Sentences with phrase «to get onto the ballot»

Also worth noting: Anyone who gets onto the ballot at the convention has seven days to accept their ballot line.

Her exit allowed her supporters to transfer their backing to other candidates to enable them to get onto the ballot paper.

Recall that former Gov. Eliot Spitzer didn't endorse Cuomo until after he won in September, even though he successfully blocked all his opponents from getting onto the ballot at the party's convention in Buffalo.

He could try to petition his way onto the ballot — that worked for former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, who didn't get onto the ballot at the convention and then managed to win a there - way GOP primary.

Everyone on that list is also a registered Republican, which means they would have an easier time of getting onto the ballot than Levy himself, since they won't need Wilson Pakulas.

(The rumor was being pushed by the Turner camp, and would be very helpful to the congressman's quest to get 25 percent of the weighted convention vote to get onto the ballot as it would free up two vote - heavy counties now backing Maragos: Nassau and Suffolk).

(The Q poll didn't ask about former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, who petitioned his way onto the ballot, nor did it ask about Gail Goode, Gillibrand's primary opponent who also got onto the ballot througha petition drive).

In the name of boosting academic performance and giving struggling kids a better shot at succeeding in first grade, California appears to be headed down the slippery slope to universal preschool, never mind that state voters rejected such a plan when Rob Reiner got it onto the ballot in 2006.

During the upheaval of the 2010 GOP gubernatorial primary, in which Cox unsuccessfully pushed for DEmocrat - turned - Republican Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy to get the nod (he was blocked from getting onto the ballot by former Rep. Rick Lazio, who lost in the primary to Carl Paladino), some called for Basile to be fired.

Steele pointedly didn't single out the state's GOP chairman, Ed Cox, for any praise — perhaps because none of the candidates who won got onto the ballot with his assistance.

So Jeremy Corbyn, who only got onto the ballot by Labour MPs «lending» him votes to broaden the debate, looks like he has serious chance of winning.

If DioGuardi is successful in petitioning his way onto the GOP ballot (and he can't be stopped from doing so, since he's an enrolled party member), he'll set up a three - way primary between the two candidates who got onto the ballot at the convention: Designee Bruce Blakeman and David Malpass.

The unlikelihood of Smith winning a Republican primary, let alone a general election, didn't deter him, Halloran or two other Republicans, the Bronx County Republican chairman Jay Savino and Queens County Republican operative Vince Tabone, from seeking money in order to help Smith get onto the ballot without changing his party registration by acquiring what's known as a «Wilson Pakula» from at least three of the five Republican county committees in New York City.

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who has been running for about a year now and has sufficient county support to get onto the ballot on Friday (assuming all the committee pledges he has received hold), did not attend, either.

It appears she has calculated that was an impossibility, although it's also unclear whether she would have managed to get onto the ballot here at the convention this late in the game — even with state Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs» change of heart about the ballot.

Maragos said the previous focus of his statewide trips had been wooing the GOP rank - and - file to get onto the ballot because without passing that milestone, «it's all academic.»

Recall that Lazio and Edwards got onto the ballot at the Conservative convention back in May, thanks in no small part to the state party chairman, Mike Long, who went all out to help the former Long Island congressman and helped force the GOP's hand by holding his nominating get - together before the Republicans held theirs.

In 2005, when Freddy Ferrer mounted a long - shot challenge against billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the WFP dithered so long on whether to support Ferrer that when it finally did, it was too late to actually get him onto the ballot.

Erie County Conservative Chairman Ralph Lorigo (pictured) also got onto the ballot after receiving about 36 percent of the vote.

The poll did not ask about Teachout, who has not yet gotten onto the ballot and must circulate petitions, collecting at least 15,000 valid signatures from enrolled Democrats across the state, to do so.

Spitzer declined, even after Cuomo successfully blocked all his primary opponents form getting onto the ballot at the convention (recall that this year, all five AG candidates were allowed on the ballot after much mathematical manipulation of the weighted vote).

