Santa Clarita school board races are close as election results from Los Angeles County are still being reported Wednesday evening.  Note: These numbers have been updated as 4:45 p.m. Wednesday and are subject to change as more ballots are counted. There are six districts governing public schools within the Santa Clarita Valley, three of which held elections on Nov. 3 ...

Visit the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce (SCV Chamber) Election Watch 2020 page, under the Advocacy tab, for all the latest information on this year’s election. Currently, you are able to find the Chamber’s official candidate endorsements as well as local and state initiative positions. There are also resources for you to find out where you can drop your ...

Two candidates running for the Santa Clarita Community Community College District Board of Trustees have taken issue with the endorsement process of the College of the Canyon Faculty Association (COCFA). Candidates Fred Arnold, running for Trustee Area 3 and Tony Watson, seeking the Trustee Area 2 seat, have voiced their concerns regarding the endorsement process of the COCFA, a union ...

With vote-by-mail ballots distributed to all registered voters in California and early voting locations now open across Santa Clarita, voters have begun to cast their ballots in the 2020 election. As of Monday, Californians have returned 7,152,353 vote-by-mail ballots according to California Secretary of State (SOS) Alex Padilla’s office.  Nearly 50,000 voters turned out for in-person voting in Los Angeles ...

Although all registered voters in Los Angeles County were issued vote-by-mail ballots due to the COVID-19 pandemic, residents are still able to cast their ballots in person.  Beginning Saturday, Oct. 24, select voting centers are expected to be open for in-person voting for the 2020 election. All vote centers are set to be open on Oct. 30 as well, according ...

Proposition 16 is on the ballot this November in California and seeks to repeal the state’s ban on the use of affirmative action on the basis of race or sex in public employment, public education and public contracting. More specifically, the proposition seeks to repeal Proposition 209, passed in 1996, which made California the first state to place a constitutional ...

Proposition 25 (Prop 25) seeks to end the practice of cash-bail and replace it with risk assessments for detained suspects awaiting trial by Pretrial Assessment Services with the use of an approved risk assessment tool. The potential change initially entered California’s political arena in 2018 with the passage of Senate Bill 10 (SB 10), which proposed the changes a Yes ...

The ballot for this November’s election includes the Los Angeles County District Attorney (DA) race between incumbent Jackie Lacey and challenger George Gascón, who offer similar priorities but different paths forward to addressing the challenges the county faces. The two also differ in their career experience, Lacey has spent the majority of her career as a lawyer working in the ...

Los Angeles County has started mailing Vote-by-Mail ballots to all registered voters for the Presidential General Election in November, officials said Monday. The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) began sending out vote-by-mail ballots for the 2020 election on Nov. 3. A Vote-by-Mail ballot is set to be sent to every registered voter to ensure safe and accessible voting options ...

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla reported that the number of registered voters in California has increased by over 2.9 million since the last presidential election for a record 84 percent of eligible voters registered to vote. The 2020 general election voter registration report shows that 21,240,236 Californians were registered to vote as of Sept. 4, 2020. This represents an ...