Sentences with phrase «use special elections»

27 states use special elections to fill legislative vacancies.

Former Florida Rep. Alan Grayson may not be in Congress anymore, but he is using the special election in Georgia's 6th Congressional District to raise money for himself.

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He may choose to announce his decisions a month before that, using the issue to swing Republican votes in the upcoming Pennsylvania special congressional election.

The NRSC official said that when the committee did use targeted sharing in the Massachusetts special election in June 2013, it showed results, but «we just didn't see the engagement numbers we needed to see to indicate that it was going to be transformative this [past] cycle.»

Fake news was also a key issue in the 2016 vote, with special counsel Robert Mueller indicting 13 Russians in February for using bogus social media accounts to interfere in the election process.

Monserrate lives in Queens — in the 39th AD, which used to be represented by Jose Peralta, who vacated the seat to block Monserrate from regaining his Senate post in a March 16 special election.

Special advisor to the founder and leader of PNP, Koli Salam Youchaou, revealed that Togo has never had a free and fair elections hence the need to use other alternative means to unseat the ruling government.

He can't on the one hand acknowledge a vacancy to have occurred in March that he uses as a defense to issue a Special Election in November because he must declare the Special Election within 30 - 40 days of said acknoledgement, and then claim on the other hand the vacancy occurs after July 1st which precludes him from calling the Special in the first place.

For example, during the special election in March, Didi Barret used the entire front cover of the Journal complete with a Poughkeepsie Journal photograph.

The head of the city Board of Elections has been removed from office Tuesday over a series of errors that have occurred on his watch, including the confusing ballot that was almost used in the special election to replace the late City Councilman Thomas White.

Former FBI special agent Clint Watts, in Senate testimony last March, stated that «part of the reason active measures worked in this election is that the Commander - in - Chief has used Russian active measures at times, against his opponents.»

Enact Public Campaign Financing: In order to free state government from control by wealthy special interests and pay - to - play corruption, election and ethics reform must include full public financing of state elections on the model used by Arizona and Maine.

The NY - 20 congressman, who won his seat in a close special election and is now running in hopes of keeping it, used the fact that he has been endorsed by both the WFP and the state Independence Party (which has its own share of legal issues) to tout his cross-party appeal.

For more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special election.

Ryan, of course, is the author of the controversial budget plan that Hochul was able to effectively use after Assemblywoman Jane Corwin, her GOP opponent in a special election, failed to articulate a stance on the proposal.

The party is most proud of the significant victory by Yuh - Line Niou, a 33 - year - old Taiwan - born Assembly staffer who — as a WFP candidate — lost the April special election for the Lower Manhattan seat that used to belong to former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

«It's my expectation that the voters of the 9th C.D.... will use [the special election] to send a message to both the Democratic Party and to the Republican Party and its leadership,» Koch said.

And even though special elections historically generate little enthusiasm, officials from both parties used words like dismal to describe the turnout Tuesday.

Kaminsky won an April special election to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was ousted after he was found guilty on charges of using his official power to aid his son's business interests.

Greenfield opened the account in 2013 when he was considering running for a state seat, his office said — one year before getting named chairman of the Land Use Committee, and the same year he was re-elected to his first full term after winning a special election in 2010.

Former FBI special agent Clint Watts, in Senate testimony last March, stated that «part of the reason active measures worked in this election is that the commander in chief has used Russian active measures at times, against his opponents.»

Kaminsky was first elected in a special election in April to fill the unexpired term of ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, a Republican who was ousted after being convicted on charges of using his official powers to aid his son's business interests.

For this election cycle we have a special on job creation plans for areas that are overtaxed and underemployed that will help you fool the voters and can also be used as pull quotes in video ads and direct mail.

There are local contests all across the state, including a special election in the Southern Tier's 52nd Senate District to fill the vacant seat that used to belong to ex-Sen.

Senate Republicans are again using de Blasio as a foil in a key special election to fill former Majority Leader Dean Skelos» seat on Long Island.

In previous special elections in Westchester, Republicans have had the edge because fewer people come out to vote and that used to mean more traditional, Republican voters.

Don't be surprised if he deploys Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy, who was used effectively in the 20th congressional district special election that scored an upset win for Democrat Kathy Hochul over Republican Assemblywoman Jane Corwin.

School districts, villages and other special election districts can continue to use lever - style voting machines through 2014, under a law signed today by Cuomo.

WASHINGTON (CNN)-- In the final hours before the special election to fill the congressional seat in New York's 20th district, Democratic candidate Scott Murphy is using controversial Republican figures to get voters to come out to the polls on Tuesday.

Niou spent $ 26,000 during the 32 - day special pre-election filing period — including to pay for the services of longtime Democratic Party operative Chung Seto, a top aide to former city Comptroller John Liu, and to election lawyer Martin Connor, a former state senator who used to represent the same downtown neighborhoods that encompass the 65th Assembly District.

In special elections or run - offs where turn out is traditionally lower, campaigns should use absentee voter outreach as a way to increase voter turnout by providing an easy way for voters to vote.

California has used a unified primary ballot — that is, a single primary ballot that contained all candidates from all parties — in all special elections since 1967.

Election: Special Edition (Blu - ray) Details: 1999, The Criterion Collection Rated: R, language, sexual content, sex - related dialogue, drug use The lowdown: Reese Witherspoon plays perky, overachiever and super-ambitious Tracy Flick in this comedy, which costars Matthew Broderick as the high school teacher who can't stand Tracy's bubbly and perky personality.

(f) When used in subsection (a) or (c) of this section, the words «Federal election» shall mean any general, special, or primary election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing or selecting any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the Senate, or Member of the House of Representatives.»

The dollar amount used to determine excess employee compensation with respect to a single - employer defined benefit pension plan for which the special election has been made is $ 1,115,000.

In fact, the debate in this country over land use has become emblematic of American democracy: a struggle between competing special interest groups to influence common laws and policies through elections.

«Electoral intervention is not supposed to be a non-profit's main activity, but these dark money groups are abusing their tax - exempt status by existing primarily as vehicles for corporations and wealthy donors to secretly influence elections,» Fischer noted, adding, «Some dark money non-profits might now use lobbying as an accounting trick to balance their books between electoral and non-electoral spending, leading to a spiraling cycle of non-stop campaigning and special interest influence, but with zero transparency or public accountability.»