Politics
Secrets, and seals of approval, in the California governor’s race
Voters won't see the questionnaires candidates answer when they seek endorsements from special interests.
California Elections
Elections
Facebook to stop spending money against California privacy measure
As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrapped up a second day being grilled by Congress about whether the company adequately protects the personal data of its 2 billion users, news broke in California that Facebook will stop spending money to oppose a privacy measure aiming for the state’s November ballot. Facebook is one of five tech […]
Elections
Goodbye, neighborhood polling places—5 counties switch to mega-vote centers
This election season five California counties are doing away with hundreds of neighborhood polling places and replacing them with fewer “one-stop vote centers”—an experiment sold by Democrats as a way to save money and boost anemic voter turnout from the last mid-term elections. The 2016 Voter’s Choice Act establishes the vote centers in Madera, Napa, […]