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If you want to vote by mail, you have to request a mail-in ballot.The Maryland State Board of Elections is mailing ballot request forms for mail-in ballots to more than 3 million registered Maryland voters in advance of the state's 2022 primary election. Ballot requests forms will begin arriving in mailboxes later this week. Maryland's 2022 primary election is on June 28. This year, Maryland state law requires election officials send all voters a form to request a mail-in ballot. After filling out the request form, sign and seal it and return it in the postage-paid envelope that came with the form. To receive a mail-in ballot for the primary election, return envelopes must be received by June 21.Voters who want to vote in person should not fill out and return the form.Alternatively, voters can request a mail-in ballot online if they have a Maryland driver's license or Motor Vehicle Administration-issued ID card.Voters can also visit their local boards of election and fill out and return their ballot request form.This first phase of request forms for the primary election are addressed to registered Democrats and registered Republicans. Voters registered with other political parties, such as the Green Party and Libertarian Party, and unaffiliated voters will receive a request form in a second phase of mailers if there is a primary election in their school board district. Request forms for these voters will be mailed after the deadline for candidates to file for office, so that election officials will know where there are contested school board elections. There will be a final phase of mailers after the primary election for all other registered voters.To vote by mail, you must be registered to vote in Maryland. Visit elections.maryland.gov to register or update your voter record.

If you want to vote by mail, you have to request a mail-in ballot.

The Maryland State Board of Elections is mailing ballot request forms for mail-in ballots to more than 3 million registered Maryland voters in advance of the state's 2022 primary election. Ballot requests forms will begin arriving in mailboxes later this week.

Maryland's 2022 primary election is on June 28.

This year, Maryland state law requires election officials send all voters a form to request a mail-in ballot. After filling out the request form, sign and seal it and return it in the postage-paid envelope that came with the form. To receive a mail-in ballot for the primary election, return envelopes must be received by June 21.

Voters who want to vote in person should not fill out and return the form.

Alternatively, voters can request a mail-in ballot online if they have a Maryland driver's license or Motor Vehicle Administration-issued ID card.

Voters can also visit their local boards of election and fill out and return their ballot request form.

This first phase of request forms for the primary election are addressed to registered Democrats and registered Republicans. Voters registered with other political parties, such as the Green Party and Libertarian Party, and unaffiliated voters will receive a request form in a second phase of mailers if there is a primary election in their school board district. Request forms for these voters will be mailed after the deadline for candidates to file for office, so that election officials will know where there are contested school board elections.

There will be a final phase of mailers after the primary election for all other registered voters.

To vote by mail, you must be registered to vote in Maryland. Visit elections.maryland.gov to register or update your voter record.

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Once upon a time when Knoxville was still a two-newspaper town, the Knoxville Journal sent me to Nashville to cover state government. I was expected to produce a couple of stories a day but wasnt given much guidance as to how to proceed. I arrived at the Legislative Plaza lost in the high weeds.

Then I ran into Carl Koella, whom Id met during the previous summer campaign season. I didnt love his politics, but found him smart, engaging and an endless source of interesting yarns. We had a cup of coffee and the next day I reported that he was fixing to introduce a bill to buy a desert island and turn it into a maximum-security prison for career offenders. This was, of course, preposterous, but I was pretty excited to get the scoop until I learned that every rookie reporter whod come to Nashville for the last decade had written about this bill of Koellas, which was more Fantasy Island than Devils Island.

Oh, well. I still liked Carl, who was considered the most right-wing member of the legislature. He was a Republican, but preferred to call himself a Libertarian, a label Id previously connected primarily to certain disciples of Ayn Rand Id known in college mostly born-on-third-base frat boys who considered her books about objectivism and enlightened self-interest affirmations of their own innate superiority. They bored me half to death, something I never said about the senator from Blount County.

