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For the next three weeks, people across the state can vote to choose their nominees for congressional and state legislative seats, as well as for local races including sheriffs, district attorneys and county commissioners.
What if there were an election and no one ran? That's the case in some rural areas where there are sometimes no candidates for an elected office.
Two of 3 Orange County commissioners races are unopposed, leaving only one on the primary ballot in 2024.
The Associated Press is making some of its U.S. elections data available for free to more than 400 nonprofit news organizations in a program funded by the Google News Initiative, the company said on Wednesday. The small, primarily digital newsrooms are members of the Institute for Nonprofit News. While that 15-year-old group includes some national outlets like ProPublica, most of its members are smaller organizations that cover local news, most with only a handful of employees and many that operate in areas left otherwise bereft of coverage.
The Times' editorial page will begin publishing its endorsements for the March 5 ballot this week. There's a lot more than just the presidential primary.