In the United States, many of the buildings in state capital cities which house local legislatures have been placed under heavy guard as authorities move to head off potential violence.
manich@leaderherald.com
JOHNSTOWN Area elections officials say registered voters switch parties on a regular basis. But with the recent contentious presidential election, and divided political loyalties, many people in both Fulton and Montgomery counties have switched parties in noticeable numbers.
An analysis of election data finds it hard to discern why people switched, but in Fulton County, the big winner has been the Republican Party.
After the Nov. 3 presidential election, New York state did what might be referred to as a “purge” of some of the smaller parties. Because not enough people voted from those parties, the state told boards of elections to contact people in those parties and inform then that they could switch to another party, but they couldn’t vote in a future primary for the current party they were in. In Montgomery County, letters had to be sent out to about 3,000 voters in that category. Fulton County sent out 1,928 letters to registered voters in smalle
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) A day after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, which cost one Trump supporter her life, prominent Black leaders in Philadelphia are ringing the alarm on white supremacy and the country s double standard. We all know had that been Black protestors and people even handling their business, we would be sitting here with so many deaths today, so many injuries, President of Urban League of Philadelphia Andrea Custis said.
There s a big difference from the look of Washington, D.C. before a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest this summer.
Even those on the opposite side of the political spectrum, like Republican Congressman Conor Lamb, called out the stark contrast to yesterday s riots.