TRUMP DID NOT PARDON COUNCIL PRESIDENT CARAVIELLO AND VICE PRESIDENT KNIGHT

 WHAT IF MEDFORD HAD TO REPLACE A CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT IMMEDIATELY IF THEY DIDN'T GET A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON? 

 Debate over special elections heated — and complicated » Commonwealth Magazine WITH THE SUDDEN EXIT of the mayor of Lawrence and imminent expected departure of Boston’s mayor, officials in both communities have scrambled to head off special elections that are called for in their city charters and instead have a new mayor chosen in the regularly scheduled municipal election in November. They have cited everything from the hazards of carrying out multiple elections amid a pandemic to the lower turnout for special elections and the unfair advantage a quickly scheduled race can give to established political players.

Free and fair elections are a cornerstone of democracy. The country just experienced perhaps the most brazen effort in its history to undermine that principle with the storming of the US Capitol by an armed mob of right-wing zealots bent on reversing the results of a fairly conducted presidential election. in the…

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