Flo Hodes is doing everything she can to avoid post-Election Day BS. A Democratic voter living in Oakland, she has watched with mounting concern President Donald Trump’s refusal to say whether he will abide by the reported election results, his continued efforts to undermine public confidence in voting by mail, and recent...
Opinion: Why Sikhs Should Vote for Biden
Every week for the past several months, my mother and father prepared and donated 100 meals for their local food bank in San Antonio. As time passed and people learned about their efforts, their personal initiative turned into a small operation, bringing in food donations from all over the city....
Many Thorny Global Situations Hinge on US Election Outcome
LONDON — Four years after Donald Trump’s election reframed how many nations interacted with the United States, the way that the world’s foremost superpower moves forward after its presidential election stands to impact many geopolitical pressure points — whether the victor turns out to be Trump or his Democratic challenger,...
Becerra Wants State GOP to Turn Over Private Ballot Box User Names
SACRAMENTO — California's Democratic attorney general asked a judge Tuesday to make the state Republican Party hand over the names and contact information of every person who used one of the GOP's unofficial ballot drop boxes to vote. State officials had ordered the party last week to remove every unofficial...
Prop. 20: Should California’s DNA Bank Expand to Shoplifters, Opioid Offenders?
DNA evidence — a speckle of spit or a drop of blood — can exonerate a suspect or help put them behind bars. Now California voters are being asked to expand the pool of DNA data that law enforcement taps into. A little-noticed provision of Proposition 20 would require law enforcement to...
Avalanche of Early Votes Is Transforming the 2020 Election
More than 17 million Americans have already cast ballots in the 2020 election, a record-shattering avalanche of early votes driven both by Democratic enthusiasm and a pandemic that has transformed the way the nation votes. The total represents 12% of all the votes cast in the 2016 presidential election, even as...
Catalog of Polling Failure Includes Epic Miscalls and Unforeseen Landslides
The question looms in nearly every U.S. presidential election, even in this year’s race: Could the polls be wrong? If they are, they likely will err in unique fashion. The history of election polling says as much. That history tells of no greater polling surprise than what happened in 1948,...
After Outcry, Police Reviewer Answers Council on Delayed Report
Fresno police auditor John Gliatta received praise and understanding during a hearing at Thursday's city council meeting. The council called Gliatta in for a workshop after controversy erupted over the delayed release of a report from his office on a police brutality claim. Last month, Gliatta told the Fresno Commission...
Biden Out-Raises Trump $383m to $248m in September
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was out-raised by Democrat Joe Biden in September and is being outgunned financially by his rival with just weeks to go until Election Day. Trump's campaign, along with the Republican National Committee and associated groups, raised $247.8 million in September, well short of the $383...
Trump, Biden Go at It — From a Distance — in Town Halls
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden squared off, in a way, in dueling televised town halls that showcased striking differences in temperament, views on racial justice and approaches to a pandemic that has reshaped the nation. Coming just two and a half weeks before Election Day, the...