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The 2012 general election was the first non-special election in California to use the nonpartisan blanket primary system established by Proposition 14. As a result, eight congressional districts featured general elections with two candidates of the same party: the 15th , 30th, 35th, 40th , 43rd , and 44th with two Democrats, and the 8th and ...
However, Audie Bock, a member of the Green Party, was elected in 1999 during the 1998–99 California special elections. Local elections in California at the county and city level are officially non-partisan and political party affiliations are not included on local election ballots.
Proposition 14 is a California ballot proposition that appeared on the ballot during the June 2010 state elections. It was a constitutional amendment that effectively transformed California's non-presidential elections from first-past-the-post to a nonpartisan blanket primary (a two-round system).
Partisan primaries in mostly safe districts are pushing Congress and our national politics to the extremes. Abolishing them is a feasible and effective response. Opinion: California got rid of ...
Article 2, Section 6, of California's constitution provides that elections for county, city, school, and judicial offices are officially non-partisan and political party affiliations are not included on local election ballots.
HJR 31 proposes "amendments to the State Constitution to require members of a district school board to be elected in a partisan election rather than a nonpartisan election." The amendment is ...
In California, voting rights are restored to felons automatically after release from prison and discharge from parole. Probationers may vote. [13] Prior to 1978, only persons who had a certified medical excuse, or who could demonstrate that they would be out of town on Election Day, were allowed to vote absentee. Today, any voter may vote absentee.
The partisan makeup of voters in the county is 35% Republican, 32% independent and 29% Democratic. The chairs of the state Republican and Democratic parties each declined interviews about the ...