What does it mean when we say “rigged elections

El 7 de junio, los votantes de California tendrán la oportunidad de participar en varias contiendas electorales a nivel estatal, durante la elección primaria no partidista. La participación de los votantes podría verse aumentada debido a un mayor y constante interés en la elección presidencial.

San Diego, CA - With one week to go before the June 7 primary, the chairman of the Republican Party of San Diego County, Tony Krvaric, and the executive director of the Coalition for Fair Employment in Construction, Eric Christen, held a news conference at the San Diego County Registrar of Voters and threatened to kill the Chargers Initiative while calling the team's leadership names.

Independent Voter Project (IVP), autores de la ley top-two para las primarias no partidistas de California, sometieron una petición para enmendar la ley de la Ciudad de San Diego que declara ganadores a los candidatos que obtengan más del 50% de los votos durante la elección primaria. IVP solicitó que el Consejo de la Ciudad añada la enmienda en la boleta electoral para la próxima elección general en noviembre.

On Tuesday, May 24, voters across the state of Texas were asked to return to the polls for several runoff elections. These runoffs--where the top two vote-getters from the primary election face off-- were triggered when no candidate received a majority of votes in that election.

This year, Texas paid for statewide runoff elections for both parties’ nominee for railroad commissioner, as well as runoffs to decide party nominees in various U.S. House and state legislative districts, among other positions.

About a week ago, a friend and enthusiastic Trump supporter invited me to go to a Donald Trump rally. As a Bernie Sanders supporter, my initial reaction was to reject, but after giving it some thought, I came to the conclusion that the millions of Trump voters deserved respect and had earned the right for their voices to be heard.

On June 7, California voters will have an opportunity to weigh in on many important statewide races in the nonpartisan, top-two primaries. Voter participation in these contests may get a boost due to increased and steady interest in the presidential election.

San Diego, CA - Backers of the Citizens’ Plan for Tourism Reform, now Measure D, and taxpayers are enduring a wasteful and unnecessary process.

Over a majority of Americans feel frustrated, helpless, angry, or a combination of the three with the 2016 presidential election, according to a new poll. Further, only 10 percent of respondents have a "great deal" of confidence in the U.S.'s political system.

The Libertarian Party Convention convened over Memorial Day weekend, bringing together thousands of participants — from party delegates to true-believer activists — in the process of selecting the candidates who would go on to represent them during the general election.

And, like any other gathering of promoters of a non-mainstream political ideology, there was no shortage of unconventional behavior during the event.