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Midterm Election Voter Turnout Typically Is Low. Will This Year Be Different?

ATLANTA — Early voting is going gangbusters in Georgia in the opening days of midterm balloting, fueling a new round of partisan jousting over Republicans’ overhaul of election procedures after Democrats’ 2020 victories in the state. Through Sunday, about 838,000 Georgians had cast their ballots, most of them in person...

How California Reached Historic Voter Turnout Despite Pandemic, Distrust

Californians faced the naysayers and voted by mail in record numbers this election, potentially avoiding a pandemic super spreader event and showing the nation it could be done. CalMatters interviewed voting officials in most of the state’s 58 counties and their verdict is in: The experiment with voting by mail...

Election Math: What Dyer Needs to Win Without Run-off

There are about 80,000 ballots yet to be counted — 78,000 mail-in ballots, and 2,000 conditional registration/provisional ballots — Fresno County Elections Clerk Brandi Orth said Wednesday morning. That's after  116,867 ballots were counted Tuesday night. So where does that leave the Fresno mayoral and city council District 4 races heading...

Nunes' Reliably Red District Remains So, But Is Slipping

Republican Devin Nunes has represented the Central Valley in Congress for the last 17 years, over nine terms. And, he's running for his 10th term in 2020. Recently released voter registration figures from the Secretary of State shows that the district remains red — but less so than in the...

Madera County Voters Lead the Way Among Valley Counties

It's not clear what exactly drove California voters to mail in their ballots and show up at the polls. For Republicans, perhaps it was President Donald Trump's endorsement of John Cox and the opportunity to get a GOP candidate in the gubernatorial runoff against Democrat Gavin Newsom. Perhaps the opportunity...

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