voting
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Evan Glass Endorses Ranked-Choice Voting
Read more: Evan Glass Endorses Ranked-Choice VotingGoing back to November 7, 2023, Council Member Evan Glass expressed his support for ranked-choice voting. It’s Election Day! Make sure to vote if there’s an election in your community. And let’s continue working to ensure that there’s ranked choice voting in more communities next year!#electionday #rankedchoicevoting #rcv #democracy pic.twitter.com/zvYS2O4NFN — Councilmember Evan Glass (@CMEvanGlass)…
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Networking at Conferences is Not a Critical Election Reform
Read more: Networking at Conferences is Not a Critical Election ReformIn State reform needed to make politics fairer, Council Member Evan Glass lauds the public campaign financing programs available in Maryland, and seeks to expand such programs to allow beneficiaries of the funding to purchase tickets to networking and community events. Such an amendment will further “level the playing field” for candidates running campaigns with…
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Jamie Raskin, Local County Council Acolytes, Strangely Silent on Democracy-Smashing Fraud Found in Bridgeport, CT Democratic Primary Election
Read more: Jamie Raskin, Local County Council Acolytes, Strangely Silent on Democracy-Smashing Fraud Found in Bridgeport, CT Democratic Primary ElectionWhere are CM Evan Glass and Congressman Raskin and all the democracy acolytes on the County Council on the recent election fraud revelations that shook the Connecticut political world this past week?
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How To Win in MoCo…Maybe
Read more: How To Win in MoCo…MaybeLast week we provided a counter to Adam Pagnucco’s article “A War for MCPS? Part Three” where he laid out his recommendations for how a non-establishment candidate could win a seat on the MCPS Board of Education (or County Council). This week we want to provide an alternate strategy. Now to be fair, our political expertise…
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36-Year Career Politician Marc Elrich Doesn’t “Believe in Term Limits” Anywhere — But 80% of Democrats Do
Read more: 36-Year Career Politician Marc Elrich Doesn’t “Believe in Term Limits” Anywhere — But 80% of Democrats DoA new article on MoCo360.media covers the burgeoning “2 Terms” movement to restrict the Montgomery County Executive to two consecutive terms – mirroring neighboring counties like Frederick County, MD and Prince George’s. The article by Ginny Bixby quotes Marc Elrich as saying he is against political office term limits in all its forms and places.…
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MD Voter Integrity Group Condemns “New Rule” of MD Board of Elections
Read more: MD Voter Integrity Group Condemns “New Rule” of MD Board of ElectionsThe following press release is being published with permission by the Maryland Voter Integrity Group Maryland Voter Integrity Group Condemns the “new rule” put in by the Maryland Board of Elections that “criminalizes” Citizen Engagement POTOMAC, MD – August 29, 2023 – The Maryland State Board of Elections quietly changed a statewide regulation to prohibit the…
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A Local Movement for Ranked-Choice Voting Arises
Read more: A Local Movement for Ranked-Choice Voting ArisesIn these needlessly divisive times, it’s easy to despair for the future. If you need a dose of optimism that doesn’t need a prescription, join the ranked-choice voting movement, where participants are enthusiastically working to reclaim our democracy at the local, state, and federal levels. The Maryland state chapter of Rank the Vote came to…
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Ranked-Choice Voting Proves Itself in Arlington
Read more: Ranked-Choice Voting Proves Itself in ArlingtonThe effort for election reform continues (oh so slowly) in the region, and it passed a major milestone on June 20. That was the day Democratic voters nominated primary winners for the Arlington County Board—and they used ranked-choice voting. Before explaining why this is so significant, let’s refresh how we elect our own at-large members…
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Take Action: Change MCPS Elections
Read more: Take Action: Change MCPS ElectionsFollowing our explainer about the Board of Education’s illegitimate at-large elections, I received additional information on the matter from Delegate Marc Korman (D-Montgomery County). In addition to House Bill 0655 introduced by Delegate Brian M. Crosby (D-St. Mary’s), our very own MoCo House delegation recently introduced HB0380 to mandate district voting for the BoE’s district…
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MCPS Board of Education: MoCo’s most illegitimate governing body
Read more: MCPS Board of Education: MoCo’s most illegitimate governing bodyEmployees using MCPS credit cards for suspiciously personal use; secretive policy meetings; a proposed 10% tax hike to fund a school system with no performance improvements in return; capricious boundary changes. There are lots of reasons that people are upset with the Board of Education, but I fail to see the need for a rumpus.…