Possible SD Mayor Special Election Dates

If Mayor Filner were to resign on Friday 8/23 with an immediate effective date, then the potential dates for the special election would be on a Tuesday within a 60-90 day window.  [charter] [municipal code] The runoff would be “within 49 days” which is a tight...

Looking at AV returns in SD 16

A look at the Absentee ballot returns from the competitive SD 16 race shows a continued low-turnout election, with political and ethnic representation similar to the Primary. The following chart identifies the number of votes cast by Democrats, Republicans and Other...

The Super Majority 16th

The Democratic super-majority in the State Senate was tested in the SD 16 Primary Election where on Election Day it looked like the Republican candidate had won the seat outright despite a large Democratic registration advantage. In subsequent days the vote tightened,...

The League of the Unregistered

According to the Secretary of State, approximately 25% of the eligible voting population of California is unregistered. Using the PDI database we come to roughly the same calculation with 18 million voters and a Census estimate of 23 million Citizens of Voting Age...

Analysis of Other LA Races

We have received a lot of feedback on our posting which looked at the Garcetti/Gruel election through the lens of ethnic & partisanship breakdown of voters.  Several have asked for analysis of other races.  While we don’t have all the data at our fingertips,...