Sentence examples for ballot status from inspiring English sources

They would have gotten ballot status, at least.

Sanders went on to get 6% of the vote in the general election and win ballot status for the Liberty Union party.

Paul Bader, who is running in the 39th District in Brooklyn, did not receive matching funds because his ballot status is tied up in court.

You promote the idea that state law be changed to prevent minor parties from cross-endorsing in gubernatorial years when every party -- major and minor -- must poll 50,000 votes to renew their ballot status.

But with three minor parties losing their ballot status, analysts predict that candidates, particularly those for statewide office, will covet an Independence endorsement even more than they do now.

In 1998 the Green Party achieved ballot status when its candidate for governor, Al Lewis, received over 50,000 votes.

If Mr. Cuomo declined its endorsement, the party would almost certainly lose its ballot line status for statewide elections.

The new law also requires that when there is a dispute about whether someone is eligible to vote, he or she must be given a "provisional" ballot, whose status will be determined later.

People did not have to be registered to vote to cast ballots, and citizenship status and prior criminal convictions were irrelevant.

Republicans proposed that everyone bring photo identification to the polls; Democrats wanted so-called provisional ballots, allowing those whose eligibility is in question to vote but delaying the count of their ballots until their status is resolved.

The pain of this contradiction seems to be at the heart of Burnside's experience of being in the world, wanting nothing to do with the "apparatus of property values and marital status and ballot papers" and yet helplessly part of it; torn between solitude and community.