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With Ed Jew and Chris Daly in Room 250 as Supervisors - San Francisco can witness a change for the better and in favor of those that need help most. Mayor Gavin Newsom has played his card using Bevan Dufty, Sean Elsbernd, Fiona Ma, Alioto-Pier, and chosing now and then to add the dumb Sophina Maxwell and diatribe spewing Jake McGoldrick to suit his needs. Things will change for the better and I wish both Chris Daly and Ed Jew the very best....

CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS WEREN'T THE BIG SPENDERS FOR THIS YEARS STATE ELECTIONS. OIL, TOBACCO AND INSURANCE INDUSTRIES WERE AT THE TOP OF THE SPENDING POOL FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCING IN THE STATE WIDE ELECTIONS....

It’s a San Francisco tradition for local political junkies to gather at the SPUR Office on the day after an election to hear pollster David Binder’s analysis of the results. What was not traditional this year was the sheer exuberance that progressives felt about Supervisor Chris Daly’s hard-earned re-election victory. Roughly half the attendees showed up wearing bright green Daly t-shirts, eager to gloat about an election where the local and national outcome was extremely favorable for progre...

The photo below shows Fresno County Clerk employees counting the vote. This room is sealed off. It has no phone lines and computer data can’t be transferred in or out. All of the memory cards from the voting machines are hand carried into this room and read on special Diebold machines. There will be a cross check (1%) of the machine count against the paper ballots before the vote is certified. However, I discovered that there is no cross check for the machine count and absentee ballots. ...

Not only did Supervisor Chris Daly defeat Newsom’s candidate, Rob Black, by a healthy margin -- but now the Mayor will have to meet with Daly once a month to answer his questions. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in hit pieces by the Mayor’s allies (BOMA, the Police Officers Association, the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, and SFSOS) could not convince District 6 voters to reject Daly, who led his seven opponents with 49.66% of the vote with all precincts reporting. While the City will us...

The California governor’s general election of 2006 was a low voter turnout election due to the deliberate lack of campaign by the pro-death penalty millionaire Democrat Phil Angelides against the pro-death penalty millionaire Republican incumbent Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In spite of this mockery of democracy, the 2 anti-death penalty peace parties, Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party did as well as could be expected and both certainly remain on the ballot....

A comparison of the voter registration statistics from immediately before the June 2006 Primary Election (May 22) to immediately before the November 2006 General Election (Oct 23)....

"Even though the League of Women Voters claims to be non-partisan, the reality is that they are mostly comprised of Democrats. Did they exclude Peter Camejo, knowing that their candidate, Phil Angelides, is a weak candidate, and many Democrats would find Camejo, who is intelligent, charismatic, and truly progressive, very appealing?" Martensen points out that excluding third party candidates from debates is censorship, and that the the Republican and Democratic Parties are not really inter...

Torn up signs for Jason Overman's campaign for City Council in Berkeley's District 8 are an all-too common sight. What other sabotage can we expect from Gordon Wozniak's supporters?...

While the system is stacked against working people and the poor through rampant electoral fraud and the corrupt corporate buying and selling of candidates to the American people, Liberation News suggests people vote as one part of a broader struggle for change....