My most enduring memory of Carl was an event I witnessed in his office late one Thursday after legislative business had ended. He hosted a weekly poker game in his inner sanctum at that time, and Id stopped by to ask him a question before I hit the road for Knoxville. The air was thick with cigar smoke and whiskey fumes. He came out to the reception room to talk to me, but our conversation was interrupted by a delegation of Blount County preachers bent on haranguing him about abortion. Their timing was as bad as their manners, and Carl wasted no time informing them that abortion was a matter between a woman and her maker not women and their lawmakers before he showed them the door.

That was a story I didnt write, much as I wanted to, and I remember walking down the long hall and thinking that maybe Libertarians werent just concerned with laissez-faire economics maybe they wanted the government to butt out of everybodys personal lives, too.

That was 30 years before I got to know my next Libertarian, a TV wrestling star who was running for county mayor. I was one of the few whod never heard of his alter ego, Kane, but Glenn Jacobs made a favorable impression on me. He was soft-spoken and much smarter than I expected a guy who wore a rubber mask and smashed people over the heads with folding chairs would be. I was further impressed that he visited local schools and talked to kids about being kind.

Whats not to like?

Well, I did have some misgivings when he bragged that hed been personally endorsed by U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, the highest-placed Libertarian in public office, then, as now.

Rand Paul and Glenn Jacobs

This was years before we anticipated a pandemic, which was when I came to know Paul as a sawed-off bully whod gone swimming in the Senate pool after hed tested positive for Covid. His lack of concern for the health of his colleagues was a whole new take on the virtue of selfishness. The PR photo of big old Jacobs and little bitty Paul is kind of a hoot, although I doubt it was intentionally funny.

The appropriation of the word liberty is another unfunny thing. Libertarians like Paul and Jacobs approve of it when it works to their benefit. They love the Second and 10thAmendments, but dont have any First Amendment willies when it comes to censorship or theocracy. Mask mandates during a pandemic are affronts to their pursuit of happiness; vaccinations a massive assault on their personal liberty. Teachers and front-line healthcare workers dont have any rights at all.

I am clearly in the minority here: Jacobs appears set to walk into a second term as county mayor on his way to a run at the governors office. More immediately, hes going to be donning mask, wig and tights and heading for Mississippi to throw down some choke slams, untroubled by the notion that we are all entitled to enjoy the blessings of liberty, regardless of gender or political bent.

In the interest of accuracy, perhaps theyd consider changing their movements name to something that evokes their leaders philosophy. Jacobites? Nah. Too Catholic. Jacobeans? Too anarchist and, well, French. Its hard to think of a label theyd consent to wear. Maybe we should just call them Authoritarians.

Betty Beanwrites a Thursday opinion column for KnoxTNToday.com.

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Bill Maher says he's finding himself in a weird position these days ... a hero on the right and a villain on the left.

Maher, a libertarian who has been a reliable Democrat, skewered the Dems Friday night on "Real Time" for what he called "goofy s***," but he says it's not about embracing Republicans ... he says it's about teaching Democrats how to effectively fight them.

He seems amused members of George W. Bush's Administration -- which helped get him fired back in the day -- are now suggesting he run for President.

The message was laced with hilarity ... "I am still the same unmarried, childless, pot-smoking libertine I always was. Let's get this straight. It's not me who's changed, it's the left who is now made up of a small contingent who've gone mental and a large contingent who refuse to call them out for it, but I will."

And, then he did ... "People sometimes say to me, 'You know, you didn't use to make fun of the left as much.' Yeah, because they didn't give me so much to work with. The oath of office I took was to comedy. And if you do goofy s***, wherever you are in the spectrum, I'm going to make fun of you because that's where the gold is. And the fact that they are laughing at it should tell you something. It rings true."

Maher made his case by calling San Francisco "a shoplifter's paradise." He called out members of Congress who have advocated canceling rent and mortgages ... members who believe "capitalism is slavery."

Bill didn't mince words ..."It's not my fault that the party of FDR and JFK is turning into the party of LOL and WTF."

