Tag: elections
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Four new candidates declare in North Carolina
Ballotpedia tracked four new state-level candidates in North Carolina between Aug. 7 and Aug. 13. This was one more candidate than the prior week. One of those candidates is a Democrat and three are Republican. All four are running for state executive offices in 2024. Details on these candidates are below: Ben Clark (D) is…
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One new candidate declares in Indiana
Ballotpedia tracked one new state-level candidate in Indiana between Aug. 7 and Aug. 13. This was the same number of candidates as the prior week. The candidate is a Republican and is running for state executive office in 2024. Details on the candidate are below: Curtis Hill (R) is running for Governor of Indiana. Hill…
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Two new candidates declare in Colorado
Two new candidates declared their intent to run for state-level offices in Colorado between Aug. 7 and Aug. 13, according to Ballotpedia’s ongoing tracking. This was two more candidates than the prior week. One of those candidates is a Democrat and one is a Republican. Both are running for the state legislature in 2024. Details…
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1.5% of all absentee/mail-in ballots were rejected in 2022
Voters cast 36,683,450 absentee/mail-in ballots in the 2022 general election. Of that total 549,824—or 1.5%—were rejected, roughly equal to the 1.4% rejection rate in 2018, the most recent midterm election, and up from the 1.0% and 0.8% rejection rates in the 2016 and 2020 presidential election cycles, respectively. Between the midterm election cycles in 2018…
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Two new candidates declare in Florida
Two new candidates declared their intent to run for state-level offices in Florida between July 31 and Aug. 6, according to Ballotpedia’s ongoing tracking. This was one more candidate than the prior week. Both candidates are Republicans and are running for the state legislature in 2024. Details on these candidates are below: Kim Kendall (R)…
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One new candidate declares in Indiana
Ballotpedia tracked one new state-level candidate in Indiana between July 31 and Aug. 6. This was one more candidate than the prior week. The candidate is a Republican and is running for a state executive office in 2024. Details on the candidate are below: Jamie Reitenour (R) is running for Governor of Indiana. Reitenour said,…
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Three new candidates declare in North Carolina
Three new candidates declared their intent to run for state-level offices in North Carolina between July 31 and Aug. 6, according to Ballotpedia’s ongoing tracking. This was three more candidates than the prior week. Two of those candidates are Republican and one is Libertarian. All three are running for state executive offices in 2024. Details…
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Two new candidates declare in New York
Two new candidates declared their intent to run for state-level offices in New York between July 31 and Aug. 6, according to Ballotpedia’s ongoing tracking. This was two more candidates than the prior week. Both candidates are running for the state legislature in 2023. One of those candidates is a Democrat and one is a…
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Campaign finance filing deadline shows Donald Trump (R), Joe Biden (D) leading respective presidential primaries in fundraising
Incumbent President Joe Biden (D) leads the Democratic primary field in fundraising with $20 million in receipts. He is followed by environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D) with $6 million and author Marianne Williamson (D) with $2 million. Kennedy currently leads in campaign spending with $1.8 million in disbursements, followed by Williamson with $1.6…
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The 2024 election calendar continues to take shape
The 2024 November election is quickly approaching, and the presidential primary calendar is continuing to take shape. As of June 22, 2023, thirty states have confirmed the dates for their 2024 presidential preference primaries through the release of an official election calendar, candidate filing instructions, or an announcement from a state political party. A presidential…