One question is playing out in courtrooms, on ballots, and in legislatures across the country: who controls primary elections, the parties or the voters. Only SCOTUS can settle it, and when it does, it will put both parties on one side and the voters on the other.
Young Turks host Ana Kasparian delivered a sharp critique of California Governor Gavin Newsom's handling of prisons and crime policy, arguing his prison closures have backfired and undermine public safety.
If Kiley wins in the newly-drawn CA-6, a district drawn to create a safely Democratic seat, the only independent in the House will have proven that the label can beat the gerrymander that created it.
The effort to repeal California’s Top Two primary would erase the constitutional guarantee that “all voters may vote,” sidelining more than 6 million independents as reformers push for a Top Four or Top Five alternative.
A little-noticed regulatory change creates a new process for reconsidering some of California's longest criminal sentences. Now, victims' advocates are preparing for what could become one of the state's biggest legal battles in years.
A California court’s ranked choice voting remedy is about Latino representation. But it also reflects a larger reality: election systems built around narrow political coalitions routinely leave independent voters outside the room.
Undoing Top Two means telling 6.9 million independent voters they may no longer participate in primary elections unless they sign up with a club they have already decided not to join.
California voters did exactly what voters tend to do: they evaluated the candidates, coalesced around viable contenders, and produced a result broadly reflective of the state's electorate.
California has developed a reputation for taking as long as a month to fully count its ballots. The question many have is, why? Here is what voters need to know.
Chad Peace
Cara Brown McCormick
Matt Shinners
Shawn Griffiths
Dan Schnur
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