California

More than 11m ballots had been returned in CA as of Saturday. Many already have been processed, and are ready to be quickly totaled on election night.

As of Sunday night, 70% of voters in Plumas County had returned their ballots. The figures were similarly high in Alpine and Sierra Counties.

Twelve million people have voted so far, the first year in which California sent everyone a vote-by-mail ballot.

Tens of thousands of jailed Californians who are eligible to vote won’t be able to this year because of issues tied to the pandemic.

State election officials don’t expect intimidation or interference at the polls, but they’re asking law enforcement to step in if it happens.

California’s push to expand language access in elections has run headlong into pandemic fears and record numbers of early voters, from home.

In a stark scene of what the electoral process in California can look like in 2020, masked voters last Monday cast early ballots in an El Dorado County elections office powered by a generator after dry winds and fear of wildfires triggered an electricity shutoff.

It was a succinct appraisal of the state of mind of county election officials grappling with the new normal of voting in the year of a pandemic, disinformation and threats of voter intimidation.

Some county registrars lock up equipment and threaten dismissal to protect California’s early votes from being tallied before election day.

The Elections Super Centers Project has organized more than 60 arena voting sites, 12 of them in the Golden State.

Early returns show California Democrats are turning out in proportionately far higher numbers than Republicans and independents.

California election officials assure voters their ballot is safe in drop boxes and the mail, yet some voters are hand delivering anyway.

There’s no clear-cut reason for the increase, but experts have their theories: voter enthusiasm, ballot and personal safety concerns, and a sense of relief.

For thousands of Californians who have lost their homes to wildfires this year, mail-in voting poses a unique set of challenges.

Becerra escalated a ballot box battle with the California GOP, asking the courts to force the GOP to hand over subpoenaed information.