Welcome to Brew on Monday, September 19th.
Author: Douglas Chronizel
Here’s what you need to get your day started:
- Early voting for the general election starts this week
- Watch Oregon’s Open Gubernatorial Election
- Kentucky State Supreme Court Elections for Abortion and Ballot Measures This Year
Early voting for the general election starts this week
It may feel like the primaries just ended (because they did!), but starting this week, voters across the country will begin voting in this year’s general election.
Minnesota, South Dakota and Wyoming will begin early voting on September 23rd. Begins September 24th in Vermont and Virginia.
On Sept. 29, voters in Illinois, Michigan and North Dakota will be able to go to the polls. Pennsylvania voters may be able to vote earlier this month in some counties. The exact start date will depend on when the county completes his November ballot.
Thirty-five other states will begin early voting in October, and two states, Kentucky and Oklahoma, will begin early voting in November.
Five states—Alabama, Connecticut, Mississippi, Missouri, and New Hampshire—do not offer general in-person early voting, but voters who meet certain eligibility requirements can vote early.
The average length of the early voting period is about 20 days, down from 21 days in the 2020 election cycle, but the longest is 45 days (Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming) to 2 days (Kentucky). There is width.
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Watch Oregon’s Open Gubernatorial Election
Preview some of the top races we’re watching here between now and Election Day BrewLet’s start today by looking at the Oregon gubernatorial election.
Five candidates are running for office. Gov. Kate Brown (Democrat) is one of eight governors not running for re-election this year because her term is limited.
Tina Kotek (Democrat), Kristin Drazan (Democrat) and Betsey Johnson (UK) received the most media coverage.
All three candidates were in Congress, with Kotek serving as Speaker of the House, Drazan as House Minority Leader, and Johnson as a Democratic Senator.
sabbath crystal ball‘s Kyle Kondik describes the contest as a three-way competition, “creating an insane situation where the winner doesn’t have to crack 40% of the time.”
In the past three gubernatorial elections, Democratic candidates have won by an average of 6 percent.
Two election predictors now rate the race as follows: tilt Also tilt democracy and evaluate it as toss up.
Oregon has had a Democratic governor since 1987, making him the second-longest-serving governor after Washington. The state elected only one independent governor, Julius Meyer, who from 1931 he served until 1935.
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Kentucky State Supreme Court Elections for Abortion and Ballot Measures This Year
Today is day 15 of our 50-day 50-state series, featuring the bluegrass state of Kentucky.
Week 1: Pennsylvania, Indiana, South Dakota, Nebraska, North Dakota
Week 2: California, Georgia, Texas, Montana
Week 3: North Carolina, Virginia, New Mexico, Illinois, Idaho
About voting in Kentucky
At the federal level, Kentuckians elect one senator and six representatives.
Kentucky is not holding state executive elections this year. These positions he expects to be voted for in 2023.
At the legislative level, all 100 seats in the state House of Representatives and 19 of the 38 state Senate seats
I am voting.
Four of the seven seats on the Kentucky Supreme Court and 14 seats on the Kentucky Court of Appeals are up for election. All of these races are contested nonpartisan elections.
It also covers local elections in Lexington and Louisville, including positions such as mayor, county attorney, and district judge. Public schools in Fayette and Jefferson counties are also participating in the vote.
Click here for more information on this year’s Kentucky races.
Reorganization of highlights
Kentucky’s number of congressional districts remained at six after the 2020 Census.
Legislative and state legislative elections will be held under the new district line following the census. With our side-by-side map comparison tool, you can quickly see how your state will be zoned. Below is an example of a Kentucky State Senate map before and after the 2020 Census.
Visit the Kentucky Reorganization page to work with the Capitol and State Legislative Map Comparison Tool. here.
partisan balance
- US Senators from Kentucky, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, are both Republicans, and Paul got on the ballot this year.
- Kentucky has one Democrat and five Republicans.
- Kentucky has a Democratic governor since 2019.
- Republicans hold a 30-8 majority in the state Senate and a 75-25 majority in the state House of Representatives.
- Kentucky, with a Democratic governor and a Republican majority in both legislatures, is one of 13 states that have not retained three states in state government since 1995.
- While a Democrat serves as governor, Kentucky’s Attorney General and Secretary of State are Republicans, making it one of nine states without three state governments.
a seat contested by only one major party
In 2022, Kentucky’s 63 state seats, or 53% of all seats running for election, will have no major party competition. If her only one candidate of any major party runs for a seat in the state legislature, the seat is almost guaranteed to be won by that party.
Democrats are competing for 68 seats in the general election. Fifty-one seats (43%) are devoid of Democratic candidates, so the Republicans are likely to win.
Republicans are running for 107 seats. Twelve seats (10%) do not include a Republican candidate, which is likely to be won by a Democrat.
main race
- Kentucky Supreme Court: 4 seats are running.The judges are officially nonpartisan, but a 2020 state court partisanship survey found that the confidence scores of his two judges running for election were mild democratand the two scores are Indefinite2 out of 3 people not voting mild republican And one joined the court after our analysis.
- In one race in particular, Judge Michelle Keller mild democrat Scores will face Joseph Fisher, a Republican in the state House of Representatives. Fisher drafted the Kentucky law restricting post-conception abortion and supported the 2nd Amendment (see below).
ballot measure
There are two bills on the ballot this year.
- of No abortion rights in constitutional amendments Amending state constitutions to say nothing creates abortion rights or requires government funding for abortions. Four of her states—Tennessee, Alabama, West Virginia, and Louisiana—voted similar language. Dobbs control. Kansas rejected a similar amendment earlier this year following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
- of Legislative session end date change and special session amendment Removes specific legislative session end dates from the Constitution, allowing legislators to set their own end dates and convene special sessions.
Between 1985 and 2020, 24 bills were put on statewide ballots in Kentucky. 17 (71%) were approved and 7 (29%) were rejected.
vote
- Voting is open from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. local time.
- Kentucky requires ID to vote. Click here for the types of identification we accept.
- Early voting begins on November 3rd and ends on November 5th.
- Kentucky allows absentee/mail-in ballots, but only if the voter meets certain requirements listed here. The deadline to claim his ballot is Oct. 25, and the ballot must be returned to election officials by Nov. 8.
- The voter registration deadline is October 11th. Registration can be done in person, by mail, or online using a postmarked mailing form.
Want to know more about which elections to vote for this year? Click here to use our sample poll search tool.
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