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2022 Nevada Elections
The 2022 Nevada state elections took place on November 8, 2022. On that date, the State of Nevada held elections for the following offices: Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Controller, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, Nevada Senate, Nevada Assembly, and various others. In addition, several measures were on the ballot. United States Senate Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto was re-elected to a second term by a very narrow margin over Republican challenger Adam Laxalt. United States House of Representatives All of Nevada's four seats in the United States House of Representatives are up for election in 2022. Governor Incumbent Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak ran for a second term. He was defeated by Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo. Lieutenant Governor Incumbent Democratic Lieutenant Governor Lisa Cano Burkhead sought a first full term. She was defeated by Las Vegas City Council member St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor Of Nevada
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political region or polity, a ''governor'' may be either appointed or elected, and the governor's powers can vary significantly, depending on the public laws in place locally. The adjective pertaining to a governor is gubernatorial, from the Latin root ''gubernare''. Ancient empires Pre-Roman empires Though the legal and administrative framework of provinces, each administrated by a governor, was created by the Romans, the term ''governor'' has been a convenient term for historians to describe similar systems in antiquity. Indeed, many regions of the pre-Roman antiquity were ultimately replaced by Roman 'standardized' provincial governments after their conquest by Rome. Plato used the metaphor of turning the Ship of State with a rudder; the Latin w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Cano Burkhead
Lisa Cano Burkhead (born 1970/1971) is an American educator and politician serving as the 36th lieutenant governor of Nevada. She was nominated by Governor Steve Sisolak to replace Kate Marshall in December 2021. Prior to serving as lieutenant governor, Cano Burkhead was a teacher and principal in Clark County, Nevada schools. She ran for a full term but was defeated by Stavros Anthony, a member of the Las Vegas city council. Early life and education Cano Burkhead was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her father was from Argentina and her mother was from Paraguay. She received her teaching degree and a dual degree in Spanish and English from the University of Redlands. Career Cano Burkhead worked as an educator since 1996, when she began as a Spanish and English teacher in Clark County. She was the dean of students and assistant principal at Eldorado High School. She was chief of staff to Richard A. Carranza, Nevada's northwest region superintendent before becoming principal of Fertitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Center Square
The Center Square, formerly Watchdog.org, is an American news website that features reporting on state and local government from a conservative perspective. It is a project of the Franklin News Foundation, an online news organization. The Center Square distributes its content through a newswire service. The website broke the story of the phantom congressional districts in the wake of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Overview The Center Square says that it seeks to "fulfill the need for high-quality statehouse and statewide news across the United States. The focus of our work is state- and local-level government and economic reporting." The Center Square's content reflects a focus on government waste and public employee unions. ''Columbia Journalism Review'' said the productivity of the website was "impressive," and noted the commitment to original news reporting, as opposed to news aggregation or punditry. The Center Square is a project of the 501(c)(3) nonprofi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranked-choice Voting In The United States
Ranked-choice voting (RCV) is a ranked voting system used in some states and cities in the United States in which voters may prioritize (rank) their choice of candidates among many, and a procedure exists to count lower ranked candidates if and after higher ranked candidates have been eliminated, usually in a succession of counting rounds. In practice, there are several ways this can be implemented and variations exist; instant-runoff voting (IRV) and single transferable vote (STV) are the general types of ranked-choice voting systems used in the United States. Ranked-choice voting is used for state primary, congressional, and presidential elections in Alaska and Maine and for local elections in more than 20 US cities including Cambridge, Massachusetts; San Francisco, California; Oakland, California; Berkeley, California; San Leandro, California; Takoma Park, Maryland; St. Paul, Minnesota; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Portland, Maine; Las Cruces, New Mexico; and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nonpartisan Blanket Primary
A nonpartisan blanket primary is a primary election in which all candidates for the same elected office run against each other at once, regardless of the political party. Partisan elections are, on the other hand, segregated by political party. Nonpartisan blanket primaries are slightly different from most other elections systems with two-rounds/runoff, aka "jungle primaries" (such as the (Louisiana primary), in a few ways. The first round of a nonpartisan blanket primary is officially the " primary." Round two is the "general election." Round two ''must'' be held, even if one candidate receives a majority in the first round. In addition, there is no separate party nomination process for candidates before the first round. Also, political parties are not allowed to whittle down the field using their internal techniques (such as party primaries or conventions). It is entirely possible that multiple candidates of the ''same'' political party advance to the general election. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Equal Rights Amendments
