Registrar of Voters starts special election ballot counting
MODESTO — With just under three weeks until the Nov. 4 special election, counting of received ballots will begin today, according to Stanislaus County Registrar of Voters Donna Linder.
During Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Linder said that ballots were mailed to voters on Oct. 6, giving them just about four weeks to fill out and return their ballot.
The sole issue this November is Proposition 50, which will determine whether to reshape California’s congressional districts to add as many as five Democrat-held seats in Congress — an offset to moves made in Texas and other red states.
The outcome of California’s special election could determine which party wins control of the closely divided House — Republicans hold a 219-213 advantage — and whether Democrats will be able to blunt President Donald Trump’s power in the second half of his term on issues from immigration to reproductive rights.
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