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The latest in California's mid-term elections.
9:18 p.m.
The first returns show a series of tight competitions for California House seats that could represent control of the room.
Democrats are trying to take control of seven GOP-controlled state districts, worn by Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
In key races on Tuesday, early returns showed that 15-term representative Dana Rohrabacher was separated by less than 100 votes with Democrat Harley Rouda in the 48th district of Orange County.
Democrats Katie Hill and Republican Representative Steven Knight were virtually tied in the 25th district north of Los Angeles.
And in the 45th district of Orange County, Republican Representative Mimi Walters was lightly standing against Democrat Katie Porter.
At the national level, the Democrats seemed poised for victory in the House, which would have the effect of spoiling President Donald Trump's agenda.
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9:08 p.m.
A California voting measure to broaden property tax relief for older homeowners who scour the trails very early.
With around 2.6 million votes counted on Tuesday, Proposition 5 is 56% to 44% late.
Under current law, seniors and seniors can transfer tax notices if their new home has a value equal to or less than the one they sell, and they can only do so once . The current law also limits transfers out of the country.
Proposal 5 would allow homeowners over age 55 to transfer their assessments to any new home, no matter the cost, anywhere in the state and as many times as they wish .
The unofficial office of California's legislative analysts said the move could result in annual revenue losses of about $ 1 billion for schools and local governments.
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21h
The Democrat Gavin Newsom has been elected governor of California, taking the helm of the state 's strong resistance to Trump' s administration policies on health care, immigration and immigration. environment.
Newsom's victory on Tuesday against Republican businessman John Cox means that a harsh critic of President Donald Trump – the current Gov. Jerry Brown – will be replaced by another critic in the ########################################################### 39, the most populous state in the country.
Newsom, who was Brown's lieutenant governor, promised to quickly boost housing construction, promote universal health care and help needy children.
As the mayor of San Francisco, Newsom has ordered the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
During the campaign, Cox is focused relentlessly on the high cost of living in California. But he could not defeat the significant advantage of Democrats among registered voters and their aversion to Trump, who supported Cox.
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21h
US Senator Dianne Feinstein is running for a fifth full term against Democratic compatriot Kevin de Leon.
Feinstein has about 53% of the votes with more than 2.8 million votes counted. She faces a Democratic colleague because of the California system that sends the two candidates who win the most votes in the general election.
Voters first sent Feinstein to Washington in 1992. At age 85, she is the oldest senator in the United States. She argued that her tenure in Washington made her an effective leader. De Leon tried to describe her too weak against President Donald Trump.
Republicans have expanded their majority in the US Senate.
Feinstein argued that it was difficult to be effective when Democrats are the minority party.
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21h
California voters tend to end the resetting of their clocks twice a year.
With nearly 2 million votes counted on Tuesday night, 61% of voters were in favor of adopting Proposition 7, the first step towards establishing a permanent summer hour in California .
The measure would also require a two-thirds vote of the state legislature and an amendment to the federal law to come into force.
Democratic Representative Kansen Chu, of San Jose, said he had sponsored it, because changing the clock twice a year is a tedious task.
The question was new in the minds of voters when they went to the polls.
California and most of the rest of the nation fell back by an hour on Sunday 's standard hour, gaining an extra hour of daylight but losing an hour in the evening.
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21h
A measure to allow better control of rents in California hangs significantly in the first returns.
Proposal 10 is losing double-digit Tuesday night with over 2.6 million votes counted.
The measure that would allow cities to extend rent control is one of the most important and costly issues, while California faces a massive housing shortage.
This would cancel a state law limiting rent control on apartments built after 1995, single-family homes and condominiums. It would also allow local laws to limit what homeowners can charge to new tenants.
Opponents argue that the proposal 10 would have reduced the housing supply by reducing the incentive for developers to build. Proponents say that allowing greater rent control would prevent people from leaving their homes.
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8:54 p.m.
A proposal to repeal a gas tax increase for transportation projects in California hangs in the early returns.
Proposal 6 won about 47 percent of the vote soon after polls closed on Tuesday with nearly 2 million votes counted.
The Republicans-backed move would cancel an increase in fuel taxes and vehicle royalties, which is expected to fund $ 5 billion a year in highway repair and transit improvements. Voter approval would also be required for any future increase in the tax on gasoline.
Republicans hoped that this measure would increase the turnout for GOP elections in contested congressional and state competitions. They say that California is too expensive and should spend its money more wisely.
