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SF Store Owner Sees Thief Break Into Mailbox, Discards at Least One Ballot

The owner of Reliance Market at 20th and Castro streets in San Francisco witnessed every mail-in-ballot-casting voter’s worst nightmare this past Friday: a local mailbox being broken into and purged of ballots.

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San Francisco Partners With Local Nonprofit To Help Vulnerable Residents Vote in 2020 Election

With just over a week until Election Day, the Shanti Project — a volunteer nonprofit organization that helps the well-being of people with disabling illnesses or conditions — and the City have teamed up to offer personalized ballot pick-up and drop-off services to local voters who need them.

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New Poll Finds Mayor Breed's Approval Rating 'Favorable,' But San Franciscans Question Her Job Performance

As the November elections loom, one poll conducted by Public Policy Polling (PPP), headquartered in North Carolina, and another by Oakland’s EMC Research show that San Franciscans like Mayor Breed, but they still don't think she's gotten the city on the right track.

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Jean Quan Is Oakland's First Female (and Asian American) Mayor

It's official: City Councilwoman Jean Quan has won the Oakland mayor's race, beating out Don Perata in the ranked-choice voting tally by a margin of 51% to 49% (a little more than 2,

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Leland Yee to Announce His Candidacy for Mayor

Via SF Weekly's blog this a.m. we see that former supervisor and assemblyman Leland Yee may be looking to become S.F.'s first Asian mayor -- that is unless David Chiu

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Preliminary Supervisor Election Results, Post-Ranked-Choice Runoffs: Kim, Wiener Still On Top, District 10 Still Damn Close

55% of you went out to vote last Tuesday, and they're still trying to figure out who won the Board of Supervisors races (good luck sweatin' this out, District 10!). The first preliminary

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Newsom Takes Lieutenant Governor, Boxer Wins (Barely), California Democrats Feel Lucky

The NYT, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Chron are calling it for Boxer, with a 4-point spread and 30% of precincts reporting, ending a bitter fight with Republican Carly Fiorina that might

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Pot Smokers Not Actually Making It to the Polls?

The LA Times blog reports that, via preliminary exit poll data, "only about 1 voter in 10 said that his or her main motivation to vote in this election was Prop. 19." Most

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Ballots Made Easy: Local and State Proposition Endorsements

Have you seen this year's ballot? It's about 17 miles long and jam-packed with ballot measures, so you're excused if you've been having a hard time making sense of the alphabet soup of

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Vote Early (But Not Often)

It's always true, but never more than this year: the stakes in this election are huge. The City has lots of resources to help you look up your polling place and understand the

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