Voting Rights,

Padilla, Schumer Launch First-Ever Senate Election Observer Program To Protect 2026 Midterms

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee and California’s…

4 weeks ago

Supreme Court Upholds Mail Ballot Deadlines; L.A. County Rules Stand

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) Dean C. Logan June 29 responded to the United States Supreme…

4 weeks ago

Democracy is Still a Radical Idea

  I remember having to say the flag salute in high school and thinking, “What hypocrisy, liberty and justice for…

1 month ago

Padilla, Senate Democrats Demand USPS Abandon Plan to Carry Out Trump’s Illegal Executive Order Restricting Vote by Mail

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee and California’s former…

1 month ago

Padilla Leads Bill to Block Trump from Deploying Federal Law Enforcement at Polling Places

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee and California’s…

1 month ago

Padilla Leads Senate Colleagues in Urging Sec. Lutnick to Halt Implementation of Trump’s Illegal EO to Eliminate Vote-by-Mail

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), along with Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), June…

2 months ago

Vote Centers to Open This Weekend for the 2026 Statewide Direct Primary Election

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) Dean C. Logan announced that 122 Vote Centers will open on…

2 months ago

Supervisors Approve Motion to Strengthen Election Resiliency and Protect Election Workers

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors May 20 approved a motion to strengthen the county’s preparedness…

2 months ago

Jim Crow Court’s Return Highlights Need For Fundamental Reform

  On April 29, the conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act  or VRA, opening the…

2 months ago

L.A. County Begins Mailing Sample Ballots for the 2026 Statewide Direct Primary Election

LOS ANGELES — The County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) Dean C. Logan announced that the mailing of sample ballot books to…

3 months ago