As the 2024 Montgomery County Primary Election approaches, we’ll update this page with all the information from a variety of local news sources so you can look at everything in one place.
Register to Vote / Update Registration
First off, make sure you are registered to vote and your registration is up to date!
For the Board of Education, everyone can vote for every position regardless of your party affiliation or where you live. Other positions your voting options are dependent on your party and where you live.
Click here to see more information from the Montgomery County Board of Elections such as deadlines for registration and vote by mail updates, polling locations, and more.
Vote 411
The League of Women’s voters provides a voters guide each election with information about all of the positions up for election and information submitted by many/most candidates. Click the link to look up what positions are on your ballot based on your address.
MoCo360 (formerly Bethesda Beat) Voters Guide
MoCo360 has a Voters Guide for most of the positions up for election which you can see here.
Board of Education
If you know our blog, you know that education is one of our biggest focuses.
We hosted the first ever in person Moderately MOCO event – a BOE candidate forum which you can watch here.
Below is a graphic showing the answers to our Yes/No rapid fire questions during the forum.
We did not do a questionnaire this year but you can see lots of candidates answers to other questionnaires if you read on.
Montgomery County Taxpayers League
The Montgomery County Taxpayers League created some handy charts on all candidates positions generated from the Montgomery Perspective Questionnaires (next section) which you can see here grouped by race or everyone.
Montgomery Perspective Questionnaire
In the meantime, Adam Pagnucco at Montgomery Perspective has done a really good candidate questionnaire, and he is posting the answers by all candidates on a different post for each question.
So far he has posted answers about side payments to MCPS employees, teachers salaries, “what they believed was MCPS’s biggest problem, their experience with budgets, their opinions on the incumbents, their positions on opt outs and their positons on police officers in schools“
MoCo360 Voters Guide
The previously discussed MoCo360 Voters Guide contains information from most of the Board of Education candidates which can be found here.
They also made individual posts for all 3 races: At Large, District 2, and District 4
See more of our other recent posts here
- Addressing the Balance of Responsibility Between MCPS and MCPD for the School-to-Prison Pipeline
- Disturbing Footage: Knife Threat Neutralized at JFK High School
- Exclusive MPIA: MCPS Spent $775k On Bus Tracking Program – Family Pilot Program Scrapped But Benefits Remain
- BOE Primary Election Forum: April 15 Forum Video and Comprehensive Answer Sheet
- 2024 Moderately MOCO Board of Education Candidate Forum on Monday April 15
- My Testimony On County Council FY25 Operating Budget
- Primary Election 2024 Montgomery County Headquarters Released
- M-NCPPC Files Civil Suit Against County Council Staffer Carolyn Chen – Alleged To Have Charged $11,490 To Council For Benefit Of Spouse
- Opinion: Vanishing Acts in MCPS – A Tale of Leadership Lost and Found
- Opinion: Testimony at the County Council: The Consequences of Restricting Police Searches and Bill 2-24
- MCPS Per-Pupil Expenditure by Each High School (2020-2022)
- MCPS Boundary Studies Updates from 2/27/24 BOE Meeting (Woodward / Crown / Damascus High Schools)
- Opinion: Failing Forward – MCPS Policy Mismanagement in Restorative Justice and Special Education
- Maryland Public School Enrollment: 2019-2020 vs 2023-2024
- Opinion: Beyond the Acronyms – A Teacher’s Call for Action to Truly Serve MCPS’s Students