On the surface, it sounds like a Republican ad, but Bill's made it clear he thinks the Republican Party -- with its current configuration -- is a danger to the very existence of democracy. Buy it or not, he seems to be saying Dems need a course correction, or else.

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He finished at the back of the pack as a largely unknown in 2021 and is likely to get buried under the Democratic get-out-the-vote machine in November, but Adam Theo is keeping a positive attitude heading into his second consecutive County Board race.

Our county deserves better, Theo said in a Jan. 27 campaign-kickoff announcement, criticizing the all-Democratic County Board for a disastrous lack of leadership.

Board members spend their time rubber-stamping each others bad ideas and spending big on Band-Aids instead of investing in smarter, long-term solutions, said Theo, a Barcroft resident who has lived in Arlington for 11 years.

The new normal is looking just like the old normal, said Theo, who self-identifies as a progressive libertarian on the political spectrum. In his announcement, Theo said his entry into the race would throw it wide open. But he has a steep hill to climb, having garnered just 5.7 percent of the vote in the four-way County Board race of last year.

Democratic incumbent Takis Karantonis won the race with 60.1 percent of the vote, with Audrey Clement (18.4 percent) and Mike Cantwell (13.8 percent) well back. Once having his partys nomination in hand, Karantonis ran a low-key general-election race even by county Democratic-incumbent standards, avoiding any missteps that might have cut into his victory margin.

This year, the seat of Democrat Matt de Ferranti is on the ballot; de Ferranti has been actively fund-raising and is expected to formally kick off his bid for a second term on Feb. 2 before the Arlington County Democratic Committee. To date, he has picked up no intra-party opposition.

De Ferranti in 2018 defeated independent John Vihstadt, who had come to office in a 2014 special election and won that years general election, each time over Democrat Alan Howze. All five current board members are Democrats.

Clement, too, is likely to be in the race, as she has run nearly continuously mostly for County Board but twice for School Board over the past dozen years.

Unless someone within the Democratic ranks emerges to challenge de Ferranti which likely would be decided in a June primary the County Board race largely will be dormant in the eyes of voters until September, when organizations such as the Arlington County Civic Federation and Arlington Committee of 100 begin conducting candidate forums.

Theo serves as vice president of the Ballston-Virginia Square Civic Association and is a delegate to the Civic Federation. His campaign Website is https://www.theoforarlington.org.

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What you need to know about Arkansas' 2022 Primary Elections

