By Adam Pagnucco. As the year 2024 is about to end, let’s look at back at the stories YOU picked as the biggest ones on Montgomery Perspective over the past…
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State Board of Elections Fights Deepfakes
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By Adam Pagnucco. Deepfakes are phony images and videos created with artificial intelligence that spread false information, including about candidates and elections. WMAR-2 in Baltimore highlighted these two X posts…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Yesterday, I reported on a creepy mailer from a nonprofit urging people to vote by comparing their voter records to their neighbors. In a comment to me,…
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Boards of Elections Comment on Creepy Mailer
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By Adam Pagnucco. Yesterday, our post about a creepy get out the vote mailer from a nonprofit spread like wildfire and, at this writing, has soared to number one in…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Like most of you, I get lots of political mail. Almost all of it encourages me to vote for or against someone or something. Recently, I received…
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Five Ways to Ensure Your Voting Rights
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From the Montgomery County Board of Elections.Contact: Marjorie Roher, 240-777-8525 For Immediate Release: April 9, 2009 Five Ways to Ensure Your Voting Rights Montgomery County Election Director, Margaret Jurgensen, encourages…
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By Marc Korman. In Part One we talked about Maryland’s participation in the National Popular Vote effort. But Maryland is also heavily involved with another effort to legislate around the…
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By Marc Korman. Maryland is at the forefront of two pieces of legislation, one state and one federal, which creatively use statutes to deal with issues that are arguably constitutional….
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How MoCo Does Special Elections
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Montgomery County Council vacancies are filled by special elections. So why shouldn’t we do the same for state legislator vacancies? Here’s how the county process works. When a council vacancy…
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The Real Vote in District 18
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So the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee has picked the next delegate. Activists are already running wild, yelling, “It’s undemocratic! The people were not able to vote!” Say what? Of…
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