This website showcases community sourced questions and the responses from candidates running in various levels of government in Maryland. Questions from local minority groups were divided into 7 surveys, 1 for each race, offering a platform for those candidates to share their positions on issues affecting Frederick’s marginalized populations.
Elections included in this Voters' Guide include the following:
The website’s objective is to provide the candidates' candid answers to community member questions for Maryland voters to make informed decisions on who they want to represent them in Frederick County and beyond.
The Minority Voters' Guide Frederick effort was coordinated by NAACP Frederick & Frederick for Justice in Palestine (FJP) along with other local organizations including Asbury United Methodist Church, Frederick Democratic Socialists of America, the Islamic Society of Frederick, The Democracy Action Team of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick, Frederick Housing Solutions Task Force, RISE Coalition of Western Maryland, Montgomery Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines, and Maryland CAIR. Of the organizations that we reached out to, these were the groups that agreed to sponsor and/or participate.
Tabs at the top of the website will direct you to each voter’s guide of the 7 races that MVG covered for this year’s election cycle. Responses include all candidates that were willing to partipcate and are presented in the order which they were received for each race by section.
Please note that written responses were optional and not always provided by candidates. Candidate statements provided henceforth have not been edited with the exception of typos. If you see an "N/A" (No Answer) - this indicates the candidate did not respond to the survey.
38 out of the 71 candidates running participated in our survey.