US Elections

US Elections

Zohran Mamdani defeated sex pest Andrew Cuomo to become New York City's next mayor; Virginia and New Jersey Democrats won governing trifectas; Georgia Democrats won their first statewide elections for non-federal offices since 2006; Mississippi Democrats broke the GOP supermajority in legislature; California voters approved a ballot measure to fight back against GOP redistricting; and Maine voters rejected a ballot measure that would have restricted mail-in voting.

Imagine an election whose outcome doesn't just determine the next two years, but the next decade. One where not just voting rights, reproductive rights, and civil rights - but democracy itself - is on the line, and candidates' rulings have implications for the next several election cycles, and the state's once-in-a-decade census and redistricting. One with notoriously low turnout, but historically high stakes.

Alameda County Registrar of Voters Tim Dupuis has faced no shortage of criticism after recent elections, but he's pushing back against a Grand Jury report taking his performance to task. Though Dupuis announced in September that he would step down from his position in 2026, the county's top election official will oversee one more election this fall which will include the controversial redistricting measure Prop. 50 before the county replaces him.