The Department of Motor Vehicles is required by law to screen motor-voter registrations, and county elections officials say they rely on this information to send out ballots.

Newsom’s absence was “strange,” say political observers, given the tradition that the governor will see the president when he visits.

With few exceptions, the grand jury report’s observations, conclusions and recommendations landed squarely on one side of the city’s political divide–led by Mayor Lisa Gillmor–that was on the losing end of the 2020 council elections, promping the 49ers to call for an investigation of the grand jury for conflicts of interest. Today, the final version of the report revealed that two members had recused themselves because of possible conflicts.

The first poll results in the San Jose mayor general election campaign, of 674 likely city voters polled in the last week of July, showed Chavez leading slightly with 38% of the initial vote preference and Mahan with 37%, with one-fourth of the polled voters undecided.

As the 2022 election season enters its final quarter, the San Francisco 49ers – whose money boosted prior campaigns in both San Jose this spring and Santa Clara in 2020 – may be staying on the sidelines.

With time running out, state lawmakers likely will have to choose between alienating a powerful union and streamlining affordable housing development, as construction trades are at an impasse regarding their support for key housing legislation. 

Any recourse to possible inaccuracies or omissions on Gilmor’s Form 700s is up to the Fair Political Practices Commission – and Santa Clara voters – and not via lawsuits, because of a legal battle she won in 2021.

Gov. Gavin Newsom last month aired campaign ads in the Sunshine State accusing Republican leaders of restricting abortion access, voting rights and free speech.

Meanwhile, the latest San Jose Inside Power Poll finds that voters don’t much care about the fate of the former city hall.

Anh Colton, 48, of Cupertino, has had no law enforcement experience in the last five years. California law requires that candidates for sheriff have at least one year of law enforcement experience within the last five years. 

With 97 of the ballots processed, Stone’s tally was 67.4% to 32.5% for Crockett. Because Stone received more than 50% of the Primary Election vote, he will retain his post, avoiding a runoff vote in November.

The contests for mayor of San Jose, Santa Clara County sheriff, all four of the contested San Jose City Council races and the one contested county supervisor race will have runoff elections in November with the top two finishers.

Lofgren, a member of the Jan. 6 committee, also is a member of the House Judiciary Committee and was a manager of the impeachment proceedings against former President Donald Trump.

Approved by voters in 2010 and rolled out for the first time statewide two years later, California's Top Two primary election voting system has changed state politics.

The approximately 25,000 ballots counted by the Registrar of Voters Elections Division June 9 didn’t change any trends or flip any projected outcomes, but did suggest the early, expected outcomes are more likely to hold.

The Election Division of the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters continued to count ballots today, and reported that as of 5 pm, 54% of the approximately 314,000 ballots had been counted.