The Democrat-led legislature passed the fuel tax increase last year. Leaders in the construction industry and unions oppose the repeal.
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8:45 p.m.
Democratic Attorney General Xavier Becerra leads GOP challenger Steven Bailey.
Bailey regularly dragged in polls ahead of Tuesday's election.
Secretary of State Alex Padilla is also in the lead. Padilla seeks reelection against Republican lawyer Mark Meuser.
In the race for lieutenant governor, Gavin Newsom, Eleni Kounalakis heads Ed Hernandez. They are both Democrats. Newsom is running for the governor.
In other competitions at the state level, voters choose the next heads of school, treasurer and controller.
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7:41 p.m.
A spokeswoman for Democratic Senate candidate Anna Caballero said the campaign was able to reach targeted voters despite the theft of computers, mobile phones and campaign documents in an office.
Someone broke into the parliamentary headquarters of parliamentarian Anna Caballero on Tuesday morning. She is running in a race in the Senate that should determine whether Democrats are reaching a qualified majority.
Campaign spokesperson Bob Sanders said cell phones should be used to call voters, while computers contained city maps, schedules and voter contact information. 10,000 election campaign coins to hang on the doors were also taken.
There were TVs and a microwave.
Sanders says the campaign has regrouped and the volunteers have started working several hours later.
Caballero's rival, Republican Rob Poythress, condemned the robbery.
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6:45 p.m.
A spokesperson for the elections estimates that the line in front of the registrar's office in Los Angeles County has about 300 to 400 people.
Brenda Duran of the Los Angeles County Registry Office and Clerk said that people outside the Norwalk office are signing up to vote.
Residents of California can register to vote on polling day and submit conditional ballots.
Duran says that election offices in other California counties have similar queues because of conditional voters.
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4:35 p.m.
A leading political data expert expects California's turnout to be close to 60%, which is very high for the mid-term elections but not extraordinary.
Paul Mitchell says it's because some countries, including Orange, have exciting races in Congress where voter turnout could be close to presidential levels.
But voters in other California counties are voting for a more regular list of state-wide functions as well as for 11 proposals.
He added that the participation rate across the state could range between 56% and 60%. He called the story of "two Californias".
Mitchell is Vice President of the non-partisan research firm Political Data, Inc.
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1:45 p.m.
Some voters in Los Angeles County wait up to two hours to vote on polling day.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles County Clerk said that the waiting line at his Norwalk headquarters was wrapping around the building and that waiting times were about two. hours Tuesday.
Clerk's spokesman Mike Sanchez was not able to immediately confirm the online comments of a Los Angeles Times reporter that some people were dropping out and no longer followed expectations. that others received tickets to be able to use the toilets or to restore oneself without losing their place.
This site is the only one in the vast county to allow voters to register and vote on polling day, which some have complained about on social media.
Sanchez says that he understands the frustration of some voters and that the registration and the same day vote are being extended throughout the county and will be ready by March 2020.
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12:55
A non-partisan group from a good government said it received nearly 800 calls from California voters struggling with problems in Tuesday's poll.
California Common Cause said the volume of calls is higher than the previous mid-term elections and could reflect a high turnout.
The appellants reported that Mark Twain Middle School polling station in Los Angeles had no voters' list at 11 am and that voters could not vote until 11:30 am. Voters at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles were invited to fill voting machines until 10 am
The Registrar-Registrar and the Los Angeles County Clerk did not immediately return a request for comment.
People with voting problems can call the emergency number 866-OUR-VOTE Election Protection.
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12:35
According to the Democrats, campaign documents and computers were taken early in the morning at a Merced County campaign office.
Emily Haden, president of the Merced County Central Democratic Committee, said the campaign for Senate candidate Anna Caballero was the most affected.
She added that the campaign mailings had been imported from another location and that burglary complicated the most important day of the campaign.
Bryan King, campaign director for Democratic Senators, told the Merced Sun-Star that each laptop had been taken to his office. He added that devices used to scan voter data and personal items such as mobile phones used to call voters had been taken.
Lt. Alan Ward of the police, Merced, told the newspaper that officers were called to the scene around 7:00 am Tuesday.
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11:45
Democratic presidential candidate Gavin Newsom voted in Tuesday's election.
