The California Citizens Redistricting Commission Applicant Review Panel’s job is becoming a little easier. The ARP is almost halfway through its interviews of the 40 Democratic, 40 Republican, and 40 “Other” finalists for California’s first-ever Citizens Redistricting Commission. But, according to the staff for the State Auditor, who provides legal and staff support for the [...]
At the end of its last meeting, the California State Auditor’s Applicant Review Panel announced a list of questions that the Panel plans to ask the remaining 120 applicants. Unfortunately, two brief but important questions are missing from the list.
First, here are the six questions announced at the end of the last meeting:
In 2008, California voters approved Proposition 11’s call for a commission that “reflects this state’s diversity, including, but not limited to, racial, ethnic, geographic, and gender.” In its work so far this year, the State Auditor’s Applicant Review Panel clearly achieved that goal.
California’s Applicant Review Panel meets today to finalize the 120 Citizens Redistricting Commission applicants whom the ARP will invite for interviews. On Monday, ARP identified the 40 “other” (not registered with the Republican party or with the Democratic party) applicants invited for interviews. On Tuesday the ARP identified the 40 Republicans it will interview. The [...]
Today California’s Applicant Review Panel meets with the goal of identifying the 120 individuals the panel will invite for interviews. Follow the action on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RoseInstitute or watch the live meeting here. These 120 semi-finalists, consisting of 40 Democrats, 40 Republicans, and 40 voters not registered with either major party, will then be interviewed in [...]
On Tuesday, California’s Applicant Review Panel sits down to narrow the pool of remaining applicants. The Panel’s responsibility, under the regulations adopted by the State Auditor, include ensuring the final pool reasonably reflects California’s complex diversity. As stated in Proposition 11, California’s diversity is defined as “including, but not limited to, racial, ethnic, geographic, and [...]
Sponsors of the initiative to modify California’s legislative term limit laws may be wondering what they did to annoy California’s county registrars. Despite filing their petitions with the counties in April, the registrars were unable to complete the signature verification process in time for the measure to qualify for the November 2010 election.
Meanwhile elections officials [...]
The Institute will have more to say on this in coming days, but at 8pm on the last possible day, with barely 1,330 signatures to spare, the Pelosi/Berman initiative to abolish California’s not-yet-formed Citizens Redistricting Commission qualified for the November 2010 ballot.
(Hat tip to Rose Board Member and co-editor of the California Target Report Tony [...]
Our earlier estimates were too low: as of June 10th, California has over 1.33 million ballots left to count from Tuesday’s primary election. Rose Institute researchers Daniel Shane and Ruth Oliver confirmed “uncounted ballot” counts from 55 of the 58 counties. Only Sonoma, Mono and Modoc have not yet responded to our inquiries.
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Clearly the Republican primary [...]
Based on a quick partial survey of county registrar of voters, it appears that there are over 900,000 ballots left to count in California’s June 8th primary.
Rose Institute calls and emails received responses from the following counties:
Orange County: 182,061 ballots remain to be counted (as of 6/9/2010, 4:15 pm)
San Diego County: 160,000 ballots remain to [...]
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