Sentence examples for petitioning challenges from inspiring English sources

Asked about Mr. Spitzer's petitioning challenges, Sascha Owen, campaign manager for Mr. Spitzer's Democratic opponent, Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president, contrasted Mr. Spitzer's "using his personal fortune to pay canvassers upwards of $800 per day" and Mr. Stringer's collecting more than 100,000 signatures through an "all-volunteer grass-roots effort".

The second petition challenges the result in Woking, Surrey.

Either way, the Republicans would not have the three votes necessary to validate the petition challenges.

To block the petition challenges, the Democrats could either abstain or vote no.

The state board has no jurisdiction over those two districts, where local boards of elections judge petition challenges.

The state board has no jurisdiction over those three districts, where local boards of elections referee petition challenges.

Petition challenges brought by George W. Bush's camp have succeeded in removing Steve Forbes from the ballot in several Long Island districts for minor errors.

Mr. Giuliani did not specifically refer to Gov. George E. Pataki, who approved of the petition challenges, or other state Republican Party leaders.

Almost daily in the last week, Mr. McCain has demanded that Mr. Bush and Gov. George E. Pataki, Mr. Bush's most prominent supporter in the state, forswear petition challenges.

Each petition challenges the constitutionality of some aspect of the prisoner's conviction or sentence, even though that conviction and sentence already have been affirmed by at least one state court, and sometimes several.

Chicago election officials on Monday began sifting through hundreds of petition challenges to candidates in the mayoral election, including more than 30 objections to the candidacy of Rahm Emanuel, the former White House chief of staff.