Newsom arrived at a Masonic lodge in Larkspur, north of San Francisco, with his wife Jennifer and four children. Newsom held his 2 year old Dutch son mostly to visit the voting site, including while he was filling out his ballot.
Newsom told the press that he hoped to win the governor's leadership race, but that would not mean anything more if the Democrats did not get the American House back.
Newsom says it's "no exaggeration to say Trump has declared war on California" and urged state voters to go to the polls Tuesday.
Newsom is the big favorite to win the governor's race against Republican John Cox, who has never held elected office.
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Republican presidential candidate John Cox began his morning voting with a family breakfast and a tweet urging Californians to go to the polls.
Cox, who runs against Democratic lieutenant Gavin Newsom at Tuesday's election, has lunched with his family at Milton's Deli in Del Mar, just north of San Diego.
Before hiding, Cox tweeted a photo with his wife Sarah and one of his four daughters. The message called on Californians to vote and said "Change vs. status quo" with the hashtag, #HelpIsOnTheWay.
Newsom is the big favorite of the race, since the state has 3.8 million registered Republican voters less than the Democrats.
Cox has never been elected.
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7:30
The Democrats' total domination of the state The legislature probably boils down to a single seat in the Senate.
Republicans are trying to keep the siege abandoned by Senator Anthony Cannella in the Central Valley in California.
Democrats base their hopes on Tuesday's election of parliamentarian Anna Caballero as Republicans sent Madera County supervisor, Rob Poythress.
Democrats need 27 votes for a two-thirds majority in a 40-member Senate and have 26. They need 54 votes in the 80-member Assembly and 55.
The largest battle in the Assembly is the seat of Sabrina Cervantes, a member of the Riverside Democratic County Assembly.
A qualified majority in both houses would allow Democrats to raise their taxes without the vote of Republicans.
Republicans have shown their opposition to the rise in the gasoline tax last year, while Democrats have reacted against President Donald Trump.
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California voters are considering a measure requiring all eggs sold in that state to come from cageless hens by 2022.
Known as the Cruelty to Farm Animals Act, proposal 12 would set minimum requirements for the size of cages or pens housing breeding pigs and calves raised for veal. It would also prohibit the sale of California veal or pork from non-compliant farms.
Supporters say the move is a step toward more humane farming practices, while opponents say it does not go far enough.
Proposal 12 seeks to build on another voting measure passed in 2008 – Proposal 2, which prohibited California farmers from keeping the same animals in tiny cages, but did not specify a specific size for the cages. the pens.
He is supported by the Humane Society of the United States and a number of animal rights groups.
Opponents of the measure include animal welfare groups such as People for the Ethical Treatment, which do not go far enough to prevent animal cruelty.
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It's time for Californians to decide whether or not they want to stop resetting their clocks twice a year.
Voters will vote Tuesday on proposal 7, the first step in the effort to create an early hour of the year.
The Democratic representative of Kansen Chu, of San Jose, said that he had sponsored the measure because changing the time is a tedious task.
Mr. Chu also explained that this measure increased the risk of car accidents and heart attacks in the spring, when people lose an hour of sleep.
Opponents say that changing now would cause more severe headaches.
If voters approve the measure, it will still require a two-thirds vote of the California legislature and an amendment to the federal law.
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Voters will decide whether California will borrow nearly $ 9 billion for water infrastructure projects in the state where its scarcity often pits city dwellers, farmers, fishermen and environmentalists.
Proposal 3 on Tuesday's vote would direct money toward the storage and repair of dams, watershed and fisheries improvements, as well as habitat protection and restoration.
A large portion of the $ 8.9 billion would be allocated to conservatories and state parks for watershed restoration and protection, as well as to non-profit organizations and local agencies for river walks. There would also be money to meet the standards for drinking water.
The measure is supported by agriculture and water associations and by those dedicated to the conservation of wetlands, fish and wildlife. Opponents say it benefits special interests while diverting money from other programs.
This is the largest proposed water link since the beginning of analyst monitoring in 1970.
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6:15
Californians are in the process of repealing an increase in fuel and vehicle taxes, which is expected to fund $ 52 billion in transportation projects over 10 years.
Proposal 6 on Tuesday's vote is backed by Republicans who say that life in California has become too expensive and that the state should spend its money more effectively.
Construction industry leaders and unions opposed to the initiative argue that $ 5 billion a year is essential to repair aging highways and bridges and improve transit.
The legislature, led by the Democrats, passed the tax measure last year.
