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"content": "\u003cp>This Human Voter Guide segment is the fourth in our\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/topics/human-voter-guide\"> \u003c/a>series\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/topics/human-voter-guide\"> \u003c/a>on\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/topics/human-voter-guide\"> \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/\">Take Two\u003c/a>. You can also \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/topics/human-voter-guide\">read previous segments in the series\u003c/a> to find more questions and answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a question about voting or the elections, you can leave a voice mail or text at 323-538-5722. You can also leave your question in the comment box below or tweet it with the hashtag #humanvoterguide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: My question is if I'm registered to vote by mail and received a ballot already, but decided I want to vote in person instead, can I do so? And do I have to do anything special?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, you can vote in person at your polling location even if you've received a vote by mail ballot already. One tip: when you go into your polling place bring your vote by mail ballot with you. When you arrive, you’ll surrender that ballot so that you can vote in person.\u003cbr>\n \u003cbr>\nBringing your vote by mail ballot with you will ensure that you don’t have to cast a provisional ballot (provisional ballots are ballots that are given when there are questions about a voter's eligibility). \u003cbr>\n \u003cbr>\nAnother tip: If you’re a no party preference voter and you want to cast a ballot for the Democratic presidential primary, remember to ask for a “crossover ballot” when you go to your polling location. If you want more information on crossover ballots, check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/05/25/61003/human-voter-guide-everything-you-need-to-know-abou/\">last week's segment\u003c/a>. \u003cbr>\n \u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Q: I'm a registered voter with \"no party preference\" here in California. I've already mailed in my mail-in ballot but it wasn't a crossover ballot. Is there still any way I can vote in our Democratic primary?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n \u003cbr>\nThis voter is referring to the fact that California's no party preference ballot does not include presidential candidates. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several election officials weighed in on this question, and tell us that the official answer is no. Once you’ve mailed in your ballot, it’s considered a ballot that’s been cast and there’s no way to submit a separate vote for president. If you voted via the no party preference ballot instead of the crossover ballot, and you’ve already mailed it in, you're technically out of luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're in this situation and upset, it's worth a call to your county elections office. State law favors voters when it comes to elections and occasionally exceptions are made to help people vote. You can find \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/county-elections-offices/\">a contact list online\u003c/a>. \u003cbr>\n \u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Q: Somewhere I thought I heard that mail-in ballots are only counted when elections are close. Is that true?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n \u003cbr>\nFor this question, we turned to Kim Alexander, she’s the president and founder of The California Voter Foundation. (Helpful aside: Alexander has \u003ca href=\"http://www.calvoter.org/voter/faq.html#abs\">a question and answer page on her website\u003c/a> that addresses voting quandaries.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know that question goes back to the 2000 election. It was sort of this urban legend that went around that you know, if the election is not close, your vote by mail ballot won’t get counted,\" she said. \"But in California, every vote by mail ballot that’s cast that can be counted is counted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander explained that in California ballots are counted on election day in waves. The first ballots counted are vote by mail ballots that arrive early. They're counted as soon as the polls close. Next up are ballots cast at polling places, followed by vote by mail ballots that arrive later. The last ballots counted are provisional ballots — this is done to make sure there are not duplicate votes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: Where do you recommend I go for election candidate information?”\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n \u003cbr>\nThere are a lot of good resources. Here are a few tips:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>KPCC \u003ca href=\"http://votersedge.kpcc.org/\">has a voter guide\u003c/a>. It's helpful because you can search via your zip code and get tailored information that is specific to your ballot.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>There are some helpful smartphone apps that have been developed. One is called Voter, we mentioned \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/12/14/56194/as-millennials-interest-in-voting-wanes-solutions/\">it in a story that aired late last year\u003c/a>. It matches you with candidates who align with your political views by using the Tinder \"swipe right for yes, swipe left for no\" method. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Websites like \u003ca href=\"http://votesmart.org/\">Vote Smart\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtrack.us/\">GovTrack\u003c/a> are also helpful and allow you to track candidates' views. