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. .
Voters are selecting leaders for their cities and towns in Tuesday s 2023 Indiana Municipal Elections. Low voter turnout isn t unusual in many communities in these local elections. However, Hamilton County Elections Administrator Beth Sheller said it isn t a typical year in the state s fourth-largest county. .
School board elections in Idaho on Tuesday could impact what students are allowed to read. Although school board elections are often overlooked, they ve increasingly become races to watch - in part because of a rise in "book bans" that supporters say protect kids from content that some consider "obscene." Kurt Zwolfer is director of The Cabin, a center for readers and writers in Boise. He said he thinks school boards are overstepping their duties, when librarians and educators are trained to do the work of book curation. .