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Rishi Shah

Special Elections

Policies such as special elections, public financing and ranked-choice voting are effective in building a representative democracy.

A perennial push to bring special elections to the Maryland General Assembly is back again in 2022. Senate Bill 73, sponsored by Sen. Clarence…

Baltimore’s 2020 mayoral election was significantly impacted by the presence of big money, and out-of-state donors flooded campaign coffers, a new study of candidate…

Most U.S. telecommunications providers were required to install caller ID verification to cut back on illegal robocalls by the end of June, but the…

Vote by Mail

Like everything else in 2020, our elections had to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure people could safely vote. The pandemic has laid…

Several Maryland political leaders, including Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) and state Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) have signed on to national…

This may belong in the “Dog Bites Man” category of news, and yet it’s startling to think about just the same. A new report…