The Orange County-based effort to recall Assemblyman Anthony Adams, R-Hesperia, may sue elections officials with the hope of getting their invalidated recall on the ballot.
The group has been comparing rejected petition signatures against voter registration lists and has found some that they believe should have been counted, according to Corona [...]
Health care polls keep getting uglier, and Republicans are salivating over the 2010 elections. For those doubting this month's Quinnipiac poll showing 53 - 38 disapproval of the health care...
The voters in the City of Los Angeles Council District 2 head to the polls today to decide in the runoff between State Assemblyman Paul Krekorian (D-Burbank, District 43) and former Paramount Pictures CEO Christine Essel.
The preliminary election results are from the City of Los Angeles Elections Division:
(Absentee Voters)
Paul Krekorian 6,373 [...]
? The Secretary of State's office has approved Alameda County's ranked choice voting system, so it will go into effect for next year's elections. That will likely include the evenutal election of Ron Dellums' successor.
? It's telcos v consumer groups on the confirmation to' [...]
California voters will consider a measure next June to create a system of public financing for Secretary of State races. There seems to be no shortage of reasons why voters would be concerned about the role of large private contributions in our elections system. Tidbits include a sitting Assemblymember and [...]
The status of the 2010 Congressional elections in California’s 3rd district (currently represented by Republican Dan Lungren) and 50th district (currently represented by Republican Brian Bilbray) have changed since our post last month about potentially competitive Congressional elections in California in 2010. A Democratic challenger has dropped out of [...]
A number of landmarks were reached in council rotations this week. Perhaps the most notable was in the Bay Area city of Campbell, in which Councilman Evan Low, 26, was rotated into the mayor's seat, thereby becoming the nation's youngest openly gay, and youngest Asian, mayor. Read more in the [...]
Amends constitution to hold candidates for public office, government officials and employees, and members of the media criminally liable for intentionally making a false statement of "material fact" about legislative acts, elections for public office, or' [...]
This just in from the Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s office – a new proposed ballot measure cleared to start gathering petition signatures:
CRIMINALIZES FALSE STATEMENTS ABOUT LEGISLATIVE ACTS, ELECTIONS, OR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Amends constitution to hold candidates for public office, government officials and employees, and members [...]
With this column in Monday’s paper, I caught up with the activities of the Orange County-based effort to recall Assemblyman Anthony Adams, R-Hesperia. In a nutshell, they submitted their petition signatures, elections officials said their sample showed too many invalid signatures and not enough good ones, and then recall [...]
Tuesday’s dismal turnout at the polls added fuel to the call to do away with polling places and conduct elections entirely by mail, as is done in Oregon, two small California counties and at least one California city.
Just 9,172 - 4 percent - of the 72nd Assembly District’s voters went [...]
The Washington D.C. City Council is poised to slap same-sex marriage (SSM) on the table in our nation's capital, whether the citizens want it or not. And now, to add insult to penury, the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics [sic] has made its own contribution to democracy... [...]
The news is not good for President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats on the political front. Obama's popularity has dropped below 50% in public opinion polls and independents, who often provide the margin of victory in national elections, aren't backing Democratic policies.
That suggests big problems for Democrats in next year's [...]
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