Sentence examples for ballot challenge from inspiring English sources

Democrats have threatened a ballot challenge if the bargaining ban goes through — potentially pushing the fight into the November 2012 election.

Democrats have also threatened a ballot challenge if the bargaining ban goes through — potentially pushing the fight into the November 2012 election.

The ruling paves the way for the restoration of gay marriage in California, which was permitted before a majority of voters blocked it under the 2008 ballot challenge.

He helped win approval of a luxury Novato housing project known as Black Point over the objections of the Sierra Club and worked to defeat a ballot challenge to a Lowe's home improvement store in Cotati.

At a news conference in Tallahassee, Fla., former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who is helping to direct the Gore ballot challenge said there was "no constitutional crisis" and no "threat at the moment to our standing overseas".

But an equal or greater irritant, many said, was that the council was moving ahead without a public vote, and on an accelerated schedule — fluoridation is to be put into effect in only about 18 months — which could make a public ballot challenge difficult.

In addition to the eight upstate districts, ballot challenges are pending in Nassau County.

In September 2005, the company's Brooklyn employees voted 15 to 5 to unionize, with one ballot challenged.

Most, however, managed to knock off these pesky competitors through ballot challenges and proceed with business as usual.

With the recount nearly done, a state report listed 2,839 ballot challenges for Mr. Emmer and 35 for Mr. Dayton, who withdrew them Thursday.

Mr. Buchanan contends that the drawn-out challenge to his candidacy's legitimacy, which includes continuing ballot challenges in state courts, is ultimately being financed by Mr. Perot.