By Steven Allen Adams | West Virginia Watchdog
CHARLESTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee could move as quickly as next week on a bill designed to close a loophole allowing felons to run for public office or be appointed.
SB518 was one of 14 bills introduced in the West Virginia Senate today. The bill would close a [...]

By Steven Allen Adams | West Virginia Watchdog
CHARLESTON — The poll for West Virginia 2011 special election closed 15 minutes ago. Turnout reports varied across the state, from light to very good. Other than a report earlier today by the Secretary of State’s office of phone calls telling voters the wrong precincts to go to, [...]

By Steven Allen Adams
steven@westvirginiawatchdog.org

From ABC News:
A non-profit charity founded by Newt Gingrich to promote freedom, faith and free enterprise also served as another avenue to promote Gingrich’s political views, and came dangerously close, some experts say, to crossing a bright line that is supposed to separate tax-exempt charitable work from both the political process and [...]

Despite calls for an immediate special session of the West Virginia Legislature to set a date for special election to fill the remaining two years on Sen. Joe Manchin‘s term as governor, new polling data shows that likely voters are split on the issue.
According to polling data released today by Mark Blankenship Enterprises, 40 percent [...]

Watch as the folks at Reason.tv remind us that as negative as today’s campaigns have been this election season, things really haven’t changed that much from the first U.S. elections. Our Founding Fathers could be pretty slanderous. At least we don’t settle things with pistol duels anymore.

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The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a conference committee report allowing for a 2010 special election, ending days of debate on who would serve the rest of Sen. Robert Byrd‘s remaining two years in the U.S. Senate.
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In a reversal of their earlier vote, the House of Delegates reconsidered House Bill 201 and passed the bill 46-37, but the bill was not made effective from passage, meaning it doesn’t go into effect for 90 days.
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The West Virginia Legislature returns today at noon to work on fixes to the states election laws to allow for a special election to fill the remainder of the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd‘s six-year term in the U.S. Senate. West Virginia Watchdog will have continuous around-the-clock coverage of the floor sessions and the committee [...]

According to a letter released this afternoon by West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw‘s office, a special election is needed to fill the unexpired term of the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd.
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