San Jose's two City Council incumbents managed to win another four years in office, one in a landslide victory and the other by only a slim margin.

Voters who want to cast their ballot for the June 7 presidential primaries in person don’t have to wait until Election Day.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo joined labor leaders to tout the measure as a fix for the city’s short-staffed police force.

San Jose Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio took just about everyone off guard when he filed papers last week to run for Congress against Rep. Mike Honda.

With more voters casting ballots by mail, Santa Clara County may start offering prepaid postage as soon as this fall.

The notoriously poor-performing Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters is back at the public trough, asking the Board of Supervisors (BOS) for millions more in taxpayer money for electronic equipment that may never be needed.

A special election took place in Santa Clara County last week and something unusual happened—it went smoothly. Well, maybe not that smooth for one candidate.

While parts of our nation engage in voter suppression, the city of Santa Clara continues to provide new ways to increase voter participation and provide citizens with tools to evaluate candidates.

With 86 percent of votes tallied, Tim Orozco holds a clear lead in the special election for San Jose's District 4 City Council seat.

Hoping to bolster returns in San Jose's District 4 council race, election officials have expanded hours and ballot drop-off sites.

The special election race for San Jose’s District 4 council seat has taken a turn for the confounding. Another batch of error-laden absentee ballots went out Monday, only this time Santa Clara County’s Registrar of Voters might not be to blame.

After an election plagued by slow results, costly ballot misprints and the sudden resignation of a key top official, Santa Clara County is looking to improve its embattled Registrar of Voters Office.

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.

Sam Liccardo's victory in the San Jose mayoral contest was confirmed Tuesday, putting to rest suspicions that there were errors in the vote count.

County Executive Jeff Smith announced Friday that the Registrar of Voters will conduct a post-election manual tally of 1 percent of precincts to ensure the accuracy of electronic vote scanners. The recount is not related to any particular local race, he noted in a statement, but it offers a last-gasp hope to candidates who trail by close margins.

A proposal to regulate surveillance technology on the county level comes up for consideration at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting.