libertarian party
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Setting aside marijuana possession convictions is the kind of wise choice that can turn more Marylanders into Libertarians.
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Baltimore County residents packed the County Council chambers Tuesday night to speak out on plans to raise the local income tax for the first time in nearly three decades.
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The state should recognize Green and Libertarian parties, which have many supporters in Maryland.
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Maryland voters registered as members of the Green and Libertarian parties may have received a letter in the mail asking them to switch parties. Here's why.
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The 2020 race will be first and foremost a referendum on Donald Trump, says Jules Witcover.
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Americans must surely realize that criminalizing drug use is a lose-lose proposition.
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Under a proposed bill, Baltimore could offer ranked choice voting. Voters would list their favored candidates in order. If a candidate doesn't receive a majority of support overall, officials would count voters' second choices and then the third choices, until a winning candidate breaks 50 percent.
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Libertarian party promoted sentencing reform long before President Donald Trump and others jumped on board.
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In equating Democrats with democracy, The Sun's editorial board demonstrates a lack of perspective.
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More than 100 people protested outside Congressman Andy Harris's Bel Air office Thursday in support of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into suspected Russian meddling on behalf of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign after AG Jeff Sessions was forced to resigned.
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Democrats will hold on to their slim majority on the Baltimore County Council after all of the incumbents retained their seats in Tuesday’s general election.
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Readers respond on why they voted in Maryland's election.
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The Baltimore Sun's election coverage leaves out third party candidates.
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Despite the gubernatorial race being centered on Republican Larry Hogan and Democrat Ben Jealous, there are more than two names on the ballot for the state’s highest office.
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Early voting for the Nov. 6 general election kicked off Thursday across Maryland.
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Voters who write "independent" instead of checking "Unaffiliated" on their Maryland Voter Registration Application form may not realize they joined a third party. The State Board of Elections clarified the form after confusion over the issue in 2010. Some voters may still need to fix their status.
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Voter registration in Maryland has hit a record, according to the state Board of Elections. There were 3,992,451 active registered voters in the state as of Tuesday morning. That surpassed the record set in January 2017 of 3,977,637. The deadline to register online is 9 p.m. Tuesday.
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The number of Maryland voters registered as independents has grown faster than those for either major party since the 2014 midterms. The state elections board says the number of registered voters overall topped 3.9 million in September. That's just shy of the record high, set in January 2017.
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If Democrats win control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November, Elijah Cummings is in line to ascend to the chairmanship of a committee with the authority — so far untapped — to demand documents related to Donald Trump’s personal finances and policies, as well as possible agency abuses.
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With less than a month to go until Election Day, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan continues to hold a commanding lead as he seeks a second term in charge of Maryland's state government.
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With less than two months to go before Election Day, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has increased his already large lead over Democratic challenger Ben Jealous, according to a new poll from Goucher College. The survey conducted statewide last week reported Hogan lead Jealous by 22 percentage points.
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The Bread and Roses party's challenge to Maryland's "sore loser" law should be right up Gov. Larry Hogan's alley.
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The Bread and Roses Party, a self-identified socialist group, is 227 certified signatures away from the 10,000 it needs to get onto the ballot in Maryland. The state Board of Elections rejected the party's request to list Jerome Segal as its U.S. Senate candidate, and he's suing the board.
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Voters don't just need more debates between the two major candidates for governor, they need to hear from all the candidates for governor.
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Maryland should neither regulate marijuana nor pay for 4-year-olds to be in school.
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The same three candidates in the primary election race for two Harford County Circuit Court judgeships will square off again in the November general election, with a fourth candidate added to the mix in a race that is being closely watched locally for its political and judicial implications.
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The Baltimore Sun continues to ignore Libertarian options that the voters of Maryland will have on November 6. So much for expecting unbiased coverage of our elections.
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With less than three months until November’s general election, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has a sizable lead over Democratic challenger Ben Jealous, according to a new poll.
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Candidates who were in the lead after the initial results were tallied after Tuesday's primary election remained there Thursday after the first of three canvasses of absentee and provisional ballots was completed.
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Vanessa Atterbeary, Shane Pendergrass and Jen Terrasa came out on top in the Democratic primary for the House of Delegates.
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All three candidates in the race for Harford Circuit Court judge who were on Tuesday’s primary ballot will be back on the general election ballot in November, after a challenger to two sitting judges finished well enough to deny them outright victories.
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Several key Republican races for county offices and local legislative seats were settled by Tuesday’s primary election voting in Harford County, but a number of others were close enough to need the count of absentee and provisional ballots to determine the outcome.
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Five Baltimore County Council members held off primary challengers Tuesday. Democrats Julian E. Jones Jr. of Woodstock and Tom Quirk of Oella and Republicans Todd Crandell of Dundalk, Wade Kach of Cockeysville and David Marks of Perry Hall all now advance to the general election in November.
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Jason Gallion, selected by the Maryland Republican Party to run for the District 35 Senate seat after Sen. Wayne Norman died in March, says he will remain a candidate after the primary, despite reports of a "switch" that involves him running for delegate and Del. Teresa Reilly for Senate.
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Eight days of early voting in Harford County begins Thursday. Democratic and Republican voters can cast their ballots in statewide and local races ahead of the June 26 primary election.
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The eight Democrats and four Republicans in the June primaries include at least three candidates who have run for Congress before.
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Three people are running for the two open Harford County Circuit Court judge seats.
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What is the process of filling the seat of Sen. Wayne Norman for the duration of his term, following his death Sunday? The state's Republican central committee has already selected a Harford resident to run in his place on the party's primary election ticket this year.
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U.S. Rep. Andy Harris hosts town hall meeting at Joppa-Magnolia fire hall Thursday evening.
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Gov. Larry Hogan filed candidacy paperwork on Thursday making his run for re-election official.
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A libertarian supporting a “self-described democratic socialist” ideas for healthcare tells you how broken our medical health insurance system is for the average American.
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In a recent letter Myles Stanley tries to refute what Kristin Janeczek said about the Democratic Party. Mr. Stanley offers a confused mish mash of tired old
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Candidates are starting to register for the local and state races in Harford County in the 2018 gubernatorial election.
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Donald Trump gets law enforcement and the attorney general's office scarily wrong.
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While the state has added nearly 100,000 jobs since January 2015, the head of Gov. Larry Hogan's Workforce Development Board says there are not enough people
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For Carroll County residents living in one of the municipalities, the "nonpartisan" Mayoral and Town Council elections are upon us. This got me wondering, why
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After the craziest presidential election in recent memory, we offer a 2016 dictionary of dysfunction.
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There's a delightful exercise in the imagination of how H. L. Mencken, the iconic iconoclast of the early 20th Century, would have viewed the election of Donald Trump to the presidency.
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Maryland will send two new lawmakers to the House of Representatives for the first time in more than a decade.
