Msnbc voting updates

Read the whole story here: Hala Ayala vs. Winsome Sears: Virginia's next lieutenant governor will make history. Voters who identified as Democrats and Republicans said they were concerned about wages — an issue that both Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin have said they would address if elected.

Debbie Johnson, 56, voted for Youngkin after the candidate promised to increase pay for teachers. I think increasing standards is important in schools," she said. Danny Lopez, 51, voted for McAuliffe as a result of the Democrats' stance on paid family leave. I want him to win," Lopez said. Parental concerns over closures, mask mandates and so-called bias against white people in school curriculums pushed education issues to center stage in the gubernatorial race.

McAuliffe on Sunday called for greater teacher diversity across the commonwealth. He also promised to create a program to attract teachers of color, should he win the election.

Youngkin's line of thinking mirrrored a concern of year-old Virginia Commonwealth University medical student Douglas Hogan when casting his vote. For Whitney Tidwell, 33, of Richmond, the election gave her an opportunity for a different kind of education: to teach her young son about the electoral process. Gooditis, a Democrat, is up for reelection as the delegate for the 10th District of the Virginia House.

Education has been a hot button topic among Virginia voters. Outside the polling center in Leesburg on a drizzly Tuesday morning, Gooditis greeted voters after they cast their ballots and thanked poll workers. This was one of a host of stops throughout her district, where she said she plans on discussing education and COVID misinformation with constituents.

Allison Russo on Monday. The two candidates are running in a district that favors the GOP to replace former Rep. Steve Stivers, a Republican who resigned to take a job in the private sector. Carey also has gotten a boost from national Republican groups and a campaign visit from former Vice President Mike Pence, according to The Columbus Dispatch. At one precinct in Augusta County, Virginia , chief election officer Lesley Piner said she had to ask the county for more ballots before lunchtime, having run out by 11 a.

Piner said the county only gave the precinct about ballots for the day. They had surpassed that before noon. About 50 people in the precinct opted to vote early and more than out of a total of 1, registered voters had voted in the morning — a number that shocked Piner.

Confronting rising crime has been a major focus, but candidates have also addressed concerns about affordable housing, bolstering struggling city services and keeping the wealthy Buckhead neighborhood from seceding.

Attacks on Reed over corruption in his administration have been a major subplot, although Reed says the federal investigation regarding him was closed without charges.

With a total of 14 candidates in the nonpartisan race, a Nov. Other top candidates include attorney Sharon Gay and council members Andre Dickens and Antonio Brown, with large numbers of voters undecided. Meanwhile, Republicans are watching for any mistakes in Atlanta that could justify a state takeover of elections in heavily Democratic Fulton County, under a sweeping new state law approved amid unproven claims of fraud by former President Donald Trump and his allies.

The race was jolted when Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced in May that she wouldn't seek a second term. Bottoms broke a decades-long tradition of mayors serving eight years, saying she wasn't interested in a reelection bid. The last Atlanta mayor who served only a single term was Sam Massell, who lost to Maynard Jackson in as African Americans took power in city government. Voters with disabilities are enjoying a new era of political relevance this Election Day thanks to the COVID pandemic — both the reforms it spurred and the inequities it laid bare.

Election Assistance Commission. Turnout rose to Democrats outnumber Republicans in New York 7-to Biden wants to blame inflation on everything besides his own spending policies: Brian Brenberg.

Election Day is the first test for some of the hundreds of new voting laws adopted in the year since the election. The analysis reveals changes, seen and unseen, to how we vote. Those laws include changes to the number of days available for early voting and the hours available to cast ballots on Election Day. Read more about the changes here. The candidates, both Democrats in a nonpartisan race, have chiefly clashed over issues such as affordable housing, public education and transportation.

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No formula means no preclearance powers for the Justice Department , which opened the door to a slew of election changes in GOP-controlled states. The Supreme Court made matters worse this year in Brnovich v. Arizona , the case that has made it harder to sue for alleged Section 2 violations. Louis, explained in a guest post at Election Law Blog , any rollback of laws that make it easier for minorities to vote would be fair game for a lawsuit from the Justice Department.

That would be great for warding off future attempts to cut back on voting by mail and other options, as the Republicans in the Texas Legislature are trying. While the House is expected to take up the bill next week and pass it during a brief interruption in its August recess, the Senate is in no way poised to get this bill over the finish line any time soon.

Joe Manchin, D-W.