Election Hero Day and tomorrow, "good government" groups will be monitoring the local election in rural Shasta County, to support election workers there and make sure the laws are followed. Recently, members of the Board of Supervisors said they wanted a hand count on election night, even though state law requires the first count to be done using optical scanners. Dora Rose, deputy director of the League of Women Voters of California, will be in Shasta County for the vote. .
North Dakota is one step closer to getting a full sense of how the courts view redistricting challenges in tribal areas. Legal representatives say community-level work factored into the most recent outcome. Last week, a federal court dismissed a lawsuit filed by two GOP officials, who said North Dakota was wrong to consider race in creating a new subdistrict that encompasses the Fort Berthold reservation. .