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Get to know the candidates: Breckenridge City Commissioner contenders answer profile questions
April 15, 2024
The election is scheduled for Saturday, May 4. Early voting is underway.
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About 40% of Texas election administrators leave their job each presidential election cycle, report finds
April 09, 2024
The state’s turnover rate has held steady at 40% since 2014. That’s slightly above the new national average. In Gillespie County, in the Texas Hill Country, an entire election staff resigned in 2022 after workers struggled to combat fringe election conspiracy theories that began before Trump lost the presidential race in 2020.
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North Carolina counties losing elections directors. Concerns point to lousy pay, voter hostility.
March 27, 2024
Seven counties in the state have lost elections directors since January. More than 50, including many in rural areas, have left in last 5 years. State leaders say they’re worried about loss of knowledge.
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Mississippi Moves 10 Voting Precincts, Provides Incorrect or Missing Information For 90
March 11, 2024
The Mississippi Free Press’ latest investigation and an examination of data in the Statewide Election Management System found missing, incomplete, incorrect or old addresses for 90 precincts across 19 counties – a slight decrease from the 92 errors across 21 counties the MFP found ahead of the November 2023 statewide elections.
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Trump Wins Michigan with Slightly Greater Support in Rural Areas and Suburbs
February 28, 2024
Donald Trump’s victory in Michigan echoed some of the themes from his South Carolina win – strong rural support, coupled with popularity among voters in suburbs and small metropolitan areas.
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The Organizers Forging a Rural Action Plan for 2024
February 21, 2024
Barn Raiser kicks off its 2024 election coverage with a series of interviews with rural policy experts and organizers who came together to forge a rural policy platform on which candidates can run—and to which voters can hold their elected leaders accountable.
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A Native voting ecosystem in Nevada
February 21, 2024
Grassroots organizations, the state Indian commission, county governments and tribal nations work collectively to increase Native American voter engagement.
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Constitutional abortion backers file lawsuit to get on November’s ballot
January 26, 2024
The lawsuit refutes Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s findings that the proposed ballot language is ‘legally insufficient.’
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Trump Underperforms Slightly with Rural N.H. Voters
January 24, 2024
Donald Trump won all but one of New Hampshire’s 10 counties. He performed 2.5 percentage points better in urban areas than rural ones.
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Voting rights at center of tribal dispute with city
January 08, 2024
The City of Martin in South Dakota has asked that the Oglala Sioux Tribe waive its sovereign immunity or pre-pay an undetermined amount of attorney fees and administrative fees for the records it requested.
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Record number of candidates vying for Kronenwetter board seats
January 03, 2024
This is only the second time in Village of Kronenwetter history that a primary election is necessary in a race for the Village trustees.
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It Is, Once Again, an Election Year.
January 03, 2024
And despite a healthy economy, research suggests economic anxieties could fuel the outcome of the 2024 election cycle, especially for rural Americans.
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Voters didn’t have a say in nearly 75% of local Central Virginia races this year — because there weren’t enough candidates
November 22, 2023
Getting more people to run is a complicated issue plaguing localities nationwide. The jobs are time-consuming with little-to-no pay, threats against elected officials have scared some people off and, unless you’re a Republican in a rural area or a Democrat in a major city, the odds of getting elected aren’t favorable.
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What Montana’s mayor-elects say they’ll do
November 10, 2023
Voters elected new mayors this month in Missoula, Bozeman and Great Falls.
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Rural Voters Shift Toward Democrat in Kentucky Governor’s Race
November 09, 2023
Incumbent Andy Beshear won reelection and gained ground with rural voters in a state that went for Donald Trump by 25 points in 2020.
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