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A judge in California today ruled that John Eastman, former President Donald Trump’s attorney in 2020 and the chief architect of the insurrection on the Capitol, should be disbarred for his involvement in Trump’s coordinated attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Voters in Huntington Beach, California — the seaside city south of Los Angeles — voted for a ballot initiative allowing city officials to require all residents who want to cast a ballot in municipal elections to show a valid ID.
Shasta County, California took the first steps on Monday toward hand counting ballots cast in the 2024 election.
Voters in the coastal California city of Huntington Beach don’t need to present an ID when voting in municipal elections, but that could change depending on the outcome of a charter amendment on the ballot in the city’s primary election in March.
After nearly a year of controversy and consternation in northern California’s hyper-conservative Shasta County, California, Shasta County Clerk and Registrar of Voters Cathy Darling Allen confirmed yesterday that the county will not hand count this election’s ballots.
Last Friday, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber (D) issued a warning to the Shasta County Board of Supervisors regarding their purported plans to hand count the results of next week’s special election.
Earlier this week, a group of nonpartisan California-based advocacy groups sent a letter to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber (D) outlining numerous concerns about the upcoming elections in Shasta County that require “urgent, decisive, and sustained response” from Weber’s office.
On Tuesday, Oct. 10, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a slate of election-related bills that implement changes such as mandating curbside voting at all in-person polling locations, improving ballot design, changing cure laws and more.
On Saturday, Oct. 7, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed three bills aimed at curbing gerrymandering in the state, while vetoing two others. One of the now-vetoed bills would have established an independent redistricting commission in Los Angeles, the most populous city in the state and the second-most populous city in the country.
Calls for hand counting ballots have continued in recent weeks in states throughout the country, with conservative activists and elected officials pushing for the complex practice despite its clear problems.