Updated: 2:28 PM CST Jan 28, 2022

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NEWS ON THE RECORD OVER THE LAST. FEW WEEKS. WEVE HAD THE CHANCE TO HEAR FROMUR O CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR FOR THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS. THEYRE NOT COMING UP UNTIL NOVEMBER, BUT WE DO HAVE THE PRIMARIES COMING UP IN JUST A FEW SHORT MONTHS JOINING US NOW IS JENNIFER PRICE. SHE IS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECRTO OF THE WASHINGTON COUNTY ELECTION COMMISSION AND JENNIFER BEFORE THE MIDTERMS AND EVEN THE PRIMARIES WE HAVE THE FILGIN PERIOD COMING UP GIVE US A RUNDOWN OF HOW THAT PERIOD GOES WHEN IT IS DAN WHAT WE CAN SEE COME OUT OF THE FILING PERIOD SO THE FILING PERIOD STARTS FEBRUARY THE 22ND AND IT RUNS FORNE O WEEK. IT ENDS ON MCHAR 1ST AT NOON. SO WE HAVE SEVERAL DIFFERENT PLACES FOR CANDIDATES TO FILE ANYONE WHOS RUNNING FOR A FEDERAL OR STATE OFFICE OR NON-PARTISAN JUDICIAL OFFICE WI LL FILE IN LITTLE ROCK SO THEY HAVE THEIR OWN PROCEDURES IN LITTLE ROCK, BUT IF Y'ORE RUNNING FOR A COUNTY OFFICE OR A SCHOOL BOARD OFFICE, YOU ACTUALLY WILL FILE IN YOUR LOCAL COUNTY CLERKS OFFICE. DURING THAT SAME WEEK PEODRI AND IS THERE A FEE FOR THE FILING PERIOD TREHE ARE FEES FOR THE FILING PERIOTHD OSE ARE SET BY THE POLITICAL PARTIES AND IT DEPENDS ON THE OFFEIC YOU RUN FOR AND SOMETIMES IT EVEN DEPENDS ON THE COUNTY THAT YOU RUNN I AND THE POLITICAL PARTY THAT YOURE RUNNING FOR. SO EACH OF THOSE CANDIDATES ARE PLANNING ON FILING. IM SURE HA,VE YOU KNOW CONSULDTE WITH THEIR POLITICAL PARTIES AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THOSE FILINGEE FS ARE NOW FOR NONPARTISAN JUDICIAL OFFICES. THEY DO HAVE AN OPTION TO PAY A FILING FEE OR THEY HAVE AN OPTION TO ACTUALLY GATHER. 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WE SAW IN 2020 AND THEN OF COURSE WE HAVE THE IN-PERSON VOTING FOR TWO WEEKS FOR EARLY VOTING AND THEN ON ELECTION DAY, BUT YES, YOU MUST DECLARE WHICH BALLOT YOU WANT. WE ARE NOT ASKING WHICH PARTY BELONG TO AND IN FACT ONCE THIS SELECTION IS OVER WHEN YOU GET TO THE GENERAL ELECTION, THATS WHERE YOULL SEE THE CANDIDATES ATTH WON THEIR PRIMARIES ON ONE SINGLE BALLOT NOW. YOU TALKED ABOUT THE RISE IN ABSENTEE VOTING. IS IT BECAUSEF O COVID-19 OR MAYBE SOME CHANGES TO LAWS? WHY ARE WE SEEING THAT SURGEON ABSENTEE VOTING AND DOE W EXPECT IT TO CONTINUE ON? SO WE DEFINITELY SAW RISE IN ABSENTEE VOTING DURING 2020 BECAUSE OF COVID-19, YOU KNOW, WE HAD ABOUT A 12% OF NUMBER FOR ABSENTEE VOTING WHICH IS MHUC LARGER THAN THE TYPICAL ONE TO VEFI PERCENT THAT WE HAVE FOR PRIMARY OR GENERAL ELECTION. NOW BACK TO 40/29 NEWS ON THE RECORD ORVE THE LAST FEW WEEKS. WEVE HAD THE CHANCE TO HEAR FROM OUR CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR FOR THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS. THEYREOT N COMING UP UNTIL NOVEMBER, BUT WE DO HAVE THE PRIMARIES COMING UP AND JUST A FEW SHORT MONTHS JOINING US NOW IS JENNIFER PRICE. SHE IS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE WASHINGTON COUNTY ELECTION. STATION AND JENNIFER BEFOREHE T MIDTERMS AND EVEN THE PRIMARIES WE HAVE THE FILING PERIOD COMING UP GIVE US A RUNWNDO OF HOW THAT PERIOD GOES WHEN IT IS AND WHAT WE CAN SEE COME OUT OF THE FILING PERIOD SO THE FILING PEODRI STARTS FEBRUARY THE 22ND AND IT RUNS FOR ONE WEEK. IT ENDS ON MARCH 1ST THAT NOON SO WE HAVE SEVERAL DIFFERENT PLACES FOR CANDIDATES TO FILE ANY. IS RUNNING FOR A FEDERAL OR STATE OFFICE OR NONPARTISAN