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SB 360: A ticket to the 21st century for California voting machines
150 150 Ed Coghlan

County voting systems in California are aging rapidly and the process for approving voting systems is doing little to help certify new innovative systems or to spur new approaches to voting system development.

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California Legislature notches a winning season
150 150 Jim Mayer

From CA Fwd’s perspective – nonpartisan, good governance – 2013 was a winning season, not a championship year, but steady progress.

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Data brings power to the people if it goes from information to insight
150 150 Mark Orcutt

Achieving such a transformation is not an easy task when you are faced with government information that is relatively manageable in size, but often overwhelmingly complex.

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This week in Realignment: September 13, 2013
150 150 Christopher Nelson

In three weeks, it has gone from head-butting to hand-shaking over exactly how to go about reducing California’s state prison population by another 8,500 inmates

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Future of California Elections share insights with bipartisan elections commission
150 150 Doug Chapin

Following the meeting, FOCE summarized the wide range of materials presented at the listening session in a report to the Commission that included excerpts and recommendations in each of these five areas.

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Voters to decide fate of California’s landmark public records law
150 150 Matthew Grant Anson

The passage of SCA 3 means California’s voters will be tasked with deciding next June whether to approve the measure as a constitutional amendment.

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