by MCDC | Nov 13, 2013 | Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
From Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest Some comical conservative misunderstandings over the population density of Virginia counties have yielded a positive result: a new spate of attention to cartograms, a type of map that, by deliberately deforming geographic...
by MCDC | Nov 12, 2013 | Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
Mark Herring’s statistically miniscule edge over Mark Obenshain in the attorney general race grew to 163 votes Tuesday evening as a midnight deadline approached for localities to finish counting ballots and report their tallies to the state. That updated count...
by MCDC | Nov 12, 2013 | Ethics, Health Care, News
Following the report that Insurer Humana was fined $65,000 in Kentucky for sending out 6,500 misleading cancellation letters for low-premiums plans only to be automatic re-enrollment in high cost plans before these customers were given a chance to shop on the open...
by MCDC | Nov 12, 2013 | Action Alerts, Coal, Mountain Top Removal, Virginia
The Federal Highway Administration is preparing to seal the fate of the Coalfields Expressway project and they need to hear directly from you that this project is nothing more than a mountaintop removal project being disguised as a highway. Please join us in...
by MCDC | Nov 12, 2013 | Virginia, Virginia Election 2013, Voter Rights
Democratic state Sen. Mark R. Herring took the lead in the extraordinarily tight Virginia attorney general race Monday evening, after he picked up more than 100 previously uncounted votes in Richmond. Herring had started the day trailing his Republican opponent, state...
by MCDC | Nov 11, 2013 | Virginia, Virginia Election 2013, Voter Rights
Legal wrangling is a given during any recount, but Virginia Republicans got off to an early start over the weekend, potentially exploiting the state’s new voter ID law to cast aside likely Democratic votes. The vast majority of Virginia’s votes had already...
