Friday, November 6, 2020
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Overtime: Biden vs. Trump
		NR:  Trump’s Path, Updated
		
 - NR: An Election in Overtime
 - BreitbartCA: Charles Hurt: How President Trump Can Still Win
 - NR: Trump Claims He Won with ‘Legal Votes,’ Predicts ‘a Lot of Litigation’
 - NR: Pennsylvania Democrats Accused of Violating Election Rules, Offering Ballot Info to Party Operatives
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Tech Censorship
		LAT $:  Social media slow to limit users protesting vote-counting
		
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All Mail Elections 2022?
		AP:  Support growing to mail all ballots in California elections
		
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COVID-19 Cases
		FresBee:  Fresno County Board of Supervisors forced to quarantine after positive COVID-19 test
		
 - LADN: Trader Joe’s reports 1,250 COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths in employees nationwide in 8-month period
 - LAT $: L.A. County coronavirus cases hit highest daily level in three months
 - FresBee: Fresno County adds nearly 100 new coronavirus cases. Valley counties not far behind
 
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Cop Killer Plea Deal
AP: Plea deal in California officer killing that fed Trump fight - Judge to Newman cop killer: ‘You will never see the light of day outside the prison walls’
 - ‘You’re a coward:’ Fellow Newman officer addresses killer of slain corporal
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Inmate Votes
		VCStar $:  78 inmates' ballots delivered to elections officials
		
 - AP: Californians decide kids can’t vote, but say parolees should
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Racial "Justice" Agenda
CalM: What the failure of Prop. 25 means for racial justice in California - LAT $: California goes big on criminal justice reform, setting a more progressive path
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Turnout 2020
SFC: Charts show voter turnout for California — and a huge shift from 2016 - CalM: Prepared for the worst, California’s election went OK
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Mob Rule
SFC: Protesters descend on home of Brentwood man who hanged effigy of Joe Biden - 
	
	
Congress 2020
		SDUT:  50th District congressional race remains too close to call 
		
 - SFC: Four California House incumbents trail narrowly as votes come in
 - LADN: Elections 2020: Smith, Garcia virtually tied in LA County’s 25th Congressional race
 - VOC: Latest Orange County Election Results Reveal Tight Battles for National, State and Local Seats
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Ballot Measures 2020
LADN: Election 2020: Here’s what Californians said with their votes - OCReg: Election 2020: Here’s where the ballot measures stand with 100% of precincts reporting; mail-in ballots still being counted
 - SacBee: What California’s new gig worker initiative means for Uber, Lyft drivers — and your fares
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Long Count Continues...
PE: More than a dozen arrested as protesters demand that votes be counted or not - VCStar $: What ballots are left to count in Ventura County
 - Stanislaus County elections office getting ready to count 75,000 additional ballots
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State Senate 2020
		SBSun:  Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh now leads — by 1,051 votes — in 23rd Senate District race
		
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Latino GOP Voices
CalM: Latino Republicans: ‘Trump is a leader, not a politician’ - 
	
	
Scott Peterson's Case
Peterson’s Modesto hearing is off as status conference set for Redwood City - 
	
	
Unemployment Backlog
OCReg: California unemployment claims backlog falls below 1 million - 
	
	
Fire Insurance
SacBee: California forbids insurance carriers from leaving fire-prone communities for 1 more year - CalM: California protects homeowners from having fire insurance dropped — again
 
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The Golden Pen
Katy Grimes
		CG:  California’s Election ‘Anomalies’ Are Not New, Nor Have They Been Fixed
		
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OC Register Editorial
OCReg: With rent control spiked again, make it easier to build more housing - OCReg: California needs to depoliticize ballot measure title and summary writing
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Will Swaim
NR: California: Not as Crazy as We Thought? - 
	
	
Sacramento Valley
SacBee: Teachers in Placer County school district file lawsuit, grievance over COVID safety concerns - 
	
	
SF Bay Area
		SFC:  Maps show how S.F.’s progressive voting varies by neighborhood
		
 - CalM: In the Bay Area, hope and anxiety | CalMatters
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East Bay
SFC: Oakland City Council: Three incumbents lead in five races - 
	
	
South Bay
SJMN: San Jose voters approve slew of local measures - 
	
	
Central Valley
FresBee: Fresno interfaith leaders join together in peace while awaiting election results - Update: Zwahlen, leading in Modesto mayoral race, says ‘There is a message in this vote’
 - Coronavirus update, Nov. 5: Daily cases again exceed key threshold for Stanislaus
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Central Coast
CalCoast: Spike in coronavirus cases linked to college age residents of SLO - CalCoast: Friends of Oceano Dunes accuses APCD of operating unlawfully
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Ventura County
VCStar $: One killed in officer-involved shooting in Ventura - VCStar $: Supervisor results: Ramirez leads Flynn
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Los Angeles County
LADN: L.A. County reports 2,065 new coronavirus cases, highest total since late July - 
	
	
Orange County
		VOC:  Orange County Rolls Out $2 Million Mental Health Outreach Campaign as Coronavirus Cases Increase
		
 - OCReg: After election, Irvine looks poised to change its mayor and half its council
 - OCReg: Incumbents winning in Garden Grove election: Jones, O’Neill, Nguyen, Klopfenstein
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San Bernardino County
SBSun: San Bernardino County’s Measure J takes lead of just 30 votes - SBSun: San Bernardino could lose $14 million with new tax-reduction initiative, staffers say
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Riverside County
PE: Silva pulls ahead of Goodland in Jurupa Valley City Council race - 
	
	
San Diego County
VOSD: ‘One More Hugely Disruptive Thing’: Teachers to Leave Mid-Year Under Retirement Deal - SDUT: Gloria, other frontrunners in San Diego city elections maintain significant leads
 - SDUT: Elevated case rate pushes San Diego County ever so close to the purple tier
 - VOSD: Voters Approved a Much Tougher Police Oversight Board – Now What?
 
