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The administration is promoting a tool known as the SAVE program to maintain state voter lists. Here’s why that’s a bad idea: bit.ly/4v2OaaJ

🚨Nerd Alert 🚨 Especially for the LA Political Nerds. politicaldata.vote/ *Please use laptop/desktop, not optimized for phone This site takes LA County 2026 Primary Election Results, and the @Political_Data records of who voted... and breaks out analysis for EVERY election in LA (except judges) gives you the ability to: - Visualize precinct maps / winners in a district (and the LA portions of legislative/congressional seats) - Select sub-geographies (Mayor by council district, Senate by City, City council seat by neighborhood, etc) - See regression analysis of results by Age, Race, Party and ethnicity, showing correlations or lack thereof. - Take in the Ecological Inference analysis (viewer beware) which gives a statistical analysis of subgroup voting trends. Read the prompt before digging in, EI can seem strange! - Run correlations of candidates against each other - like you can see based on precinct-level data just how much was @nithyavraman tied to @TomSteyer or @kennethmejiaLA While there is a lot of stuff on LA Mayor, this has everything -so you could literally compare governor race to Glendale School board or Long Beach city council, or whatever. This is all experimental. Hope to build out to other counties as we can get access to the data. This was a lot of work... hope you enjoy!! Send feedback as I will continue to play around with this.

As I argued in this column, the so-called voter ID law is a voter suppression tactic by a political party w/a too small voting base to win single-seat winner-take-all district elections. The@cagop would be better off supporting proportional representation ivn.us/an-open-letter-to-my-…

Respectfully, if we did a 48-hour rule we would be disenfranchising tens or hundreds of thousands of voters. For what? To convince people who still insist that the 2020 election was stolen and the FBI was guiding people into the Capitol on Jan 6? To stop Twitter trolls, some of whom we have found are getting paid to push disinformation? We could absolutely speed things up with significantly more staffing. But it would be costly - and what’s the cost-benefit ratio? Let’s say you staffed up LA with tens of millions of dollars so they could count 90% of ballots in 48 hours. That could be possible. But you would also be spending tens of millions in the cumulative of 57 other counties, most of which don’t have these close races that are drawing the ire of everyone. And are we gonna be hearing all these complaints out of LA County in the general - when there may be no close races except Raman v. Bass (where neither of their camps are likely to scream about fraud and lie about the election). So, massive $$ shift away from other state priorities to achieve what? Faster results to quell out of state disinformation? And, note, in this case it wouldn’t have even changed the reason for their claims of fraud, we would still have @spencerpratt starting with a lead and then losing. It would just happen faster. There is the state law that ballots to be accepted when they are postmarked on time, mailed on Election Day or, commonly, mailed the week before but USPS delays cause them to be late. This would cause hundreds of thousands of ballots to be disqualified if/when SCOTUS decides a current case. I would invite you to join me at any county registrar to see all the trays of ballots that are set aside to be disqualified in November if that decision restricts counties abilities to count these ballots. It was insane before the new law allowing postmark to count, and it will be worse this year if SCOTUS rules against it. There are other things, like the ability for Santa Cruz’s registrar to get ballots that arrive in Santa Clara (common because mail from one county often travels to USPS sorting facilities in other counties) or ability for people to fix a bad signature, or the same day registration (which necessitates a provisional ballot so registrars can be sure the person is an eligible voter and isn’t voting twice). The catch with all of these last edge cases is that we could say “ok, counties, you have a week to do all that, not a month” but that would do zero to stop all the freak out we have seen this last week. We would still not be done. So, we can work with counties and maybe help fund more election workers within reason, but I think we can’t let conspiracy theorists or the loudest disingenuous actors online guide our policy choices. If we do we are just disenfranchising voters because we don’t know how to confront mean tweets and lies coming out of the White House - and genuinely, nothing we do that is a rational policy would appease them anyways.

The following is respectfully presented for your consideration... In 1938, California's General Election was certified 37 days after the election. In 1952, it was certified 48 days after the election. In 1968... 35 days after the election. In 2024... 38 days after the election.

Our new poll finds that 79% of voters want a constitutional amendment that restores limits on money in elections. More results and what’s behind them: bit.ly/4dPG5yA

Many voters choose to return their Vote by Mail ballot on Election Day. Those ballots are valid and deserve the same level of care, security, and verification as every other ballot cast in the election. Taking the time for work ensures every eligible vote is counted accurately.

That's why my campaign for California Secretary of State calls for repealing top two elections and replacing them with legislative elections from multi-seat districts by proportional representation and single-seat executive office by ranked-choice voting feinstein4sos.org/voter-guid…

RT @laderafrutal: It warns my heart to spot a use of the term, “single-seat district,” in the wilds of Twitter, and by a candidate for the…

It's great my vote has been confirmed. Now we need proportional representation elections so all voters can elect someone who actually represents their views, instead of our outdated single-seat district winner-take-all system that leaves millions of voters w/o true representation

CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS: f you haven't vote yet, there is still time to vote, until 8pm on Tuesday night, June 2 A vote for my California Secretary of State campaign is a vote for a more inclusive and representative democracy for our state! feinstein4sos.org/voter-guid… #california

Howie is live with @Feinstein4SoS, Green candidate for California Secretary of State! Watch at youtube.com/watch?v=JbLNEun1…

California Elections: Vote for a more inclusive and representative multi-party democracy -- that gives more Californians a seat at the table of the democracy that affects their lives -- by voting Michael Feinstein for Secretary of State feinstein4sos.org/voter-guid… #californiavote

Opinion: An Open Letter to My Fellow Secretary of State Candidates: Where Is Our Debate About Democracy? By Michael Feinstein, Green candidate for California Secretary of State ivn.us/an-open-letter-to-my-… #capolitics #caelections #electoralreform #votegreenparty #caleg #votingrights

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Gerrymandering is getting worse and more frequent. We break down the past, present, and future of this antidemocratic practice: bit.ly/3MqI6FI

VIDEOS: Interested in proportional representation and ranked-choice voting in the 2026 CA Secretary of State campaign? See my campaign videos link for vibrant discussion of a more inclusive and representative democracy: feinstein4sos.org/videos/ #caelections #capolitics #caleg

The PSA voters need to hear: A law written by @LorenaSGonzalez allows voters ballots to be counted, even if mailed on Election Day. But this law has been effectively killed for most of the state because of a change at the post office. Srsly. abc7news.com/amp/post/califo…

My Green campaign for Secretary of State in the news. Here I call for repeal of the jungle primary, oppose voter ID requirements leading to voter suppression and warn of threat to our election integrity from Trump administration ocregister.com/2026/05/12/20… #caelections #capolitics