Unofficial local and county vote tallies from Tuesday's election Office/candidate Votes
A case of small-town politics gone wild is giving the U.S. Supreme Court the opportunity to decide if a defendant can be awarded legal fees for frivolous constitutional claims under [section]1988 when the case also involves interrelated non- frivolous tort claims. The case Fox v. Vice stemmed from a nasty local election for the office of police chief. Billy Ray Vice, the incumbent chief of the town of Vinson, La., employed a host of tactics to dissuade retired state trooper Ricky D. Fox from running against him. Vice's ploys included seeking dirt on Fox from law enforcement sources, embellishing it and threatening to expose the information if Fox ran for mayor, and giving an alleged drug dealer leniency on a criminal matter in exchange for publicly accusing Fox of using a racial slur.
I'M ASHAMED to admit it, but on the Saturday before the big election in November, my wife and I moseyed down to our local election office and voted early. We even took our 10-year-old daughter along to witness this shadowy practice of participating in democracy on a weekend.
Polls are open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Unsure if you're in the 2nd District? Call your local election office: Virginia Beach, (757) 385-8683; Accomack County, (757) 787- 2935; Northampton County, (757) 678-0480; Norfolk, (757) 664-4353; and Hampton, (757) 727-6218.
An organization that wants Missourians to elect all of their judges through direct, partisan campaigns has turned in signatures to try to get on the November ballot. ShowMe Better Courts was one of four groups that submitted signatures by the May 2 deadline in attempts to qualify for this fall's general election. The Secretary of State's Office and local election officials will review the submissions and have until Aug. 3 to certify which groups have enough valid names to make the ballot.
The tally of signatures are those that local election officials had reviewed and submitted to the secretary of state's office, by Friday. Initiatives To qualify an initiative, backers must get the signatures of 5 percent of the registered voters, or 24,377 signatures, including 5 percent of the voters in 34 of the 100 state House districts. * Initiative 160, sponsored by Footloose Montana, would prohibit recreational and commercial trapping of wild mammals and birds on public lands in Montana. Constitutional initiatives To appear on the ballot, a constitutional initiative needs the signatures of 10 percent of the state's registered voters, or 48,674 signatures, including 10 percent of the voters in 40 of the state House districts. * Constitutional Initiative 102, sponsored by the Mont...
If you cast a paper absentee ballot in Virginia and die before Election Day, your vote is supposed to die with you. But if you drive to your local registrar's office and record your absentee vote electronically, election officials have no paper trail and can't rescind it. Your vote will count, even if you don't make it home alive after casting it.
Candidates for local office in the Nov. 2 election have until Friday to file their nomination papers (or until next Wednesday in cases where an incumbent does not file for re-election). Then their next order of business should be to send a campaign statement to The Sun for publication. Once again, we're going to allow candidates for public office in the county to communicate almost directly with the voting public, using our website and/or Opinion pages as the conduits.
An organization that wants Missourians to elect all of their judges through direct, partisan campaigns turned in signatures to try to get on the November ballot. ShowMe Better Courts was one of four groups that submitted signatures by yesterday's deadline in order to qualify for this fall's general election. The Secretary of State's Office and local election officials will review the submissions and have until Aug. 3 to certify which groups have enough valid names to make the ballot.
Since his election to office in November 2002, Summit County Sheriff Dave Edmunds has never worked a 40-hour week. Not even close," he said.
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