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  By: Leila Campbell, Mason Votes Contributor This article was originally written as a classroom assignment for COMM 374: Political Journalism and submitted to Mason Votes by the student author for publication. North Carolina is once again at the center of the battle for Senate control, with former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper facing former national...

By: Ben Keane, Mason Votes Contributor This article was originally written as a classroom assignment for COMM 374: Political Journalism and submitted to Mason Votes by the student author for publication. South Carolina, a state that has not had a Democratic Senator since 2005, is shaping up as an early test of the political durability...

Get Educated and Make an Informed Decision! By: Kyler Cartmill, Mason Votes Contributor On (or before) Tuesday, November 3rd, voters across Virginia will determine the future of the state by voting in the 2026 midterm elections. While questions on the ballot range from congressional representation to local tax policy, there are also three proposed amendments...

Eight Races to Determine Control of the Upper Chamber By: Andrew Nick, Mason Votes Contributor Control of both chambers of Congress is on the ballot in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, with all 435 House of Representatives seats and 35 Senate seats up for grabs on November 3rd. With just one week to go, many...

Educate, Register, Activate! By: Breeze Lawless, Mason Votes Contributor The Mason Voting Ambassadors (MVAs) is a nonpartisan student and faculty organization focused on voter registration and education. The organization is headed by Associate Professor of Political Science Dr. Jennifer Victor and filled with undergraduates with a passion for suffrage. “The role of a student as...

“Be Someone Who Shows Up!” By: Charisma Kerns, Mason Votes Contributor Founded in 1920, the League of Women Voters (LWV) is an nonpartisan “grassroots organization” that believes in the right to vote, no matter your race, gender, sexuality, or views. They encourage people to be a part of the democracy that makes up our country...

Mason Voters Share Top Concerns By: Tiffany Boggs, Mason Votes Contributor Student Media conducted an exit poll survey of student and community voters outside the on-campus polling site at Merten Hall on Election Day in 2025 to better understand which issues most influenced their choices. About 93.1% of respondents voted for then-candidate Abigail Spanberger (D),...

Vote Early in Virginia Until October 31st By: Rithvik Hari, Mason Votes Contributor You don’t have to wait until Nov. 3 to vote. Early in-person voting has been open in Fairfax since September 18th and will remain open until October 31st. Each year, more and more Fairfax voters take advantage of early voting. In the...

SCOTUS Blocks New Restrictions for 2026 Elections By: Andrew Nick, Mason Votes Contributor There’s been a lot of confusion lately about mail-in ballots, but voters planning to utilize this popular method can take comfort in the Supreme Court’s September 14th order that declined to allow a new rule designed to limit mail-in ballot delivery by...

Three Options for Fairfax Voters By: Tiffany Boggs, Mason Votes Contributor With the 2026 midterm elections less than 40 days away, voters in Virginia’s 11th Congressional District face a choice between three candidates to represent them for the next two years in the U.S. House of Representatives. Nicknamed “the people’s house,” the U.S. House of...

If You Live On Campus in Fairfax, You Can Vote @ Merten Hall! By: Erica Munisar, Mason Votes Contributor Mason students living on the Fairfax campus, including Masonvale and Presidents Park, can register to vote on campus at Merten Hall on Election Day, Tuesday, November 3rd from 6am to 7pm (anyone still in line at...

Are YOU Registered to VOTE? By: Breeze Lawless, Mason Votes Contributor In honor of National Voter Registration Day and Disability Voting Rights Week, student organizations and community volunteers worked together to hold a voter registration drive outside the Johnson Center on Tuesday, September 15th that featured on-site registration opportunities and resources to educate student voters...

VA Senate Candidates Offer Competing Visions for the Commonwealth By: Tiffany Boggs, Mason Votes Contributor With the 2026 midterm elections less than 50 days away, Virginians prepare to head to the polls to decide who will represent the Commonwealth in the United States Senate. Nicknamed “the world’s greatest deliberative body,” the U.S. Senate plays an...

25 Years Later, 9/11 Brings the Mason Community Together in Service By: Tiffany Boggs, Mason Votes Contributor On September 11, 2001, America changed forever. Twenty‑five years ago, the United States endured one of the most devastating terrorist attacks in our history, cutting short thousands of innocent lives. Many students and young Americans of today were...

Insights from Professor Jennifer Victor Shed Light on the Shifting Landscape of Democracy at Mason By: Saahiti Kiran Chamala, Mason Votes Managing Editor On Tuesday, November 11th, Mason Votes sat down with Professor Jennifer Nicoll Victor, associate professor of political science in the Schar School, to explore the implications of Virginia’s recent gubernatorial election for...

Democracy Lab’s Election Night Watch Party By: Rithvik Hari, Mason Votes Contributor As polls closed on Tuesday, November 4th, the Schar School of Policy and Government’s First-Year and Upper Level Democracy Lab students gathered for a watch party to see the outcomes of each of the elections across the country. With pizza and drinks provided,...

On-Campus Voters Make Their Voices Heard in Off-Year Election Photos/Video by: Joylin Ting, Mason Votes Contributor   The Mason community turned out to Merten Hall on Tuesday, November 4, 2025 to cast their ballots for Virginia’s next governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and more during an off-year election. Merten Hall is the home of Fairfax’s...

510 In-Person Votes Cast on Election Day and 26.25% Overall Voter Turnout Reported at Fairfax’s University Precinct Student Media conducted exit polling outside Merten Hall on November 4th to learn more about what issues and candidates were motivating student voters in 2025. Voters were asked to complete an anonymous exit survey after voting at Mason’s...