps local candidates get on the ballot.

Economic conflict of interest requirements before getting on the ballot, rather than after the election, and much stricter than anything we have now.

Some candidates have gotten on the ballot with barely more signatures than required, while others have been removed with more than 3 times.

It removes the drafting error in the law on how minor parties get on the ballot.

Initially, the task force decided to ask voters to fund a new regional facility, and the measure got on the ballot in 2011.

An independent gets on ballots in individual states by collecting signatures.

The question only gets on the ballot every 20 years and there hasn't been a constitutional convention in the state in half a century.

He just needs to get on that ballot first.

Even if the issue gets on the ballot, it must garner at least two - thirds of those voting to dissolve the district.

The betting is that the referendum gets on the ballot.

So before we can really talk about general election matching funds, we've got to get on the ballot everywhere first.

He has no endorsements and little money, but he feels he's collected enough petition signatures to at least get on the ballot, even if his signatures are challenged.

If the initiative gets on the ballot, we will find out a year from now.

Although he has not officially run for office, he attempted to get on the ballot for the 2005 Democratic primary but could not gather enough signatures.

When the presidential candidate who places third consistently can't get on the ballot, something is wrong.

He further indicated that based on the «good works» of the president, Nana Konadu's efforts at getting on the ballot paper in this year's elections and her rhetoric's about President Mahama's governance style would not impact the elections in any way.GhanaPoliticsOnline.Com

Justice Emilio Colaiacova rejected on Thursday a petition from town Democratic leaders who were trying to block Jaeger, a Conservative, from getting on the ballot as a Republican candidate.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox is so worried about party - flipping Suffolk County Steve Levy's chances of getting on the ballot at the party's upcoming convention that he has been actively recruiting a fourth gubernatorial candidate, multiple sources confirm.

Redlich says he's willing to spend $ 5,000 on the petition process in hopes of getting on the ballot for the mid-september primary.

The commissioners also act as administrative judges in dozens of challenges to candidates» petitions, determining who gets on the ballot in primary races after reviewing recommendations of the board's staff.

Valenti did not interview with the committee, but could still get on the ballot if he chooses to run in the next six weeks or so, Ment said.

Those not chosen by the borough's party organizations can still get on the ballot by filing new petitions within 12 days of Paterson's announcement, which gives them an Aug. 18 deadline.

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The group American's Elect is attempting to get on the ballot line for the presidential election, even though they don't have a candidate yet.

You can prove the system wrong by getting me on the ballot starting July 10th for signatures.

This whole Spitzermania thing might be short lived, since the former governor might not even get on the ballot.

In 1924, Robert La Follette did not even declare as an independent presidential candidate until July 4, 1924, and he still got on the ballot in 47 of the 48 states.

That support could enable her to block at least two of her four primary rivals from getting on the ballot when Democrats hold their convention in Rye on May 25 - 27.

Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) is meeting in central London to rule on whether Mr Corbyn should automatically get on the ballot paper as a sitting leader or whether he needs the nominations of 51 MPs and MEPs as his challenger Angela Eagle.

It is one of only four states in which Ralph Nader never got on the ballot, Read more»

(A congressional candidate seeking to also get on the ballot for a legislative election might need to start circulating petitions to get onto the September 11th state ballot while still campaigning for the June 27th congressional primary.)

If Spitzer successfully gets on the ballot, he will face Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer in the citywide Democratic primary for the comptroller seat in September.

«We want to get at least 50,000 votes to get a ballot line for the next election cycle, and that will enable our local candidates to more easily get on the ballot and run the next four years,» Hawkins said.

But if Bharara wants to run on the Democratic or another line, he should register for that party before petitioning for the opportunity to get on the ballot begins on June 5, Couser said.

The opportunity to ballot petition usually is a tactic to get on the ballot against the party's wishes, but Seeber said that was not the case, in this instance.

Cox, disappointed with the prospect of former Congressman Rick Lazio of Long Island as the challenger to Democrat Andrew Cuomo, recruited Levy to run - effectively staking his chairmanship on whether the Suffolk County Executive gets on the ballot.

«If Paladino gets on the ballot, which I believe he will, then Lazio will spend the next two months squandering what little money he has on a primary, with Cuomo just sitting back and enjoying the summer,» said one of the state's best - known Republican activists.

It's unclear if Samuels has sufficient support to even get on the ballot anyway.

I covered the convention in 2006 and there was a big fight over getting on the ballot (if I remember correctly, Andrew Cuomo even sent an aide to the airport to chase down the proxy of a departing delegate).

In other words, if Candidate X gets on the ballot, but gets sick or says I don't want this to happen, their committee will pick someone to replace Candidate X and they won't have to recollect the signatures.

The political machines of the 19th century are dead and buried, but the mechanisms by which people got on the ballot — cash and cachet — remain quite vibrant.

«[Paladino] didn't get on the ballot during the convention, but he went and clawed his way back on through the petitioning process,» Cox told NY1's Erin Billups.