JUDICIAL OFFICE WILL FILE IN LITTLE ROCK SO THEY HAVE THEIR OWN PROCEDURES IN LITTLE ROCK, BU T IF YOURE RUNNING FOR A COUNTY OFFICE OR A SCHOOL BOARD OFFICE, YOU ACTUALLY WILL FILE IN YOUR LOC CALOUNTY CLERKS OFFICE DURING THAT SAME WEEK PERIOD AND IS TREHE A FEE FOR THE FILING PERDIO SO THERE ARE FEESOR F THE FILING PERIOD THOSE ARE SET BY THE POLITICAL PARTIES AND IT DEPDSEN ON THE OFFICE YOU RUN FOR AND SOMETIMES IT EVEN DEPENDS ON THE COUNTY THATOU Y RUN IN AND THE POLITICAL PARTY ATTH YOURE RUNNING FOR. SO EACH OF THOSE CANDIDATES HERE PLANNING ON FILING. IM SURE HAVE, YOU KNOW CONSULTED WITH THEIR POLITICAL PARTIES AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THOSE FILGIN FEES ARE NOWOR F NON-PERSON JUDICIAL OFFICES. THEY DO HEAV AN OPTION TO PAY A FILING FEE OR THEY HAVE AN OPTION TO ACTUALLY GATHER. TEACHERS AND TO FILE BY PETITION I HAD JENNIFER WHENRE A THE MIDTERMS AND HOW DOES THAT WKOR IN ARKANSAS? FOR EXAMPLE, CAN SOMEONE VOTE FOR BOTH THE DEMOCRATIC AND REBLPUICAN PRIMARIES AND PICK THEIR CANDIDATES FOR BOTH PARTIES? SO THE MIDTERM ELECTION IS MAY 24TH. WE ALSO HAVE TWO WEEKS OF ELYAR VOTING WHICH STARTS MAY 9TH WE DO HAVE WHAT IS CALLED AN OPEN PRIMARY SYSTEM, WHICH MEANS THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE REGISTERED AS A DEMOCRAT OR PUBLICAN OR AN INDEPENDENT OR WHATEVER OTHER POLITICAL PARTY WILL HAVE A PRIMARY WHICH ALLSOW YOU TO SELECT WHICH BALLOT THAT YOU WANT ON ELECTION DAY, BUT YOU DONT HAVE THE OPTNIO OF VOTING FOR A CROSS BALLOT. SO FOR INSTANCE, YOU HAVEO T CHOOSE A DEMOCRATIC OR REPUBLICAN BALLOT, WHICH MEANS YOU CAN ONLY VEOT ON THOSE PRIMARY CANDIDATES AND TNHE OF COURSE IS THE NONPARTISAN AND THE SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES ON THE BALLOT AS WELL. BUT THOSE ARE ON BOTH POLITALIC BALLOTS AS WELLS A THERES A NON-PERSON BALLOT WITH JUST THE NON-PERSON CANDIDATES AND THE SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES. SO ITS IMPORTTAN TO REMEMBER YOU KNOW THAT YOU DONT HAVE TO BE REGISTERED WITH A POLITICAL PARTY THAT ON ELECTION DAY. WE ARE ASKING BALLOTOU Y WANT NOT HOW YOUR REGISTERED TO VOTE AND MOST VOTERS ARE ACTUALLY REGISTERED AS OPTIONAL WHICH MEANS THATHE TY HAVE NOT DECLARED A POLITICAL PARTY. OK,AY SO IM WHEN YOU ASK FOR A BALLOT YOU CAN DO IT EARLY VOTING ABSENTEE VOTING OR THEYRE ON ELECTION DAY, CORRECT? THAT IS CORRECT. SO WE HAVE ABSENTEE VOTING AND YOU KNOW, WE SAW A LARGER INCREASEF O ABSENTEE VOTING THAN 2020. WE DO EXCTPE TO SEE, YOU KNOW, A LARGE NUMBER OF ABSENTEE VOTING IN 2022 NOT QUITE THE SAME NUMBERS. WE SAW IN 2020 AND THEN OF COURSE WE HAVEHE T IN-PERSON VOTING FOR TWO WEEKS FOR EARLY VOTING AND THEN ON ELECTIO DNAY, BUT YES, YOU MUST DECRELA WHICH BALLOT YOU WANT. WE ARE NOT ASKING WHICH PARTY BENGLO TO AND IN FACT ONCE THIS ELECTION IS OVER WHEN YOUET G TO THE GENERAL ELECTION, THATS WHEER YOULL SEE THE CANDIDATES THAT WON THEIR PRIMARIES ON ONE SINGLE BALLOT. 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IT IS ACTUALLY VERY EASY WAY FOR VOTERS TO VOTE WHO ARE UNABLE TO BE AT THE POLLS DURING EARLY VOTING ON OUR ELECTION DAY, BUT WHAT WE DID SEE WAS AN INCREASE IN EARLY VOTING WE WENT FROM 50% EARLY VOTE BACK IN 2018 TO 65% EARLY VOTEN I 2020. WE DO EXPECTT THA TO TREND TO CONTINUE BECSEAU EARLY VOTING IS POPULAR. ITS CONVENIENT. ITS FOR AN EXTENDED AMOUNT OF METI AND WE HAVE SEVERAL LOCATIONS OPEN ACROSS WASHINGTON COUNTY. YEAH. I' AN EARLY VOTER. SO, ALL RIGHT JENNIFER PRICE. WERE GOINGO T BE BACK WITH MORE QU

