Sentences with phrase «to qualify for the ballot»

Today is the last day to turn in those petitions with enough signatures to qualify for a ballot line.

Few if any statewide candidate will qualify for the ballot by collecting 10,000 signatures.

This year, making a repeat run, his goal is to not just qualify for ballot status, but to get 250,000 votes, about 5 percent of the total vote.

He is the only candidate of the three who qualified for the ballot this time by petition, turning in more than 5,000 certified signatures.

In 2008 the Socialist Equality Party has also announced a ticket, but that ticket did not qualify for the ballot in any state.

The State Elections Enforcement Commission has not yet put its stamp of approval on the financing, and no money would be distributed until after the candidates qualify for the ballot at the state Republican convention in May.

Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker turns in his nomination papers July 6 to qualify for the ballot at the Government Accountability Board office in Madison.

Esposito is hardly alone: Democrats running in key swing races have not qualified for the ballot line, including Sens. Ted O'Brien and Cecilia Tkaczyk who were all denied to run as a Women's Equality Party candidate.

Saratoga Springs Supervisor Joanne Yepsen, who fell 32 signatures short of qualifying for the ballot to challenge then - Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's successor, Roy McDonald, in 2008, is now preparing to take another shot at unseating him, DSCC officials confirmed.

Voting Procedure: NKD endorsement ballots include all candidates who NKD is aware to be preparing to petition for, actively petitioning for, or already qualified for a ballot line in the relevant election, as well as a «No Endorsement» option.

Foster announced Monday that she wouldn't run in November even though she had qualified for the ballot as a petition candidate.

He ran for governor four years ago and earned enough votes to automatically qualify for the ballot in November.

No Congressional candidate has ever qualified for ballot in a regular Georgia election since ballot access laws were last changed in 1964

If Bellavia did not get the Conservative Party nod, he could still qualify for the ballot by collecting 3,500 signatures within 12 days of the governor's proclamation of the date of the special election.

Toby Shelley walks door to door in Eastwood to ask Democrats to sign his petitions to qualify for the ballot for the Onondaga County executive's race against Republican Joanie Mahoney.

Diane Dwire, a member of the Onondaga County Democratic Committee who supports Balter, had filed a legal challenge to last week's ruling by the state Board of Elections that Perez Williams qualified for the ballot.

Monday, the campaign was notified that it had collected the required signatures from 3,321 voters in Senate District 22 to qualify for the ballot without having to pay a filing fee.

State Officer Mark Kravis is leading the Reform Party of California in a voter registration drive to boost its membership numbers this election cycle as well, in order to qualify for ballot access in 2016.

In addition he has ongoing litigation in Pennsylvania, Alabama and Arkansas where De La Fuente qualified for the ballot, but the respective board of elections are trying to bar him from the ballot.

On Thursday, Colorado's Secretary of State said businessman Blaha and former Aurora city councilman Frazier also did not qualify for the ballot because signatures were rejected in at least three congressional districts.

«We properly followed the same process that has long led to great Working Families Party candidates qualifying for the ballot and winning elections citywide,» Lipton said in a statement.

«I'm happy we were able to qualify for the ballot by petition,» Brandes said Friday.

Hassner insisted the Liberal Party will have the resources to gather enough signatures to qualify for ballot status again.

The Board of Elections initially invalidated approximately 1,512 of their signatures, leaving them with 488 signatures — 12 short of qualifying for the ballot.

Democratic Senate candidate Adam Haber has qualified for the ballot line created to promote the Women's Equality Agenda, his campaign on Wednesday announced.

Generally speaking, you need to collect a minimum number of signatures on government - approved petitions to qualify for the ballot in New York.

All of this, of course, is academic should Spitzer not qualify for the ballot.

We collected more than enough Conservative Party signatures to qualify for the ballot.

The measure dovetails with a separate bill that would require presidential and vice presidential nominees to release their tax returns in order to qualify for the ballot in New York.

Justice Arthur Diamond found Pidot had more than the 1,250 signatures needed to qualify for the ballot, but state and local election officials have maintained there is not enough time logistically meet the requirements of a federal court order that has mandated the June 28 congressional primary to protect military balloting.

Spitzer needs 3,750 signatures by Thursday night to qualify for the ballot.

He has since found a Manhattan residence, so he will qualify for the ballot.

After Spitzer appeared Monday afternoon at his petition drive with no staffers in tow — and few volunteers canvassing the area — questions remain about whether his hurried campaign will be able to collect the 3,750 signatures from registered Democrats required to qualify for the ballot by the midnight deadline this Thursday.

There had been questions as to whether Spitzer could raise the nearly 4,000 valid signatures to qualify for the ballot, especially after his main adviser, former labor organizer Neal Kwatra, quit after one day.

Eliot Spitzer submitted 27,000 signatures to qualify for the ballot in the Democratic primary for New York City comptroller tonight, an effort completed less than four days after a rocky start.

Martins» legal move comes after U.S. District Court Judge Frederick Scullin on Wednesday ordered the special primary after state courts had ruled that GOP challenger Philip Pidot had more than the minimum 1,250 signatures to qualify for the ballot.

That's because, he said, he «refused» to fundraise other than his own put - ins until after he'd qualified for the ballot - despite two fundraising emails he put out a month ago.

«By resorting to corrupt party politics to try to block debate in this election, he is sending a clear message to the scores of volunteers — not paid people — who collected more than five times the number of signatures I needed to qualify for the ballot: that your passion for change and healthy politics does not count or matter.»

Cuomo's formation of the women - centric ballot line could hinder the party's efforts at achieving 50,000 votes, the necessary threshold to qualify for the ballot.

Spitzer is in a last - minute mad dash to qualify for the ballot.

A minimum of 500 signatures is needed to qualify for the ballot.

If at least 365,880 signatures are found to be valid, the measure will qualify for the ballot.

Now on the ballot in 24 states, the campaign is petitioning in every state remaining, and aims to qualify for the ballot in at least 40 states.

Unfortunately, I learned today that I did not garner the necessary signatures to qualify for the ballot.

The New York State Board of Elections ruled that Harrington's designating petitions had many defects and insufficient signatures to qualify for the ballot.

Under current law, a new party must get signatures equal to two percent of the most recent vote for governor or president to qualify for the ballot.

So he must also submit a petition of 6,018 valid signatures, by late June, to qualify for the ballot.

The Democratic primary for this seat is crowded, with six candidates qualifying for the ballot: Tedra Cobb of St. Lawrence County; Patrick Nelson of Saratoga County; Dylan Ratigan and Katie Wilson of Essex County; Emily Martz of Saranac Lake; and Don Boyajian of Washington County.

Spitzer has already used a considerable amount of money to hire canvassers to gather more than 27,000 signatures so he could qualify for the ballot.

Cuomo and his running mate, former Rep. Kathy Hochul, along with Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Comptroller Tom DiNapoli have all qualified for the ballot line.