General Assembly News

General Assembly WUSA9.com / Oct 25, 2020

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. - Early voting in Maryland begins on Oct. 26 and goes through Nov. 2. You can vote at any early voting center in the county you live in. Maryland also offers same-day registration at Early Voting Centers and at the polls on Election Day.

General Assembly The Times and Democrat / Oct 25, 2020

After winning handily in the June Democratic primary, veteran District 95 Rep. Jerry Govan of Orangeburg is facing a third-party challenger on Nov. 3. Govan is opposed by Willie Legette of the Labor Party. In June, Govan defeated challenger Kevin Ray with 4,404 votes, receiving 76.83% of the vote.

General Assembly The Times / Oct 25, 2020

Residents in Beaver and Lawrence counties were "Ridin' with Biden" this weekend. Monaca, Ellwood City and New Castle gathered to show support for Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, driving through neighborhoods with signs, flags and banners taped to their vehicles.

General Assembly The Columbus Dispatch / Oct 25, 2020

Karl Rove, the GOP gunslinger who helped make George W. Bush president, worries about the Ohio Supreme Court's political makeup. Maybe Ohioans should, too. Trouble is, many won't, partly because Ohio's judicial ballot is voter-unfriendly, so voters skip it. In 2016, more than 5.5 million Ohioans voted for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton or someone else for president.

General Assembly Dayton 24/7 Now / Oct 25, 2020

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Ohio (WKEF/WRGT) - Governor Mike DeWine has announced apackage which will allocate more than $419 million to businesses across the state. On this post on Twitter, you can see that money will be allocated to seven different areas.

General Assembly Richmond.com / Oct 25, 2020

Down the electoral ballot, Virginians are weighing a question about power over the political maps that will govern the state for the next decade. Constitutional Amendment 1 would curb the legislature's control over General Assembly and congressional districts ahead of redistricting in 2021, shifting map-drawing duties to a commission of lawmakers and citizens, and if they deadlock, to the right-leaning Virginia Supreme Court.

General Assembly newportri.com / Oct 25, 2020

Ahead of the Nov. 3 general election, The Daily News reached out to candidates vying in contested races for seats in the General Assembly. In addition to basic information, we asked them what makes them best suited to represent their district at the State House. Name: Walter S. Felag Jr.

General Assembly Canton Repository / Oct 25, 2020

COLUMBUS Voters who want to cast ballots by mail in the 2020 general election would do well to get their requests in by Tuesday. Yes, the official deadline in Ohio law doesn't come until the Saturday before the election - Oct. 31 this year.

General Assembly newberryobserver.com / Oct 25, 2020

State Senator Ronnie Cromer represents South Carolina's 18th District, which includes all of Newberry County, as well as parts of Lexington and Union counties. Since 1967, counties have not been guaranteed a resident senator. The fact that we have one today is something of a political and statistical anomaly since Lexington County voters make up about 70 percent of the voting population in District 18.

General Assembly WRAL.com / Oct 24, 2020

Control over redistricting, and the political power that can flow from it, may be the most fundamental prize at stake in this year's General Assembly races. If one party controls the North Carolina House and Senate, they decide where the lines are, not only for their own districts, but for Congressional ones as well.

General Assembly Xinhua / Oct 24, 2020

Video: Brenden Varma, spokesman of President of the UN General Assembly Volkan Bozkir, says on Oct. 23, 2020 that "For him it is very important to foster this kind of coordination between the top elected official of the United Nations and the top elected official of New York City so that we can make sure the General Assembly is functioning properly and everyone is safe."

General Assembly WUSA9.com / Oct 24, 2020

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. - Voters in Fairfax County will elect the president and vice president, members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, as well as statewide ballot questions and a range of local seats. Early voting in Virginia started on Friday, September 18th and registered voters have until October 31st to vote at early voting locations across the commonwealth.

General Assembly WUSA9.com / Oct 24, 2020

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. - Voters in Montgomery County will elect a President and Vice President of the United States, as well as a number of local officials, in the 2020 general election on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Early voting in Maryland will span the eight days before Election Day, from Oct.

General Assembly Altoona Mirror / Oct 24, 2020

The fiscal time bomb challenging the best budget instincts of the Pennsylvania General Assembly keeps getting closer to exploding. The important question that should be in the minds of state taxpayers is whether lawmakers really have enough time between now and Nov. 30 to fashion a realistic spending plan for the remainder of this fiscal [...]

General Assembly WWBT NBC12 News / Oct 24, 2020

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Question one - a proposed constitutional amendment - is on ballots across the commonwealth. Supporters of the amendment say it will end gerrymandering as we know it, but opponents say it doesn't go far enough. For groups like the League of Women Voters of Virginia, the fight for redistricting reform has been decades in the making.

General Assembly PassBlue / Oct 24, 2020

Since its founding 75 years ago, the United Nations has proven, with the support of its member countries and other partners, its worth in complex problem-solving. That includes preventing great-power wars, remedying humanitarian emergencies, safeguarding human rights and reducing extreme poverty. But as we commemorate UN Day, with world leaders having marked the world body's ...

General Assembly Blue Virginia / Oct 24, 2020

by Chris Ambrose The deceptively named "Fair Maps" people have taken their vicious and dishonest campaign to a new level. These folks have been waging a nasty and knowingly dishonest campaign for months now, in an effort to characterize the strong Democratic support for independent redistricting as somehow support for gerrymandering.