Breaking News

TAG: mail-in voting

Exec order isn’t an election takeover

The way West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner talks about President Biden’s Executive Order No. 14019, you would think the executive branch was trying to wrest control of elections from the states and impose a federalized system. We read the executive order in question and find ...

Guest essay: Why do so few people in W.Va. vote?

by Judy K. Ball Final election results from the November midterms in West Virginia, released Dec. 9, revealed shockingly low voter turnout. Statewide, 43% of registered voters cast ballots in the election, meaning more voters stayed home than cast ballots. Only five of our 55 counties ...

Democrats mastered mail-in balloting

Republicans will pay if they fail to step up The first thing Allegheny County Republican Chairman Sam DeMarco saw on election night after the polls closed was the more than 100,000 votes from his home county that dropped for Democrat John Fetterman through mail-in ballots. Although he ...

The Good, the Bad and the Stupid 2

Good: SB 477 — to establish the PROMISE Plus scholarship, which will supplement the PROMISE scholarship to equal the full cost of tuition for students who meet “more rigorous” standards. Once upon a time, the PROMISE scholarship was basically a free-ride — until the rising tuition at ...

What it means for everyone to have the freedom to vote

The Senate is now considering the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. There’s a lot of talk of what these bills could mean for our country, but what do they actually do? We’ll look at the Freedom to Vote Act for now. According to its congressional ...

  • 1
  • 2