elections

A group of citizens in Douglas County want to put the county’s election system to a vote.

The Grants Pass mayor appears to have kept her seat after a tense recall election Tuesday night.

The California legislature passed a bill Friday that would ban hand-counting ballots in most elections. The bill was targeted directly at Shasta County in the far northern part of the state.

A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit intended to end mail voting and electronic voting tabulation in Oregon, saying “generalized grievances” about the state’s elections aren’t enough to give a group of unsuccessful Republican candidates and other election deniers standing to sue.

A decision earlier this year by Shasta County supervisors to upend their elections system has drawn the attention of California lawmakers.

The California Secretary of State is accepting public comment on proposed regulations, some of which outline the procedures to hand-count ballots. Those changes are targeted at Shasta County, where an increasingly conservative majority on the board of supervisors voted to start hand-counting future election results.

Four candidates endorsed by the Josephine County Republican party all appear to have won elections for seats on the non-partisan board of Grants Pass School District 7.

The vote in Ashland to redirect the city’s tax on prepared foods and restaurant meals to fund parks is hanging by a thread. As of Wednesday morning, the measure is being narrowly rejected by voters, with just 40 votes separating the two sides.

Ashland voters are deciding on a change to their special tax on all prepared foods in the city. The May 16 ballot measure has drawn lots of heated debate from both sides.

After months of confusion about how Shasta County will conduct its elections, county supervisors approved a new company to provide their voting equipment on Thursday. That’s in addition to an effort to hand-count ballots.

After ditching Dominion Voting Systems in January, Shasta County still doesn’t have a clear way to conduct elections. The county’s Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to try hand counting every ballot.

Claims of election fraud have been increasing since the 2020 election, and they’re having an impact on the upcoming midterm elections in November.