Posts that broadly address the issue of voting and legislative power.

Why West Virginia is Right to Count Timely-Cast Absentee Ballots Received After Election Day

West Virginia, being the rural, mountainous state it is, has communication issues. Notably it takes longer for US Postal Service mail to get out and to get in. Our state has long recognized the problem and given absentee voters extra time to get their mailed ballots to their elections' office, as long as they are mailed before election day. This grace policy is under threat by Republicans and Neal Barkus describes what this will mean if they eliminate it.
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A Chaotic Conclusion to the 2026 Legislative Session

The WV Legislator meets for two winter months to decide on new legislation which (with the governor's signing) will make its way into law. John Doyle gives a wrap of the 2026 session and tells the sad tale that Jefferson County came away with just about nothing of consequence. And worse, the chaotic close of the session meant that even the good bills which made it to the final votes, failed to even get those votes. The clock ran out.

Becoming Mean, Becoming Great

MAGA and the Republican control over government in West Virginia and Jefferson County is not paving a way for us to achieve the greatness that MAGA claims to lay. Jim Bauman considers the consequences of following MAGA methods of control, methods which have been used historically to suppress and oppress. We need to vote ourselves in legislators who are led by the humanitarian principles of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.