Primaries
Consistently you see that we are highly encouraged to vote in our elections. From pre-registration signs up around your high school to consistent reminders from the politically active – the occuring elections consistently cause a big stir! The primary elections occur so there aren’t a billion people running for a certain position. For democrat or republican voters, you are only allowed to vote between people in your party. People who are classified as independents are able to choose which ballot they receive. Whoever wins the primaries will go on to be the candidate for the general elections.
The midterm elections occur every two years- however, they are different every year due to how long each person serves. In Massachusetts, Local elections occur around the same time as midterm elections – however all states just recently completed their primary elections and the Midterm Elections are occurring on November 8th – with this, many exciting things happened during the primaries.
To some surprise, Kansas Voters voted to protect against more extreme bans on abortion. Being Pro-Choice is normally a Democrat characteristic, Kansas is known to normally vote Red.
In addition to this, Alaska voted blue, filling its singulare seat in the house of Representatives with a democrat for the first time since 1972. Alaska additionally adopted a new Rank choice voting system for this year’s election, which left their Representative needing to get 50% of the vote in order to win.
