voting

Targeted outreach efforts are crucial for reaching first-time, low-propensity and limited-English speaking voters.

Voter rights groups warn that recent Postal Service changes could make it more difficult for voters to cast ballots in the mail this November. But Californians still have options.

Good morning, California. It’s Monday, August 10. Second top resignation in two months The director of California’s public health department resigned late Sunday night, less than a week after state officials reported a tech glitch that resulted in an undercount of coronavirus cases and confusion about the scope of infections as the state’s death toll […]

The 100,000-plus number of rejected mail ballots in California’s March primary is a helpful warning in a system with a few growing pains, not a sign of fraud.

California's year of pandemic, recession and civic unrest also includes angst over the outcome of the 2020 census. The state likely will lose at least one congressional seat and perhaps two.

California may claim to have all the correct policies and politicians may say all the right things about voting, but in practice we fail.

Re “Supreme Court rules members of the Electoral College must be faithful – how that affects California”; Commentary, July 7, 2020 Jessica Levinson points out many of the attributes and results that can come from the makeup of the Electoral College.  It does indeed penalize big states to a degree when it comes to the […]

Thanks to how the Electoral College is structured, Californians have much less power in electing the next president than voters in less populous states.

In the November election, California will have to meet the bipartisan demand from voters for mail ballots and redesign sites for safe, in-person voting.

Good morning, California. It’s Friday, June 26. Hospitalizations rise in southern, central CA Amid a continued surge in hospitalizations and ICU admissions, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday made public the coronavirus models California is using to inform its public health orders, calling on “citizen scientists,” “experts in artificial intelligence,” “Nobel laureates” and everyday people to […]