Secretary of State

While there aren’t widespread problems, officials are ramping up efforts to protect the 2022 election.

In California elections, it only takes a handful of signatures and votes for legislative write-in candidates to get on the November ballot. Eleven made it this year, though some won very little support.

A judge rules that a proposition to raise the California minimum wage to $18 an hour can't go before voters until 2024. The same judge gave backers of recalling Gov. Gavin Newsom more time to qualify, but in this case he backed the Secretary of State, who said proponents missed a key deadline to qualify in time for this November.

Secretary of State Shirley Weber must take a key step by May 7 toward approving open-source voting for California, long advocated by election security experts and election integrity activists.

The Secretary of State's office moved toward requiring election ballots and other voter information to be translated into fewer languages. Advocacy groups are alarmed and urging action in time for the June primary. On March 1, the secretary of state reversed course.

A state law that requires California companies to have women on their boards is facing a legal challenge in Los Angeles, where a trial concluded Wednesday. Since the law passed in 2018, the share of women on boards has increased from 15.5% to 29%.

Conservative talk show host Larry Elder wins his lawsuit to be a replacement candidate in the California recall. A judge rules that a tax return requirement doesn't apply to recalls.

The candidates in the California recall election were required to submit tax returns to get on the ballot. Here are some interesting takeaways.

Forty-one candidates have qualified for the recall election. Radio host Larry Elder is likely to sue to be No. 42.

Seven write-in candidates have joined 46 others who qualified to be on the ballot in California’s second recall election for governor. They include politicians, activists and others.