Tag: Voting
Bad Weather on Election Day Usually Helps GOP. Why This Time...
I admit it. It increases my stress to read the weather forecast for the U.S. on Election Day. "Storms are forecast in some of...
Virginia Absentee Ballot Numbers As of 10/26 at 445% of TOTAL...
I posted last Saturday on absentee voting ballots requested/submitted as of October 19. Now, the Virginia State Board of Elections website has numbers available through October 26. Here are...
Video: PW County School Board Chair Babur Lateef Reminds Virginians We...
Thanks to Prince William County School Board Chair Babur Lateef for reminding us all that today is the first day Virginians can vote in...
One Person, One Vote, in Congressional Elections
Cross posted from Vox Fairfax
For a very brief two years, 1933–35, Virginia was gerrymander-free, as its nine congressional representatives were elected at large, i.e.,...
Midterms Matter. Trumpism Cannot Withstand High Turnout
By Gary Broderick; article originally appeared in RVA Magazine
Progressive yard signs are visible throughout my neighborhood of Church Hill, declaring “Black Lives Matter” and...
AG Mark Herring Joins Bipartisan Coalition Urging Congress to Protect Election...
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring keeps on churning out strong work in a wide variety of areas, this time election integrity. Nice job.
AG HERRING...
After Justice Kennedy, What Should We Learn? Moaning Never Changes Anything;...
by Bert Berlin
Yesterday, I was really upset. I saw the march toward justice in the courts, which I observed during my entire legal career,...
If Millions of Dems Hadn’t Sat Home in 2000, 2004, 2010,...
For anyone who (idiotically) thinks that voting doesn't matter (spoiler alert IT DOES! as does getting even more involved, as I started to do...
Virginia Primary Day Tuesday News: “‘Rocket Man’ 1, Trump 0”; Trump...
by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, Virginia primary day, June 12, 2018. Make sure you...
Video: Linda Perriello at Women’s March in Roanoke Declares, “the people...
See below for video and a transcript of the superb Linda Perriello's speech at last Saturday's Women's March in Roanoke. For all the other...