As residents gear up for the Nov. 8 election, some Fresno County voters have yet to receive their voter information guides. Fresno County Clerk and Registrar of Voters James Kus says some voter information guides will go out as late as Oct. 18. In addition, about 200 copies of...
Quan Gone? There’s Talk of City Manager Landing County Post.
Insiders at both Fresno City Hall and the Fresno County Hall of Records say Fresno City Manager Wilma Quan could be moving just a few blocks. Multiple sources at both houses of government say Quan is in consideration for an assistant county administrative officer position. Also in Politics 101: Big...
2020 Will Bring a Whole New Way to Vote in Fresno
Big changes are coming in 2020 to the way elections are conducted in Fresno County. On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors voted 3-1 to implement provisions of California's Voter's Choice Act which is intended to make casting a ballot more convenient. Under the new plan, every registered voter in the county...
Cutting Through the Fake News About ‘Ballot Harvesting’
As the chair of the California Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments, I am both disheartened and angry at President Trump’s ongoing lies about the nonexistent, massive voter fraud he claims to have occurred in California. I am equally frustrated to hear pundits and partisans depicting efforts to eliminate...
Going, Going, Gone? Democrat Cox Now Leads Valadao.
Nearly three weeks after election night, Rep. David Valadao (R-Hanford) now trails Democratic challenger TJ Cox for California's 21st district seat in Washington. Despite trailing by nearly 8 percentage points after the returns reported on Nov. 6, Cox took over the lead Monday as the vote-by-mail and provisional ballots continued to break...
When to Expect Fresno County Election Results Tonight
Fresno County Clerk Brandi Orth says first results should be available at 8:05 p.m., five minutes after polls close in Fresno and across California. Through Monday (Nov. 5), her office had received 92,607 vote by mail ballots. Those will be the first ones tallied. GV Wire will post results from...
New California Law Requires Free Postage For Mail Ballots
SACRAMENTO — California is requiring counties to provide free postage for vote-by-mail ballots statewide. Gov. Jerry Brown announced Wednesday that he signed the bill requiring that return ballot envelopes have prepaid postage beginning in 2019. 10 Counties Will Pay Postage for November Ballot Currently, 10 of the state's 58 counties...
Democrats Dominate Early Fresno District 7 Voting
Veva Islas, one of three candidates vying for the Fresno City Council District 7 seat, sent out a campaign email Wednesday morning stating that "Democratic mail ballots in District 7 so far are outnumbering those of Republicans by almost 3 to 1!" As the race, which is officially nonpartisan, involves...