Tag: voting

Your Views: Interstate Compact is legal

To the editor: I wish to address technical misleading statements from a Jan. 21 letter in the Alexandria Times, “Popular Vote Interstate Compact is Unconstitutional.” It...

Your Views: Popular Vote Interstate Compact is unconstitutional

The proponents of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact say that they are supporting democracy and fairness. In fact, the result of their proposal...

Election Day 2020: Mark Warner, Don Beyer re-elected

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] The Associated Press declared Democratic nominee former Vice President Joe Biden the winner of Virginia at 7:31 p.m. on Election...

Women: A strong political force

By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller As we celebrate this centennial year of the American woman’s right to vote, we find ourselves a few short...

Early voting begins in Alexandria

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] When the door to the Alexandria Office of Voter Registration opened promptly at 8 a.m. on Sept. 18, 56 people...

Election 2018: All you need to know before heading to the...

By Mae Hunt | [email protected] After months of campaigning from mayoral candidates and council hopefuls, Alexandria voters will decide the Democratic nominees for mayor and...

Navy vet, Old Town resident announces council campaign

Matt Feely, an Old Town resident, announced his candidacy for council to the Alexandria Democratic Committee last week. Feely, a retired supply corps captain with...

Letter to the Editor: Delegate race outcomes are important

To the editor: The future of our Commonwealth, and our Virginia General Assembly, the oldest continuous legislative body in the western world, hangs in the...

Leave voting issues up to the electorate

 The obvious solution is to let the voters decide

Give the power to the people

Let City Council focus on planning and fiscal matters. Let the people figure out when to exercise their voting rights.