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Up Next. The Fulcrum. Governor Hogan's Last Minute Attempt to Stop Democratic Gerrymander in Maryland. January 18, 2021. Editor's Note: This article. originally published. on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher…

Up Next. Open Primaries. The Case for Open Primaries in Maryland. June 15, 2021. Within a year from now, Maryland voters will head to the polls to elect their party candidates for the 2022 elections. While voters from the Democratic, Republican, and other…

Darius Holt. Darius Holt is a Maryland resident and a registered independent voter. He graduated from the College of Southern Maryland with an Associate Degree in General Studies and majoring in political science. He is a member of Independent Voting.…

Steve Goodale. A dual US/UK citizen, Steve grew up in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina before moving to London as an adult. He now works as a digital marketing consultant and in his spare time is the webmaster and World Editor for News Growl.…

partisan district-drawing cases in both Maryland and North Carolina, the already hot topic of gerrymandering grew even more fiery, with both sides anxious to see what the nation’s highest court does - or doesn’t do - to intervene. Last year, the court…

as a three-judge panel had ordered in May. The Supreme Court had put the panel’s ruling on hold ahead of its rulings, issued the next month, in two major gerrymandering cases from Maryland and North Carolina. The justices in June dealt a major blow to…

are advocates for open primaries: Bernie Sanders, John Delaney, and Eric Swalwell on the Democratic side, and former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld and potentially Maryland Governor Larry Hogan on the GOP side. Add to this list Howard Schultz, who is…

Baltimore’s mayoral elections. This reform would increase turnout and electoral competition.". The. Abell Foundation. published Warshaw's study just in time for Maryland's June 2 primary. In it, Warshaw examines three problems he identified with Baltimore elections…

Deconstructed to discuss the challenges of our current partisan political environment and how to address them. In 2018, Mr. Simon ran as an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate for the State of Maryland. He polled well and even made it into a debate before…

Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Wyoming call for adopting ranked choice voting for all state and federal offices, as Maine did via referendum in 2016. Bills in Indiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, and Virginia would give local governments…