At the state convention in 1994, Murray was on the stage, helping the Pataki forces shut down any would - be challengers from attain the 25 percent of delegate votes needed to get onto the ballot automatically.

Cox initiallly seemed to like Erie County Executive Chris Collins for governor (now a Paladino supporter), and then backed Democrat - turned - Republican Steve Levy against Lazio (which didn't sit well with Steele) and only backed Lazio after he blocked Levy from getting onto the ballot at the convention.

It's looking increasingly likely that at least two of the three would - be Gillibrand challengers will get onto the ballot as 2012 shapes quickly up into a re-do of 2010 when the GOP finally settled on former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, who lost big in the general election.

Time is running out for John and Diane, at least one of whom can not get onto the ballot paper, to decide who should withdraw.

Tonight is the deadline for Eliot Spitzer to submit 3,750 valid petition signatures in order to get onto the ballot in the NYC comptroller's race.

All six declared candidates secured more than the 45 nominations from MPs that was the minimum requirement for them to get onto the ballot paper by close of nominations at 12:30 UTC +1 on 17 May 2007.

At that convention, only Cuomo got sufficient support to get onto the ballot with 67 percent of the weighted vote.

I've heard anecdotal reports that Chris Cox is having trouble collecting enough signatures to ensure he'll not only get onto the ballot but also be able to withstand any challenges to his petitions.

Berntsen rode a tide of Tea Party support at the GOP convention to become the party's designee against Schumer, but Townsend, who is backed by the Conservative Party, also got onto the ballot.

Expectation is that at least two — and maybe three — candidates get onto the ballot this afternoon.

The fact that Cuomo has decided to sit this one out — which, by the way, is exactly what then - gubernatorial frontrunner / AG Eliot Spitzer did in 2006, even after Cuomo blocked all his opponents from getting onto the ballot at the convention — is a loss for Rice.

It would give Levy a modicum of bragging rights if he could one - up Lazio by getting an upstater who is also a woman to be his No. 2 — assuming both of them get onto the ballot.

Paladino also did not receive sufficient support at the convention to get onto the ballot, but petitioned his way on instead.

The truncated political calendar necessary as a result of the court's decision to move up the federal primaries has reduced the number of signatures necessary to get onto the ballot, but also shortened the amount of time in which candidates have to circulate petitions.

Lazio got the Republican nod at the convention, where Democrat - turned - Republican Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, who was backed by state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, failed to get onto the ballot.

Teachout, as you'll recall, failed to receive sufficient support at the WFP's May 31 convention to get onto the ballot, but she did get 41.3 percent of the weighted convention vote to Cuomo's 58.7 percent.

If Spitzer fails to get onto the ballot, then this whole question is moot — unless he opts for an independent, or opportunity to ballot, candidacy, for which the petition deadline is just a little bit later.

The comptroller was the first candidate to hit the 25 percent mark to get onto the ballot, but that requires his home county of Nassau and neighboring Suffolk to remain firmly in his camp.

That's far behind Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who added the Albany County GOP chairman to his tally today, bringing the total to 22.847 — just shy of the 25 percent necessary to get onto the ballot.

So far, Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos is the only would - be Gillibrand challenger who has passed the 25 percent threshold to get onto the ballot.

He's also hearing a lot of talk about «amendments and motions» to assist Levy to get onto the ballot — a charge Cox and his backers insist isn't the case, but Long said: «I'm not getting those stories out of the sky.»

Antonacci said he won't primary Wilson if the Westchester County Republican manages to get sufficient support to get onto the ballot, but he also expressed some doubt that might actually occur.

They need just 25 percent of the weighted vote to get onto the ballot.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy has hired yet another veteran of John Faso's 2006 campaign as he continues his uphill battle to land sufficient support to get onto the ballot at the GOP state convention.

If Levy fails to get onto the ballot, state GOP Chairman Ed Cox's hold on his leadership post will likely be further imperiled.

Krogh was credited for whipping votes for former Rep. Rick Lazio during the last state GOP convention in 2010 and succeeded in keeping then - Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's tally below the 50 percent mark necessary to get onto the ballot.