Spike Cohen, the vice-presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party will be meeting with supporters on Friday in Manassas.
Cohen and his running mate, Dr. Jo Jorgenson, have been crossing the country rally support for their campaign. Cohen’s stop in Manassas begins a three-week bus tour across the country. The coronavirus and the nation’s response to the pandemic it sparked is a key campaign issue for the Libertarians.
A multitude of Virginians mail in their ballots each election cycle, this year, however, thousands have received unsolicited and incorrectly labeled absentee ballot applications.
Earlier this week, the Prince William County Office of Elections released a statement stating that the office has been receiving ‘numerous phone calls and complaints’ regarding absentee ballot applications sent from The Center for Voter Information, a third-party organization unaffiliated with the state, or Prince William County Office of Elections.
This November will be one unlike any other. Several localities in Virginia are encouraging the electorate to vote by mail to make sure the spread of the coronavirus does not infect voters or the democratic process.
In Manassas, voters will have the option via postcard to select whether or not they can apply for a ballot this November. Voters will be able to cast absentee ballots starting on Sept. 19, 45 days before the election.
Prince William County is expected to see a sharp rise in the number of early voters and mail-in ballots for the November 2020 election, according to a presentation by general registrar Michele White.
Earlier this year, the Virginia General Assembly passed a no-excuse early voting law which allows people to vote early both in-person and via mail ballot without providing an excuse for doing so.
Tim Parrish is the newly elected leader of the Prince William County Republican Committee. He was elected during an “unassembled” convention on Saturday, June 27, where committee members drove their ballots to multiple polling places to include the Prince William County Government Center on Prince William Parkway, and the Dr. A.J. Ferlazzo Building in Woodbridge.
Parrish, an honorably discharged U.S. Marine, beat fellow candidates Carol Czarkowski and William Johnston for the job. He will replace William “Bill” Card.
Daniel M. Gade will be the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate to face incumbent Mark Warner (D) in the November 3 General Election.
Gade handily beat his Republican Primary Election opponents Allisa A. Baldwin, and Thomas Speciale II with 67% of the vote. Locally Gade won Prince William and Stafford counties with 58% and 64% of the vote, respectively.
Tuesday is Primary Day across Virginia, where voters will head to the polls to choose candidates for Senate and House of Representatives.
Polls open at 6 a.m. Tuesday, June 23, and close at 7 p.m.
Manassas citizens will have the chance to vote to select three out of four Democrats running for City Council in a June 23 Primary.
Polls in the city will open at 6 a.m. and close at 7 p.m.
Manassas citizens will have the chance to vote to select three out of four Democrats running for City Council in a June 23 Primary.
Polls in the city will open at 6 a.m. and close at 7 p.m.
The Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) has called for the immediate resignation of Delegate Lee Carter (D-Manassas, Bristow) for ‘abusing his power as an elected official in Virginia to bully and intimidate law enforcement officers and threaten to cut police budgets.’
This comes in the wake of a video posted on Facebook by Isaiah Knight, the Director-Elect of the Peaks of Otter Soil and Water Conservation District and Chairman of Virginia Families PAC, that appears to depict Delegate Carter saying ‘I’m a member of the general assembly. I write the state police’s budget. They’re gonna f***ing regret it.’