What you need to know about Arkansas' 2022 Primary Elections

Updated: 2:28 PM CST Jan 28, 2022

In 2022, Arkansans will cast their ballots to choose new local officials and representatives to congress along with a new governor and lieutenant governor.Primary ElectionsArkansas' primaries will be held in May.The Democratic and Republican Parties of Arkansas will hold primaries to select their nominees on May 24, 2022. To vote in these primaries, you need to be registered before April 24, 2022. Early voting will begin on May 9, 2022.You can vote in either the Democratic or Republican primary, not both. You will be asked to select a party ballot when you arrive at the polling place.The Libertarian Party of Arkansas will hold a convention in early 2022 to select its nominee.Independent candidates are not running with a party and are not subject to primaries or conventions.Big RacesSeveral candidates are running to replace Asa Hutchinson as governor of Arkansas. Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the only declared candidate on the Republican side, but several other candidates have announced. Follow this link to learn about the candidates for governor.The situation is reversed in the race for lieutenant governor. Six Republicans but only one Democrat, Kelly Krout, is running.General ElectionTo vote in the general election, you must be registered by Oct. 10, 2022.Voting begins Oct. 24, 2022, and lasts through Election Day on Nov. 8, 2022.If runoffs are needed, they will be held in December.

In 2022, Arkansans will cast their ballots to choose new local officials and representatives to congress along with a new governor and lieutenant governor.

Arkansas' primaries will be held in May.

The Democratic and Republican Parties of Arkansas will hold primaries to select their nominees on May 24, 2022. To vote in these primaries, you need to be registered before April 24, 2022. Early voting will begin on May 9, 2022.

You can vote in either the Democratic or Republican primary, not both. You will be asked to select a party ballot when you arrive at the polling place.

The Libertarian Party of Arkansas will hold a convention in early 2022 to select its nominee.

Independent candidates are not running with a party and are not subject to primaries or conventions.

Several candidates are running to replace Asa Hutchinson as governor of Arkansas. Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the only declared candidate on the Republican side, but several other candidates have announced.

Follow this link to learn about the candidates for governor.

The situation is reversed in the race for lieutenant governor. Six Republicans but only one Democrat, Kelly Krout, is running.

To vote in the general election, you must be registered by Oct. 10, 2022.

Voting begins Oct. 24, 2022, and lasts through Election Day on Nov. 8, 2022.

If runoffs are needed, they will be held in December.

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