MCPS Ethics Policy You can view the official MCPS and MCPS BOE Ethics Policy here. After reading the ethics policy and hearing that Joftus has said he will recuse himself from these decisions regarding KID Museum, it became clear to that he is following ethics guidelines by the rules. JoftusContinue Reading
Paula Bienenfeld’s Campaign Issued Press Release Today Independent Running In order for people to get on the ballot who are not in one of the two primary parties in Maryland they need to collect signatures. This is a very long time consuming process as you need to collect over 1000Continue Reading
Introduction If you haven’t seen, after the recount in the Democratic Primary County Executive race, Marc Elrich won by 32 votes. Local map maker twitter user JamesN has given us permission to share his maps showing precinct voting breakdown for several of the Democratic primary races. You can also subscribeContinue Reading
Editor Note: A recent decision about the charter amendment process has reignited conversation about the last time around. Ballot Question C Added On August 4th 2020 the County Council introduced and adopted a resolution for a ballot question adding two seats to the county council. This question was placed onContinue Reading
What is a Cropduster? I had no idea Olney was getting a semi-pro baseball team this summer until a neighbor and fellow parent of young children brought it up. “Did you hear about this new Olney semi-pro team. The Cropdusters?” Nope. I confessed I had not. What is a Cropduster? Continue Reading
Quick Video Summary Of This Post Certified Election Results The election was officially certified on August 13, 2022 as evidenced in the tweet below with Marc Elrich winning by 35 votes. David Blair Requests Recount As reported by Steve Bohnel of Bethesda Beat, here is the requested order of recount:Continue Reading
Introduction See our previous posts on the County Executive race analysis and projections here Voting Registration Data as of 2022 Primary can be found here. Over the weekend Elrich claimed victory and Blair held out hope and indicating a recount is coming. More from their statements about this after theContinue Reading
Background You may remember that on 7/22 there was a seemingly huge jump in covid positive hospital admissions On 7/29 we posted an update which included multiple responses from DHHS and other government officials. We maintained, despite resistance that there was likely either an error or it was a dataContinue Reading
Introduction (Read this first) These charts are similar and a follow up to our previous posts which can all be found here. Updates And Remaining Votes To Count So far to date there are at least 63,595 Democratic mail-ins received in Montgomery County and 58,210 mail-in votes tallied for theContinue Reading
Introduction (Read this first) These charts are similar and a follow up to our previous posts which can all be found here. Updates And Remaining Votes To Count So far to date there are at least 63,584 Democratic mail-ins received in Montgomery County and 55,286 mail-in votes tallied for theContinue Reading