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Michael V. Hayden Center Hosts Panel Discussion Addressing Foreign Interference By: Sudiksha Kochi, Fourth Estate Staff Writer This story was originally published on gmufourthestate.com. Fourth Estate is Mason’s official student-run newspaper. With Election Day coming up in November, voters all around the United States are casting their early ballots and, more importantly, asking the question...

Redistricting Reform on the 2020 Ballot in Virginia By: Zoe Hundertmark, Guest Contributor, COMM 145 (Newspaper Workshop I) Student Featured on the Virginia ballot for tomorrow’s general election is a proposed amendment to the state’s constitution that would create a bipartisan redistricting panel. The proposed amendment on the Virginia ballot reads as follows: Should the...

Virginia Reports 423% Increase in Early Voting By: Derek Bowers, Mason Votes 2020 Online Editorial Team One the eve of Election Day 2020, over 86 million Americans have voted early, smashing records and surpassing 2016 early voting data. As both excitement and nerves surrounding the 2020 election grow, many states throughout the country are reporting...

Disillusionment Unites Both Sides By: Safiya Khan, Mason Votes 2020 Online Editorial Team Most political observers knew that the 2020 election was going to be a contentious affair, but few were prepared for the spectacle of the first 2020 debate in Cleveland, OH that was roundly criticized as a new low for American democratic discourse....

Election 2020 Interviews with Mason Students By: Nadia Faour, Mason Votes 2020 Online Editorial Team Video edited by: Zach Hamilton

Polling Only Matters For So Long, and We’re Hitting this Cycle’s Expiration Date By: Orlando Cabrera, Mason Votes 2020 Online Editorial Team In these last four days of the Presidential campaign, things appear to favor Joe Biden in most, if not all, of the traditional swing states. Most voters have self-sorted themselves along part lines,...

Trump and Biden Offer Contrasting Prescriptions By: Nadia Faour, Mason Votes 2020 Online Editorial Team With November 3rd coming up in just 4 days, a key issue shaping voter preferences in the 2020 presidential election is immigration. President Trump and Vice President Biden have a vastly different view on immigration policy in regard to paths...

Patriots Share Why They Plan to Vote in 2020 77% of Mason’s student athletes registered to vote in 2020. We asked them why… Special thanks to Mason Athletics for their participation and to Student Media for producing this video! Video edited by: Zach Hamilton

Pizza & Perspectives: 2020 Panel Discussion On October 22, 2020, University Life SciTech hosted a virtual panel discussion featuring Delegate Karrie Delaney, Professors Jennifer Victor and Justin Gest from the Schar School of Policy and Government, and Gary Scott, Fairfax County Registrar and Director of Elections. “In this novel national and global context, our relationship with...

“Anti-Authority” Attitudes Toward Science Undermine Public Health By: Alex Russell, Mason Votes 2020 Online Editorial Team The COVID-19 pandemic, otherwise known as the coronavirus, has quickly become the dominant issue of Election 2020 and a perpetual cause of argument and tension among everyday Americans. The fight over face masks, conflicting reports from White House officials,...

So You’ve Voted… Now What? By: Jayla Brown, Mason Votes 2020 Online Editorial Team As the election draws near, Americans are voting early in record numbers. Kimberly MacVaugh (Policy and Government Librarian, Arlington Campus Library) and Christopher Lowder (Online Learning Assistant, University Libraries) co-hosted an online workshop on Thursday, October 22nd to inform Mason students...

Trump and Biden Spar for the Last Time in Nashville, TN By: Derek Bowers, Mason Votes 2020 Online Editorial Team President Trump and his challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, wrapped up the final debate of the 2020 general election season in Nashville, TN on Thursday night. Moderator Kristen Welker of NBC News, in a...