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U.S. Senator Ed Markey said he supports fining people who don't wear masks in public when required to do so by coronavirus emergency rules.
Markey made the comments Monday night during a debate with Republican challenger Kevin O'Connor hosted by WGBH, moderated by Jim Braude and Margery Eagan.
The citizens of the 33 states breathed a collective sigh of relief when the results of the 1860 presidential election were finally certified. In the third round of the new ranked-choice voting system, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois was declared election winner by tallying nearly 2.5 million total votes, more than half of which came from voters' second and third choices.
Because of the adoption of the 13th Amendment in 1859, two major changes were introduced to the presidential election process. First, the amendment eliminated the electoral college, which had been widely criticized as undemocratic by giving undue weight to the most rural, least populated states. Second, the amendment introduced ranked-choice voting, permitting each citizen to show their preferences from first to last place on the ballot.