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Sample ballots available online for May 14 Primary

Sample ballots for West Virginia’s May 14 Primary Election are now available online for registered voters to review before they vote. According to West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner, the sample ballots available through the search tool are specific to the voter’s residential ...

Primary no-shows a warning to Biden

They’ve almost finished counting votes from the California primary and the news is not good for President Joe Biden. Sure, he “won.” He was virtually unopposed and easily captured California’s largest-in-the-nation bloc of delegates to the Democratic National Convention. His ...

Dump Biden? Why nominating someone else would be a mistake

by Caitlin E. Jewitt Democratic voters and elites are concerned about President Joe Biden’s age and ability to carry out his duties, as well as his lackluster polling against former President Donald Trump. A movement to register dissatisfaction with Biden in Michigan’s primary ...

How will the Republican primary change impact the party?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Hoppy is on vacation this week. This column is from Jan. 30, 2024. The West Virginia Republican Party executive committee has approved a resolution that will limit the party’s primary election to only Republican voters beginning in 2026. The decision reverses the party ...

Iowa and New Hampshire add to the case for electoral reform

by Reinhold Ernst The problem with statistics is that they can be manipulated to support or refute any argument, and the Iowa caucus results are no exception. But despite some conflicting narratives that twist the results in different ways, Iowa and New Hampshire add two more brush ...

State GOP postpones meeting about closing primaries

CHARLESTON — With the state pounded by snow, West Virginia GOP has postponed a meeting that could have included a vote on closing primary voting to party members only. That would have meant voters registered as non-affiliated would not be able to ask for the Republican ballot in primary ...