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San Diego Supervisors OK Aug. 15 Special Election for Fletcher’s Seat

May 24, 2023
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SAN DIEGO—The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously May 23 in favor of a special election on Aug. 15 to fill the District 4 seat vacated by Nathan Fletcher. Should no candidate receive a majority vote in that election, the county will then hold a special general election Nov. 7. The board also…

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Democrats Win Pennsylvania Special Election, Maintain Narrow Majority in State House

May 17, 2023
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Democrat Heather Boyd defeated Republican Katie Ford in the special election for a seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on May 16, meaning Democrats will retain their narrow one-seat majority in the state House. Boyd, a former congressional and state legislative aide who quit her job as a senior adviser to Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Del.) in March…

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Florida’s Parental Rights Bill Sponsor to Be Replaced in Special Election

December 22, 2022
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Florida state Rep. Joe Harding, the Republican who sponsored the Parental Rights in Education bill, will be replaced in a special election in March, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Dec. 21. The special election to fill Harding’s seat has been scheduled for March 7, 2023, and the general election for May 16, 2023. Harding gained fame…

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Republicans Eye Chance for Historic Win in Deep-Blue Texas

June 8, 2022
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Rio Grande Valley Republican Maya Flores believes she is poised to flip deep blue Texas Congressional District 34 red in a special election on June 14. “I’m going to win South Texas. We’re going to win Cameron County,” Flores, of Harlingen, told The Epoch Times. If she is successful, it will represent a seismic political…

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Mail-In Ballots Fail to Arrive for Pennsylvania Special Election

April 6, 2022
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Mail-in ballots for hundreds of voters in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania failed to arrive for a special election on Tuesday. Slightly over 300 people did not receive the ballots for the election in the 116th Legislative District, which is being held to elect a successor for Republican state Rep. Tarah Toohil, according to local media reports….

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Vote Centers Open for San Gabriel Valley’s 49th Assembly District Special Election

February 6, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—Vote centers are open for the Feb. 15 special election in the western San Gabriel Valley’s 49th Assembly District. The vote centers will remain open every day from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. for in-person voting or to drop off completed vote-by-mail ballots, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan said on Feb. 5….

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Huntington Beach Fails to Choose Replacement for Tito Ortiz

July 20, 2021
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City council in Huntington Beach, Calif., failed to settle on a candidate to replace former mayor pro tem Tito Ortiz during a July 19 meeting. Ortiz resigned from council June 1, saying attacks against him put his family at risk. “As of recent, the attacks against me have moved into involving my family,” Ortiz said when announcing his…

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Assemblymember Kevin Kiley is Running for Governor

July 6, 2021
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California lawmaker Kevin Kiley is joining the race to unseat Gov. Gavin Newsom during an upcoming recall election. The Republican assembly member announced his candidacy in a July 6 blog post. “With a strong initial showing, we can unify support,” Kiley said in a push for campaign contributions. “That will help prevent the field from…

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Recall Newsom Data Shows Support Exceeded Threshold

May 7, 2021
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A total of 1,719,943 signatures have been certified as verified in the campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom, California’s Secretary of State said May 5. To trigger an election, 1,495,709 verified signatures were needed, meaning supporters exceeded the minimum threshold by 15 percent. Final tallies show that 2,161,349 verified signatures were submitted to the Secretary of State’s…

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DeSantis Schedules Special US House Election for January

May 4, 2021
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday scheduled a special election to fill the U.S. House seat vacated by the late Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) for Jan. 11, 2022. “I am going to be doing an executive order to set the special election for Congressional District 20, Alcee Hastings’ seat,” DeSantis said. “We’re going to do…

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