States have passed state equal rights amendments (ERAs) to their constitutions that provide various degrees of legal protection against discrimination based on sex. With some mirroring the broad language and guarantees of the proposed Federal Equal Rights Amendment, others more closely resemble the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The standard of review that a court applies in evaluating a discriminatory claim mandates the level of protection guaranteed, ranging from the most rigorous strict scrutiny, intermediate standard or the least-stringent rational basis review. Courts reflect on the unique legislative history and development, intent, status of public policy and related precedent in deciding the scope of legal safeguards afforded to sex discrimination, resulting in differences between state and federal jurisprudence. A Supreme Court decision found that sex discrimination claims under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause are reviewed unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Fiore
Michele Ann Fiore (born July 29, 1970) is an American Republican politician serving as a justice of the peace for Nye County since being appointed to the position by the Nye County Commission in December 2022. She moved to Nye County in November 2022 after losing the race for Nevada State Treasurer in the 2022 election. She was a member of the Nevada Assembly from 2012 to 2016. Fiore, who represented much of northwestern Clark County, served two Assembly terms. On December 7, 2015, she confirmed that she would not seek reelection, and would instead enter the 2016 race for Nevada's 3rd congressional district in southern Clark County. On June 15, 2016, Fiore placed third in the primary, with 18% of the vote. She was elected to the Las Vegas City Council in 2017 and represented Ward 6. Fiore has been a high-profile supporter of anti-government activist Cliven Bundy, and has called Donald Trump "one of our greatest presidents". She announced on October 19, 2021, that she was runnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zach Conine
Zachary Beare Conine (born October 20, 1981) is an American attorney, businessman and politician from the U.S. state of Nevada. He is currently the Nevada State Treasurer. Biography Conine was raised in New York. He graduated from Cornell University in 2003 and then moved to Nevada. He worked in Bullhead City, Arizona, and Laughlin, Nevada. While working full-time, he attented the William S. Boyd School of Law, graduating in 2013. He opened his own business consulting company in Las Vegas in 2014. Conine ran for the District 34 seat in the Nevada Assembly in the 2016 elections, but lost in the Democratic Party primary election to Shannon Bilbray-Axelrod. In the 2018 elections, he ran for Nevada State Treasurer, and defeated Republican Bob Beers. Following the Robb Elementary School shooting in 2022, Conine announced that Nevada would divest itself from $89 million in investments in firearms manufacturers. Conine ran for reelection in 2022. He defeated Michele Fiore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Marchant
James Carl Marchant Jr. (born May 28, 1956) is an American politician in Nevada. A member of the Republican Party, he represented the 37th district in the Nevada Assembly, covering parts of the northwestern Las Vegas Valley, from 2016 to 2018. A staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, Marchant was the Republican nominee for Nevada's 4th congressional district in 2020 and for Secretary of State of Nevada in 2022. In 2020, Marchant lost his U.S. House election to Democrat Steven Horsford, while Trump lost his reelection bid in the concurrent presidential race. In the aftermath of the election, Marchant became a staunch proponent of the disproven conspiracy theory that the election was "stolen" from Republicans through mass voter fraud. He sued to have his own defeat overturned, and became actively involved in numerous unsuccessful efforts to send alternate electors to Washington and overturn the presidential election. Marchant subsequently announced his candidacy fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cisco Aguilar
Francisco Aguilar is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he has served as the Secretary of State of Nevada since 2023. He was elected in 2022, defeating Republican Jim Marchant. Early life and education Born to a family of Mexican descent, Aguilar is named after his maternal grandfather Francisco, a miners' union leader in Arizona. Aguilar earned his Bachelor of Arts, Master of Business Administration, and Juris Doctor from the University of Arizona. Career A lawyer, he worked as a law clerk for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Aguilar served for eight years on the Nevada State Athletic Commission, including two years as chairman. He also served as special counsel to James E. Rogers, chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education. He also led Agassi Graf, a management company for tennis stars Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf. Aguilar is a member of the Board of Directors for the Las Vegas Bowl, Sletten Construction Company, the Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Reid
Harry Mason Reid Jr. (; December 2, 1939 – December 28, 2021) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Nevada from 1987 to 2017. He led the Senate Democratic Caucus from 2005 to 2017 and was the Senate Majority Leader from 2007 to 2015. After earning an undergraduate degree from Utah State University and a law degree from George Washington University, Reid began his public career as the city attorney for Henderson, Nevada, before being elected to the Nevada Assembly in 1968. Gubernatorial candidate Mike O'Callaghan, Reid's former boxing coach, chose Reid as his running mate in 1970; following their victory Reid served as the 25th lieutenant governor of Nevada from 1971 to 1975. After being defeated in races for the United States Senate and mayor of Las Vegas, Reid served as chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission from 1977 to 1981. From 1983 to 1987, Reid represented Nevada's 1st district in the United States House of Representa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Cegavske
Barbara Katherine Cegavske (née Jewson; born August 27, 1951) is an American businesswoman and politician, who is the former Secretary of State of Nevada from 2015 to 2023. She was a Republican member of the Nevada Senate, representing Clark County District 8map from 2002 to 2014. Previously, she served in the Nevada Assembly from 1996 to 2001. According to her legislative biography, she was educated at Mayo High School in Rochester, Minnesota, and at Clark County Community College (now known as the College of Southern Nevada) in Las Vegas. With her husband, Tim, she was a 7-11 convenience store franchisee for thirteen years before seeking political office. Cegavske is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), serving as Nevada state leader in 2012. Cegavske successfully ran for the office of Secretary of State of Nevada in 2014, defeating Democratic state treasurer Kate Marshall. Cegavske supports voter ID laws and opposes same-day voter registration. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
