Voting Questions? Call the Voter Hotline: 1-(877) 321-VOTE (8683) Need More Help? See our Voter Information Page. If returning your Mail-in-Ballot via USPS please mail by May 19th. Lake County mail goes to a sorting center in Sacramento before being returned to our Registrar of Voters. We don’t know yet if ballots received after June … Read more
Verify that your voter registration information before ballots are mailed: https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/ Did your ballot get counted? Sign up for ballot tracking: https://california.ballottrax.net/voter/ Not registered to vote? Do it today: https://registertovote.ca.gov/
By: ROBERTA MACINTYRE & DAVID BECKER, March 25, 2026 Polls, Ballot Seizures, and the Unexpected Election Dynamics As California heads into its 2026 gubernatorial race, some political observers are raising a provocative question: Could the state witness a general election runoff between two Republicans? This possibility, once considered far-fetched in deep-blue California, is now a subject … Read more
From the California Department of Education High School Voter Education Weeks are coming up (April 13-24), helping put students on the path to a lifetime of civic engagement and voting. It’s never too early to motivate our students to get involved and become engaged participants in our democracy. Since the inception of the California preregistration … Read more
Remember those signature gatherers a couple of months ago outside of grocery stores. They were gathering signatures for a CA Voter ID measure to be placed on the November ballot. Whatever ‘facts’ they were telling people, it worked. They have gathered, per them, 1.3M signatures, more than enough to have this measure appear on the … Read more
No Kings peaceful protest. March 28, Courthouse Museum Park, Lakeport. Noon to 2pm.
Join Mike Barnstorming the North State. Mike will be in Lake County on April 8. Flip the First, Mike McGuire for Congress!!
By Nara Dahlbacka & Roberta MacIntyre Local Delegates Play Key Roles as Endorsement Controversy Highlights Party Tensions The California Democratic Convention held last weekend was anything but routine for Lake County’s delegation. Against a backdrop of crucial endorsement votes and policy debates, the Lake County Democratic Central Committee (DCC) delegates stood out for their active … Read more
By Michael Contos, edited version, the previous version had the median Lake county and California incomes wrong. Why Does Everything Cost So Much? You’re not imagining it. You’re not bad at math. You’re not spending too much on coffee. The cost of living in America has gone up sharply, and for many of us in … Read more
