California Elections

The California Supreme Court ruled Sheriff Chad Bianco violated the state's election law when his office seized ballots from the Riverside County registrar. The ruling comes six weeks before the November midterm election that will determine who controls Congress in President Trump’s final two years in office.

California voters will soon decide whether to tax billionaires — but even if a majority says yes, the measure could still lose to either of two billionaire-funded measures designed to cancel it out.  The billionaire-backed group Building a Better California designed two countermeasures to undermine the wealth tax and create multiple ways to defeat it. […]

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required more polluting facilities built near homes and schools to undergo environmental review — a decision that keeps in place looser rules he championed to speed up development in California. The bill authored by Sen. Catherine Blakespear, a Democrat from Encinitas, responded to fears raised by […]

California's top-two primary allows every voice to be heard at the ballot box. The unpredictable gubernatorial primary this year isn't a good enough reason to scrap it.

In one of California’s newly created congressional districts, candidates diverge sharply on healthcare issues, but most voters agree healthcare costs too much.

Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court's decision shooting down President Trump's proposal to restrict mail-in voting just before the November midterm election.

The Supreme Court is weighing President Trump’s plan to limit universal mail-in voting with just seven weeks until the November election. California officials are urging people to vote early.

California announced a new lawsuit over President Trump's executive order on mail-in voting, arguing in part that the Constitution gives states' power over elections.

California's slow vote counts are a policy problem, argues the Republican candidate for state elections chief. Three changes could made a concrete difference, he says.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco was at the California Supreme Court Monday as his attorney argued he acted within his authority in seizing 650,000 ballots.