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Highlander Archive / The Highlander ASUCR Parliamentarian Andrew Leon-Bercovich began the eighth ASUCR meeting of the quarter on Feb. 24 by addressing an issue that arose regarding senators’ ability to vote on current ASUCR legislation while also filing for candidacy in the upcoming ASUCR elections.  Chapter 7 of the Elections Code states, “ASUCR Senators, Directors or Executive Cabinet members who have filed to run in ASUCR Elections or are planning to run, must recuse themselves from...

Want to help redraw county districts? The current boundaries of the Stanislaus County supervisorial districts may change now that the 2020 Census data is rolling in. The lines could be redrawn to balance out any population changes. Stanislaus County is looking to establish an ad hoc Citizen’s Advisory Redistricting Commission to make recommendations on how to draw new lines for the five supervisorial districts. The commission will assist the county in e...

On Wednesday evening, the University of Georgia Student Government Association announced the Belong and Bridge executive tickets will continue to a runoff election. Per the Elections Code, the two tickets with the largest proportion of the vote where neither receive an absolute majority move on to a runoff. The election certification announcement, which was held through Zoom, was previously scheduled for 5 p.m. but was delayed until 5:50 p.m. due to a last minute Elections Committee hearing. Th...

Saturday night, the Student Government Association Elections Committee unanimously voted to sanction the Belong executive ticket for violating the Elections Code. The decision followed a Zoom disciplinary meeting regularly punctuated by friendly pleasantries and technical difficulties. This marks the Belong ticket’s third sanction of the election season. The most recent sanction came as a result of a complaint filed by junior Christian Carlow, chief counsel for the Voice executive ticket. ...

Introduction In December 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra was announced to be President-Elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr.s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The California Attorney Generals Office is the second largest Justice Department in the United States, second only to the U.S. Department of Justice, and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra was the first Latino Attorney General in Californias history. Before becoming the Attorney General of Californi...

January 25, 2021 Introduction In December 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra was announced to be President-Elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr.’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The California Attorney General’s Office is the second largest Justice Department in the United States, second only to the U.S. Department of Justice, and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra was the first Latino Attorney General in California’s history. Before becoming the Att...

Tweet At 7:30 a.m. on Saturday January 9, the weather app on my phone registered 35 degrees in the Rancho Murieta Equestrian Center. I could see my breath, which is a rarity for this Southern California denizen. But despite the early hour and the frosty temperatures, local officials, concerned citizens, and state policy makers gathered for the first of the Day 2 panel discussions: By What Authority? State of Emergency and Your Constitutional Rights. Despite the illusion of full authority tha...

Democrats have taken control of the US Senate, with millions of voters in two run-off races in Georgia delivering another rebuke to President Donald Trump. Two months after Joe Biden won the White House and Democrats retained the House of Representatives, Republicans suffered the devastating loss of the Senate following one of the richest campaigns in history. And it was a young man, Jon Ossoff, 33, with an Australian-born and bred mother who won the Senate race that handed the keys to the k...

By Michael Feinstein. Inside/Outside. December 10, 2020 2020 has been a year like no other – including for Santa Monica municipal elections. Such a high number of candidates qualified for the City Council ballot (for the city’s four open, four-year seats), that it led to two columns on the hard copy vote-by-mail (VBM) ballot to list them all – and six screens on the County’s new in person touch screen, ballot-marking device (BMD) voting system. According to numerous anecdotal reports re...

Election day. but i can tell you that the broward county elections office has consistently not followed the elections code in florida. and i think thats why a lot of people are alarmed. in palm beach right now, the supervisor of elections seems to have given up. just have given up. >> but on that, if you heard any suggestion of do you think that is possible that happened? you have been around. you have been in the political world a long time, been around a lot of elections. do you really think p...