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Your District’s Party Registration

No “party time” puns, I promise. The law requires the Secretary of State to release registration numbers as of 154 days before statewide elections. She released them today. You can read in all the other news reports about how many Republicans there are, how many decline-to-state voters, yaddah, yaddah. But what you won’t hear from [...]

State Senate Maps Supremely Validated

The California Supreme Court confirmed that this year’s elections will make use of the maps drawn by the citizens redistricting commission. Today’s decision is here. A group called Fairness and Accountability in Redistricting (or FAIR, which is good thinking on someone’s part), requested that the Court — just for the 2012 election — either retain [...]

Democracy in Any Language

The US Census Bureau released the list of counties that need to provide election materials in other languages. Here’s the rundown.

California Counted

37,253,956 people can’t be wrong: California is the place to be!

CA Counties Ensure Democracy is Alive and Well

The Secretary of State’s Office has certified the November 2 General Election and reports that the 59.6 percent turnout was the highest for a gubernatorial election since 1994.