The repeal initiative proposed by San Diego radio host Carl DeMaio was hailed by Republican congressional candidates for increasing GOP voter turnout in the state where President Donald Trump got only weak approval rate.
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Californians will decide whether to allow the expansion of rent control as a solution to the state housing crisis.
Proposal 10 would give local governments greater flexibility to adopt or strengthen rent control, as the state faces a massive housing shortage and rising rents.
This is one of the most expensive and controversial points of Tuesday's vote.
The measure would override a state law prohibiting rent control on apartments built after 1995, single-family homes and condominiums. The same law also prevents cities and counties from telling homeowners what they can blame on new tenants.
More than a dozen California cities, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, already have some control over rents on their older properties.
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California voters are considering a voting measure to limit profits in dialysis clinics that provide essential care to people whose kidneys are not functioning properly.
Proposal 8 is the most expensive initiative facing California voters Tuesday as they go to the polls. A union of health workers funded the $ 18 million campaign. The dialysis companies spent 111 million extraordinary dollars to kill him.
The measure would limit benefits to 15% of what clinics spend on patient care and quality improvement. Proponents say this will push dialysis companies to invest more in patient care. Opponents say it will force clinics to cut services or shut down.
Dialysis patients generally undergo treatments that last for hours three times a week. Dialysis machines mimic kidney function by filtering patients' blood outside their body.
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Ending a low-profile, high-stakes campaign, California voters decide to extend property tax relief to older homeowners who move.
Proposal 5 on Tuesday's vote would bring significant benefits to people over 55 when they move and a potentially significant impact on school and local government revenues, which depend heavily on property taxes.
Under current law, seniors and seniors can transfer tax notices if their new home has a value equal to or less than the one they sell, and they can only do so once . The current law also limits transfers out of the country.
Proposal 5 would allow homeowners over age 55 to transfer their valuations to any new home, regardless of cost, anywhere in the state as many times as they wish.
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A Democratic heavyweight faces a Republican businessman who has never held an elective position in the race for the governor of California.
The fight between Democratic governor Gavin Newsom and Republican John Cox will determine the future of the state's aggressive resistance to President Donald Trump.
Newsom is heavily favored in a state where the GOP has 3.8 million fewer registered voters. He is committed to maintaining a fighting stance with Trump and promoting universal health care.
Newsom is best known for issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples while he was mayor of San Francisco, years before his legalization.
Cox is focused relentlessly on the high cost of living in California. He attributes to Newsom and the Democrats, who control the legislature and all state offices, high costs.
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Californians choose between two Democrats in the US Senate competition.
US Senator-in-Office Dianne Feinstein faces a challenge from state senator Kevin de Leon in Tuesday's vote.
A victory of Feinstein would maintain the democratic political order of the state. A victory for Leon would be a stunning surprise.
He said California deserved a new voice in Washington, more willing to fight for progressive values.
Feinstein says that she has the experience necessary to get things done for California and a track record to prove it.
At age 85, Feinstein is the oldest US senator. De Leon, who is 51, is not a direct problem of his age. But he pleaded for a "new voice" and a "new vision" in Washington.
Feinstein was first elected to the Senate in 1992.
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A series of battlefield districts in California are at the center of the fight for control of the United States House.
Democrats must claim 23 seats in the country to take over the House and have targeted seven districts of the California House held by the GOP, led by Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Among Republicans in danger at Tuesday's elections: Representative Dana Rohrabacher in Orange County, who is seeking a 16th term.
At stake, long-term political trends have seen California diversify and become more democratic.
Democrats hold 39 to 14 seats in the state House, where the party controls all state offices and the legislature.
The election comes after a campaign season defined by divisions between President Donald Trump and the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment.
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Congressman Duncan Hunter fights to keep his seat in the San Diego District after being charged with corruption.
Hunter will face Tuesday his first 29-year-old Democratic challenger in a race that has drawn attention to the Republican's most congressional district of Southern California.
Ammar Campa-Najjar, a former head of the Obama administration, was largely unknown in the San Diego district where Hunter took over from his father 10 years ago.
The race became more competitive after Hunter and his wife were indicted by a grand jury in August for illegally spending more than $ 250,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses ranging from tequila to family travel.
The hunters pleaded not guilty.
The 41-year-old former Marine is one of two members of the US Congress to be re-elected while indicted, a feat rare in US history.
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