Sentences with phrase «valid signature challenge»

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He believes it is a challenge to his attempt to get on the ticket which claimed not all of the nearly 3,000 signatures he gathered were valid.

On January 31, 2012, the Oklahoma Libertarian Party and the Oklahoma Green Party filed a lawsuit, challenging the state's ballot access procedure for newly - qualifying parties, which this year required 51,739 valid signatures due March 1 (the state defends the early deadline on the grounds that all parties, even newly - qualifying parties, must choose nominees in the June primary).

If Mangano, a Republican, wants to challenge former State Sen. Jack Martins, the GOP's choice for county executive, he has until July 13 to file at least 2,000 valid signatures of registered Republicans who support his candidacy.

In both of those challenges, the state Board of Elections found that Perez Williams had 1,897 valid signatures, more than 600 above the amount required to secure a ballot spot.

First, it is rare that a major party is pushed off the ballot due to signature challenges (meaning that he didn't collect enough valid signatures on his nominating petitions in order to meet the legal requirement).

Candidates are able to challenge signatures if they believe they are not valid and the city Board of Elections can strike the signatures from the record if it turns out they, for example, are from individuals who are not registered to vote in the district.?

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

But two separate challenges to Babinec's petitions found he failed to meet that threshold: One state hearing officer found he had 955 valid signatures; a second found he had 533 valid signatures.

Spitzer has until Thursday to collect nearly 4,000 valid signatures — and likely many more in case of legal challenges to the validity of those signatures — to get on the ballot.