A lawsuit filed with the California Supreme Court this week is challenging the placement of a controversial initiative to divide the state into three on the November ballot less than one month after it was signed off on by the Secretary of State’s Office. According to a San Francisco Chronicle article, the Planning and Conservation […]
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UPDATE: Arcata Council Sends McKinley Initiative to Voters
UPDATE: Multiple news outlets are reporting that the Arcata City Council voted unanimously last night, with Mayor Sofia Pereira absent, to put an initiative before voters seeking to prevent the removal of the President William McKinley statue from the Arcata Plaza. The council voted 4-1, with Councilmember Michael Winkler dissenting, to remove the McKinley statute […]
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Sundberg Concedes Fifth to Madrone
Supervisor Ryan Sundberg today conceded the race for the Fifth District seat to Steve “Sungnome” Madrone, who won by a narrow 118-vote margin, according to final election results released this week. In a post to his Facebook page, Sundberg says he believes he left the sprawling district — which includes McKinleyville north to the county […]
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UPDATE: Madrone’s Fifth District Lead Seems Insurmountable
UPDATE: Humboldt County Registrar of Voters Kelly Sanders just told the Journal that the only ballots that remain outstanding in the Fifth District are the up-to-315 provisional ballots from Election Day, which still haven’t been vetted or counted, and another 16 or so vote by mail ballots that have yet to be scanned. With a […]
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Sundberg's Chances to Take the Fifth and Why it Takes So Long to Count the Votes
By the time this paper hits newsstands, it will have been a week since Election Day and a fifth of the county’s electorate remains on edge, awaiting the results of a nail-biter of a supervisorial race currently separated by just 33 votes. With the final and generally definitive post-election tally at least a week away, […]
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State-Splitting Initiative Qualifies for November Ballot
An initiative to split California into three states has gathered enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot, according to multiple news reports. Known as the “Cal 3 Initiative,” the measure is being bankrolled by Bay Area venture capitalist Tim Draper and would create three states: “California,” which would stretch along the coast from Los […]
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Elections Office: At Least 1,201 Ballots to be Counted in Fifth District Race
There are at least 1,201 ballots yet to be counted in the neck-and-neck battle for a seat on the board of supervisors representing Humboldt County’s Fifth District, and possibly many more, according to Registrar of Voters Kelly Sanders. Election night ended with challenger Steve Madrone holding a razor-thin, 33-vote lead over two-term incumbent Ryan Sundberg, […]
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Election Analysis: What History Tells Us About Who Will Take the Fifth
If you’re all aflutter today, opining about who’s going to come out on top in the Fifth District supervisors race, you should probably calm down. There’s a long road ahead. Challenger Steve Madrone shocked anyone who happened to be watching at 12:40 this morning when the final election night report posted, showing he’d erased a […]
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Election Rundown: A Reformer’s Landslide, a Nail-Biter in the Fifth and What You Missed on Election Night
Tens of thousands of Humboldt County voters hit the polls Tuesday and when the dust settled in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the county had ushered reform into the auditor-controller’s office, handed an incumbent supervisor a third term, picked a judge in a landslide and, well, was still on the fence in a Fifth […]
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3rd UPDATE: Paz Dominguez Grows Lead in Auditor-Controller Race
THIRD UPDATE: Karen Paz Dominguez continued to grow her lead in the auditor-controller’s race with the final election night report, coming in 1,535 votes ahead of Mike Lorig and garnering 54.34 percent of the ballots tallied in the contest to his 45.28 percent. PREVIOUSLY: SECOND UPDATE: The auditor-controller race continues to be close but Karen […]
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3rd UPDATE: Bass Leads in Fourth District Race, Results Unchanged in Final Report
3rd UPDATE: The race for Fourth District supervisor remained unchanged in the final election report with Supervisor Virginia Bass still ahead with 57.27 percent of the vote while challengers Dani Burkhart and Mary Ann Lyons were separated by one vote at 21.21 and 21.18 percent, respectively. PREVIOUSLY: 2nd UPDATE: Supervisor Virginia Bass was still ahead […]
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3rd UPDATE: Madrone Takes Slim Edge in Final Election Night Report
3rd UPDATE: In a shocking turn of events, Fifth District challenger Steve Madrone has taken a 33-vote lead in the final election night tally over incumbent Supervisor Ryan Sundberg. Sundberg led throughout the evening, from the early returns through the third election night report, which saw him with a 185-vote edge, but the final return […]