Sentence examples for challenging petition from inspiring English sources

But challenging petition signatures as a form of political chicanery in the Land of Lincoln has a long history.

"It's a barrier to the ballot, correct?" Mr. Vacco asked Mr. Sheekey about challenging petitions.

Mr. Badillo is also accusing Mr. Bloomberg of challenging petitions he had filed to create a party called Citizens and Labor Unity.

He also has experience challenging petitions; last year, a campaign he managed found that a Republican state senator had included a dead woman on a list of signatures.

"I'm not someone who challenges petitions," Stringer, who is currently Manhattan's borough president, said while greeting voters Friday in downtown Brooklyn.

There are also many surviving technical rules that allow an opponent to challenge petitions in court, in the hope of knocking a candidate off the ballot: the person signing must list the city or town of residence, not the village; the person circulating the petition must live in the same Congressional district as the people signing that petition.

Mr. Critz, in the sort of frenemy move that usually comes when members of different parties face off, tried, unsuccessfully, to get Mr. Altmire removed from the primary ballot by challenging his petition signatures.

The party is not challenging his petitions.

Compton Unified School District officials challenged the petition in court, which ruled that because the signatures were not dated, the petition was not valid.

"WNBC-TV challenged our petition.

In a last-ditch effort, another group, Professional Oklahoma Educators, has challenged the petition's legality in the state supreme court with a decision pending.