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Efforts to Register and Provide Ballots to DC Felons in Federal Prisons Face Hurdles
About 300 of the approximately 2,600 federal prison inmates from the District of Columbia have registered to vote in the November general elections, according to a review by the News4 I-Team. A newly passed D.C. law gave voting rights to incarcerated felons from the District, but efforts to register and provide ballots to those inmates have encountered hurdles, the I-Team…
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In Big States, Tiny Counties, Trump Attacking Voting Rules
President Trump’s reelection campaign and his allies in the Republican party are working the election referees. They’re peppering some of the thousands of local elections offices around the country with complaints and demands as voting begins the presidential election.
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Petition for Recall of DC Councilman Jack Evans Submitted to Elections Board
Activists seeking the recall of D.C. Councilman Jack Evans delivered a petition with thousands of signatures to the D.C. Board of Elections Monday afternoon.
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Effort to Recall DC Councilman Jack Evans Hits Milestone
Activists hand delivered thousands of signatures to the D.C. Board of Elections Monday afternoon seeking to recall Councilman Jack Evans. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.
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Republican Bevin Concedes to Democrat Beshear in Kentucky Governor Race
Republican Gov. Matt Bevin conceded to Democratic archnemesis Andy Beshear on Thursday, putting an end to Kentucky’s bitterly fought governor’s race. Bevin, an ally of President Donald Trump, made the dramatic announcement outside his statehouse office on the same day election officials across Kentucky double-checked vote totals at his request. “We’re going to have a change in the governorship based...
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Court to Hear Arguments on Maryland Political Ads Law
After revelations of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, Maryland legislators passed a law that many believe has a laudable purpose: preventing foreign interference in local elections. But its sweeping scope sparked a First Amendment outcry from more than a half dozen newspapers, including The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun.
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Campaign to Recall DC Councilman Jack Evans Wins Approval
The Washington, D.C., Board of Elections has approved a petition to recall a city councilman who used his position to solicit business from area lobbyists.
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Consultant on North Carolina Race: Methods Were Surprise
The North Carolina political consultant hired to manage the campaign of the Republican in the country’s last unsettled congressional election said Tuesday that he was surprised at how little he knew last year about an operative’s sketchy activities. Political operative Leslie McCrae Dowless conducted an illegal and well-funded ballot-harvesting operation last year, North Carolina’s elections director testified...
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North Carolina Election Fraud Probed Long Before 2018 Race
Long before accusations of absentee ballot fraud in a small North Carolina county cast doubt on the results of a heated 2018 congressional race, a state elections investigator spent weeks probing whether the man at the center of the current scandal was among a group buying votes. That 2010 investigation was one of at least a half dozen instances over...
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Montgomery County Executive Race Remains Too Close to Call
The results for the Montgomery County executive race could be determined by next Friday, according to the Board of Elections.
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Fairfax County Elections Director Fired Ahead of Primary
The director of elections for Fairfax County, Virginia, has been fired with less than two weeks to go before the June 12 primary.
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Report Says 500 Ineligible Voters Cast Ballots in North Carolina
North Carolina elections officials found that about 500 ineligible voters cast ballots in the 2016 general election — but not enough to change the outcome of any race, according to an audit released Friday....
The State Board of Elections report said the 508 cases — the vast majority active felons — represented a small fraction of the 4.8 million ballots cast.... -
Sherwood's Notebook: Life, Liberty and…Death
A law enforcement official being interviewed by CNN was describing the horrific duty of those entering the Pulse gay nightclub and tending to the carnage that lay before them. The person being interviewed said in the eerie silence, cellphones of the dead were going off.