LAKEPORT
Candidate filing deadlines for the March 5, 2024, Presidential Primary Election
The Lake County Registrar of Voters office would like to remind candidates and voters that a Presidential Primary Election is scheduled to be held on Tuesday March 5, 2024, to elect Federal, State, Legislative and County officials.
In-Lieu-of-Filing Petitions are available between Sept. 14, 2023, and Nov. 8, 2023. The deadline to file is Nov. 8, 2023, by 5 p.m.
Candidates for judicial offices are required to file a Declaration of Intention (DOI) and pay a (nonrefundable) filing fee before filing for office. Judicial candidates may file a Declaration of Intention between October 30, 2023, and Nov. 8, 2023, by 5 p.m.
All candidates for elective office must file Nomination Documents (Nomination Papers & Declaration of Candidacy) as well as pay a (nonrefundable) filing fee (except judicial candidates who pay when filing the DOI) to have their name printed on the ballot. The filing period is Nov. 13, 2023, through December 8, 2023. The deadline to file is Dec. 8, 2023, by 5 p.m. If an incumbent fails to file during this period, candidate filing will extend for any candidate except the incumbent until Dec. 13, 2023, by 5 p.m.
Registered voters interested in filing for county central committees and county council must file Nomination Papers and a Declaration of Candidacy between Sept. 29, 2023, and Dec. 8, 2023, by 5 p.m.
Voters desiring information regarding any of the offices listed below may contact the Registrar of Voters office in person at 325 N Forbes St, Lakeport, by phone at (707) 263-2372 or toll free at (888)235-6730.
The Registrar of Voters office is open Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., excluding County holidays, to assist both candidates and voters.
For additional information:
• visit our website at https://www.lakecountyca.gov/818/Registrar-of-Voters • email us at elections@lakecountyca.gov
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WASHINGTON
Gov. Newsom urges U.S. Supreme Court to uphold life-saving law prohibiting domestic abusers from possessing guns
Ahead of oral arguments in United States v. Rahimi, Governor Gavin Newsom today issued a statement urging the Supreme Court to uphold a federal law prohibiting individuals under domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms. Today’s statement follows an amicus brief the Governor filed in the Supreme Court earlier this year in the case. In his brief, the Governor argued that the lower court incorrectly interpreted the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision and that the government’s ability to enact gun regulations to protect families from dangerous individuals is supported by a longstanding historical tradition.
Since 2019, California has strengthened its nation-leading gun safety laws by making it easier for Californians to sue manufacturers of illegal assault weapons and those bringing them into our communities, allowing lawsuits against irresponsible members of the gun industry, strengthening prohibitions on ghost guns, and restricting marketing to minors. California is the first state in the nation to call for a Constitutional Convention for gun safety.
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CALIFORNIA
New CA institute to combat AI ‘deep fakes’
A pro-Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ad in June slammed former President Donald Trump for supposedly supporting Anthony Fauci, showing images of Trump hugging the doctor who became the face of America’s response to COVID-19.
Except the images were not real — they were deep fakes generated by artificial intelligence.
That ad — and an increasing use of AI-generated content in political campaigns — propelled California Common Cause to launch an institute today to combat AI-driven disinformation.
The California Institute for Technology and Democracy (or CITED) aims to gather input from political, civil rights and tech experts; educate voters on deep fakes and disinformation; and develop “unbiased, nonpartisan” regulatory policy recommendations, Jonathan Mehta Stein, California Common Cause executive director, told CalMatters Monday.
The institute is based in California for two reasons: The state is the tech hub of the nation, and it has often driven federal policy changes, he said.
The group picked Election Day to launch the center because it wants to remind voters that they are a year out from an “enormous consequential presidential election,” Stein said.
Stein, in the interview: “If you’re a conspiracy theorist who believes — for example — that the 2020 elections were stolen or that our elections are not secure, you can now create fake, but confirmatory evidence of your conspiracy. You can create a fake video of an elections official caught on tape, saying that vote-by-mail ballots are subject to fraud or voting machines are not secure. And you can substantiate any theory you want in a matter of moments.”
It’s Election Day in Shasta County — a county led by a Republican majority on the Board of Supervisors who, fueled by unfounded election fraud claims, abandoned the county’s Dominion voting machines and decided to hand count the ballots. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law last month limiting counties from hand counts, but the board chairperson said he believed the law did not apply to Shasta County.
Shasta County Clerk Cathy Darling Allen, a Democrat, disagrees, telling supervisors last week: “I am deeply disappointed by the chaos and division created by the actions of this Board. I will continue to serve our voters in a nonpartisan manner, but I reject efforts by members of this Board to berate me and my staff, who work tirelessly to facilitate effective democratic processes in this county.”
California Common Cause and other groups have called on Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s office to monitor the voting.
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