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August 24, 2013 By Alex Vassar

2013 Special Elections

For my California political enthusiast friends (particularly OC Political blogger Chris Nguyen), I have some good news… in this year of election milk and honey, you’ve made it through the longest gaps between elections. We had three gaps of 62 days between elections, but fear not. In just 24 days, we will be seeing two […]

Filed Under: Current Research, ElectionVolunteer, JoinCalifornia, State Assembly, State Senate, Top Stories

May 14, 2013 By Alex Vassar

SD32: Norma Torres wins election to Senate

In today’s Special Election to fill the vacancy created by Senator Negrete McLeod’s departure for Congress, Norma J. Torres was easily elected to the upper house. Although the counting of ballots is far from complete, it appears that Assemblymember Torres won in the heavily Democratic Senate District 32. She may be sworn into the 1,146th member […]

Filed Under: Current Research, ElectionVolunteer, JoinCalifornia, Redistricting, Special Elections, State Assembly, State Senate, Top Stories

November 21, 2012 By Alex Vassar

SD-04 Special Election goes to January Run-off

The SD-04 Special Election is headed to a January run-off after the final votes from the first round ended up giving former Senator Jim Nielsen just less than the 50% that he needed to win the race outright. The final tally from the Secretary of State’s office was; Jim Nielsen (49.8%) Mickey Harrington (27.7%) Dan […]

Filed Under: Current Research, ElectionVolunteer, JoinCalifornia, Special Elections, State Senate

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