Shasta County supervisors hired an elections chief without experience just months before the election. While the most high-profile election conspiracies emanate from swing states like Michigan and Georgia, the battle over democracy continues to rage across California.

A CalMatters analysis shows that California’s campaign finance watchdog has sometimes taken years to resolve cases, sometimes after politicians have won election or left office.

Elections-related bills signed into law will allow disabled voters to vote curbside, permit mail-in ballots to be processed like in-person votes and treat double-voting as a misdemeanor, among other changes. 

The most sweeping bills to change California elections got shelved in the Legislature. Instead, lawmakers are focusing on ballot measure language, local redistricting, voting integrity and campaign finance tweaks before the 2024 election.

In San José, despite a hotly contested mayoral contest, just 17 percent of the more than a half-million eligible voters had returned ballots one day before the election.

In the latest San Jose Inside Power Poll, the would-be supervisor’s political fortunes have rebounded since a majority of incumbent supervisors realigned district boundaries, making him temporarily ineligible to join them.

Facebook’s Oversight Board said the ongoing risk of violence “justified” the suspension.

Santa Clara County is one of just 17 in California that offer campaign finance records in easily analyzed online forms. Here's what they show.

Undeterred by the freeway-crossing trek to sidestep protesters at his last Bay Area rally, Donald Trump is back—this time in San Jose.

As housing costs soar and incomes remain relatively stagnant, San Jose aims to pass a new rent control ordinance by the start of 2016.

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced last week that the state would restore voting rights to 60,000 ex-felons.

Fresh off the July recess, San Jose's City Council reconvenes Tuesday to start a new fiscal year. With a pension reform settlement out of the way, it's time to talk trestle. The Willow Glen trestle

Questions about a San Jose City Council candidate’s marital status have prompted an erstwhile acquaintance to file an ethics complaint.

The county will consider enlisting private sector help or adopting a full vote-by-mail system to speed up the vote count on election night.