MORGANTOWN — Monday was the 13th day of the legislative session and the House and Senate were both getting busier moving bills during their floor sessions. The House dealt with drug, booze and voting bills, while the Senate passed on dealing with school closures and consolidations. The ...
This week the Carter County Clerk reported to fiscal court that new mandates for voting machines could cost the county in excess of $400,000. While the federal government is providing the county with a small portion of the funds needed for the replacement — a total of $57,000 — with 26 ...
MORGANTOWN -- Supporters of Senator Joe Manchin’s voting rights reform Freedom to Vote Act rallied in front of the Zackquill Morgan statue on Spruce Street Wednesday afternoon. About 40 people were in attendance, including several state delegates, university activists and community ...
MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County Clerk Carye Blaney said her office has already started deciphering how the West Virginia Legislature’s redistricting efforts will impact local elections. “We have begun the process of starting to look at our magisterial lines and our precinct lines. As ...
by Stephen L. Carter Whether the Democratic Party’s burgeoning opposition to charter schools will lead to electoral trouble is an open question, but this much seems clear: As time passes and evidence piles up, the party’s position seems not only cruel but also absurd. The ...
by Ramesh Ponnuru Neither Republicans nor Democrats want to admit the shocking truth about 2020: The U.S. election system performed well. Americans went through a pandemic and had to change voting procedures in response to it, with all the partisan controversy that entailed. Both ...