The Selma City Council unanimously approved putting Measure L before voters to approve the establishment of a licensed cardroom. The threshold for passage? 50%+1. (Late Tuesday night the measure was trailing by a significant margin with 100% of precincts reporting (though some votes remain to be counted). No 3,397 63.21% Yes...
Is It in the Cards? Selma Voters Will Decide Whether to Allow a Cardroom
The Selma City Council unanimously approved putting Measure L before voters to approve the establishment of a licensed cardroom. The threshold for passage? 50%+1. (Late Tuesday night the measure was trailing with 43.62% of the vote reported: 2,820 no votes (63.17%) 1,644 yes votes (36.83%) Supporters say the additional money generated...
Long Lines, Enthusiasm but No Major Problems as US Votes
Voters marked the end of a fraught U.S. election season at the polls Tuesday, casting the last of what will likely be a record number of ballots in the midst of a global pandemic that upended long-established election procedures, prompted an unprecedented surge in mail ballots and triggered hundreds of...
How Not to Freak Out: A User’s Guide to California’s Election Night Results
If you were looking for the best advice on how to spend the hours after the polls close on election night, here’s the best we have to offer: Go do something else. Turn off your TV, close your computer, put away your phone. Now go for a walk. Bake a...
The Latest: Judge Orders USPS to Search Centers for Ballots
WASHINGTON — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local): 2:30 p.m. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered U.S. Postal Service inspectors to sweep more than two dozen mail processing facilities for lingering mail-in ballots and for those ballots to be sent out immediately. The order, which includes centers...
Mobile Vote Center Rolls into Madera for Last Minute Balloting
After sweeping across Madera County for the past several weeks to allow in person voting, a new state of the art mobile voting center will be in the city of Madera on election night. The 'Mobile Vote Center' is just that, a vote center on wheels that, when deployed, offers...
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Quoting Trump, Mocks US Election
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's supreme leader mocked America's presidential election Tuesday in a televised address, quoting President Donald Trump's own baseless claims about voter fraud to criticize the vote as Tehran marked the 1979 U.S. Embassy hostage crisis. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reiterated a long-standing Iranian position that it didn't matter...
Walters: Incompetence Could Be GOP’s Opportunity
California’s ever-shrinking Republican Party will receive little, if any, good news from this year’s elections. The inevitable question will once again rise: Could the GOP, which once dominated the state, ever regain relevance? Probably not, but if there is any chance for revival, it wouldn’t be an ideological reversion but...
Democrats Push to Extend Control of House for Two More Years
WASHINGTON — Democrats pushed to seal control of the House for two more years Tuesday as they banked on their health care focus, dominant fundraising and broad suburban indignation with President Donald Trump to make their majority in the chamber even larger. Republicans were hoping to oust some of the 29 Democrats...
Tradition: 2 New Hampshire Towns Cast Votes After Midnight
DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. — Two tiny New Hampshire communities that vote for president just after the stroke of midnight on Election Day have cast their ballots, with one of them marking 60 years since the tradition began. The results in Dixville Notch, near the Canadian border, were a sweep for...