'Cardinals Vote!' looks to create change across campus and Indiana
By Trinity Rea / February 26, 2024The new initiative is encouraging students to vote.
The new initiative is encouraging students to vote.
Election season is in full swing as voters can cast their ballots starting Wednesday
Jeff Robinson, city council president and Democratic candidate for Muncie mayor, announced his plans for the city’s infrastructure, an issue he claimed is “one of the biggest issues on the minds of our citizens.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launched his 2024 presidential campaign on May 24 over an online conversation with Twitter CEO Elon Musk
President Joe Biden says he will seek a second term in the White House, announcing his reelection campaign in a video on Tuesday promising to finish the job if given four more years. Biden’s announcement comes four years to the day after he launched his successful campaign in 2019 against a sitting Republican president, Donald Trump, who has already announced his own reelection bid and currently leads the polls for the GOP nomination.
Ball State University’s Student Government Association held its final debate with the vice presidential nominees on Feb. 15 at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. This debate was the third of three debates and allowed for the nominees to get to speak to the public and explain their running platform points.
Ball State University’s Student Government Association (SGA) held the introduction to the tickets, the candidates, Feb. 7 at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. The two tickets are “Empower” with Presidential Nominee Skylar Ellis, in SGA’s On-Campus Caucus, and Vice Presidential Nominee Taylor Perry, in SGA’s At-Large Caucus, and "Gassensmith & Lindstrand" with Joseph Gassensmith, current chief of staff, and Monet Lindstrand, current vice president.
The Ball State Student Government hosted a nomination convention for the next president and vice president. Two executive tickets were brought to the table.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she will not seek a leadership position in the new Congress, a pivotal realignment making way for a new generation of leaders after Democrats lost control of the House to Republicans in the midterm elections.
The political science department at Ball State University, along with the Student Government Association, hosted a watch party for the 2022 midterm elections. Attendees and organizers discussed the midterm elections and their votes/beliefs.
The voting registration deadline for the 2022 midterm election was Oct. 11, but the last day to apply for an absentee ballot is Oct. 27.
Voter turnout for Delaware County in 2020 was the lowest in the state of Indiana at 58 percent. For the last midterm election in 2018, Delaware County was also among the lowest in the state for voter turnout at 47 percent.
Nov. 8 midterm Election Day is almost here. Before you go to the polls, check out what candidates in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, as well as Indiana Secretary of State race stand for.
6 p.m. Thursday, the Ball State College Democrats, Indiana Democratic Party and College Democrats of Indiana hosted three political candidates that are running in the 2022 midterm elections in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center.
Donald Trump was elected president of the United States Nov. 8. Now, get to know the new first family.
Eric Holcomb secured the gubernatorial race and Todd Young won the Indiana senate seat.
Voting third party, predictably, wasn't a popular choice for many Hoosiers. Third party candidates got around 5 percent of the vote in Indiana — nothing compared to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's high numbers.
Republican Jennifer McCormick has been elected Indiana’s state schools superintendent, defeating Democratic incumbent Glenda Ritz.
