Sentences with phrase «valid petition»

The candidate still must gather legally valid petition signatures to qualify for the primary election.

It takes 25,000 valid petition signatures for a candidate to receive ballot access.

However, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that certain ballot access requirements, such as filing fees and submitting a certain number of valid petition signatures do not constitute additional qualifications and thus few Constitutional restrictions exist as to how harsh ballot access laws can be.

But he was kicked off the ballot after failing to gather enough valid petition signatures for the Independence Party line in the November election.

The three - member board voted unanimously to allow the referendum on the November ballot, ruling that park district opponents had obtained the necessary number of valid petition signatures.

A judge has ruled Buffalo School Board President James Sampson does not have enough valid petition signatures to be on the ballot for the upcoming board election.

Pidot had tried to get on the ballot for a Republican primary that was supposed to take place last Tuesday, but the state Board of Elections ruled back in May that he did not have enough valid petition signatures to qualify.

A State Supreme court has thrown Rep. Nan Hayworth off of the Independence Party line after determining that she didn't submit 770 valid petitions.

At the end of a four - hour hearing, the board determined Masterpole had more than the 1,000 valid petition signatures needed to remain in the race.

Syracuse Councilor at Large Jean Kessner will soon begin gathering the 1,000 valid petition signatures she'll need by mid-July to wage a primary election to hold on to her seat.

Sections 69 and 110 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and section 116 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) empowers INEC to conduct Recall proceedings against a member of the National Assembly, State House of Assembly, or the Area Council of the FCT, upon the receipt of a valid petition alleging a loss of confidence in the member, by more than 50 % of voters registered to vote in that member's constituency.

Faso and Stefanik both have valid petitions for the Republican, Conservative, Independence and Reform lines in November.

The only independent presidential petition submitted in North Dakota this year is the Jill Stein petition, and the Secretary of State has already determined that it is a valid petition.

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.

For initiatives hoping to be granted ballot access, a minimum of 241,153 valid petition signatures are required to qualify an Initiative to the People for the 2012 statewide ballot.

In order for a party to gain ballot access, a party must obtain about 85,000 valid petitions.

Each Democratic candidate needs 1,000 valid petition signatures from party members to get on the primary ballot.

After six weeks of legal wrangling, the Appellate Division Fourth Department ruled Wednesday that Bush had 347 valid petition signatures from Republicans, one more than he needed to compete in the primary.

Spitzer needs 3,750 valid petition signatures to get on the Democratic primary ballot for September.

After six weeks of court battles, the appeals court last week ruled that Bush had 347 valid petition signatures, one more than he needed to get on the ballot.

If the challenge is upheld, Perez Williams would be short of the 1,250 valid petition signatures needed to appear on the primary ballot.

Giordano, who currently works in the Harrison tax receiver's office, collected only 177 valid petition signatures.

Spitzer appeared on Leno's show in California less than 24 hours after a four - day flurry of canvassing for 3,750 valid petitions to run for city comptroller — submitting more than 27,000 signatures to the city Board of Elections late Thursday night ahead of a midnight deadline.

[12] Alaska Constitution Party Chairman J.R. Myers succeeded in submitting the required 3,017 valid petition signatures by August 19 for a place on the November ballot.

If it receives the required 650,000 valid petition signatures and carries a statewide vote, probably on the November 1992 ballot, the measure would give California residents the most sweeping educational - choice program in the nation.