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you are looking for information on judicial candidates, check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacba.org/docs/default-source/jeec-reports/jeec-report-2016.pdf\">the Los Angeles County Bar Association's ratings\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One last tip:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re confused about voting by mail, or you want to get a jump on voting before Tuesday, remember that no matter what county you live in, you can go in person to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/county-elections-offices/\">your county registrar\u003c/a> and vote. Just show up any time today through Tuesday during regular business hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you need help with any voting problems you can also call the statewide voter help line: 1-800-345-VOTE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We're in the middle of one of the most contentious elections we've seen in a long time, so there's a lot of interest in voting this year. But there's also a lot of confusion. 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"content": "\u003cp>California’s November ballot will be jammed with statewide propositions, but there’s just one measure in the June primary. Proposition 50, which stems from scandals that hit the state Senate, would allow the state Legislature to suspend lawmakers without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story behind Prop. 50 starts in 2013, when the FBI raided the office of Democratic state \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/18711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senator Ron Calderon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/267294508″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“According to a sealed affidavit obtained exclusively by \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/30/exclusive-hollywoodsting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Jazeera’s\u003c/a> investigative unit, the senator is for sale: a politician willing to influence legislation in exchange for money,” reported Al Jazeera at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/calderon-dynasty.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Jazeera America\u003c/a> would later report, the FBI accused Calderon of accepted tens of thousands of dollars in bribes — and Calderon was indicted in February 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later came the conviction of a different Democratic senator, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/03/03/wright-case-hits-close-to-home-for-many-calif-lawmakers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rod Wright\u003c/a>, for perjury and voter fraud — living outside his district in violation of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10974683 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Former state Sen. 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They remained on indefinite leaves of absence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then — just one month later — came a third Democratic senator, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/03/26/report-state-sen-leland-yee-indicted-on-bribery,-corruption-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leland Yee\u003c/a> was arrested for bribery, corruption and gun running — all while pushing legislation against violent video games and guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Steinberg, that was enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”TbJcfLVhuM0vsrVTIdUNag6A9A1sCmEr”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the concern out there. I disagree with it, but I understand it,“ he told the Senate in late March of 2014 as he asked members to suspend three of their colleagues. “One is an anomaly, two is a coincidence. 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Right now, it takes a two-thirds vote to expel a lawmaker, but just a simple majority to suspend one with pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a really good example of where they think they need one more tool to protect the dignity and preserve the public trust in their institution,” says Jim Mayer with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafwd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Forward\u003c/a>, a non-profit advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10974685 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Former state Sen. Leland Yee, who pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-400x262.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-960x629.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Sen. Leland Yee, who pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says it’s incredibly rare that the Legislature must suspend or expel a lawmaker — and it may never happen again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if it does, the Legislature would have the tool,” says Mayer. “So it’s a simple choice for voters: Do you want the Legislature to have the ability to suspend them without pay, or not?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Senator Joel Anderson disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really,” he says, “those people shouldn’t be suspended; they should be expelled. If you cannot perform the duty of voting for a bill, for whatever reason, then you need to go home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he worries about the possible intimidation of lawmakers who can’t afford to lose their paychecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will have a chilling effect,” Anderson says, sitting in his Capitol office. “Can you imagine telling a legislator, we’re gonna dock your pay for two weeks because you spoke out?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 50 has drawn very little attention this election cycle. That’s a stark contrast to when three California senators ran afoul of the law — which is what led to Prop. 50 in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California’s November ballot will be jammed with statewide propositions, but there’s just one measure in the June primary. Proposition 50, which stems from scandals that hit the state Senate, would allow the state Legislature to suspend lawmakers without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story behind Prop. 50 starts in 2013, when the FBI raided the office of Democratic state \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/18711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senator Ron Calderon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/267294508″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/267294508″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“According to a sealed affidavit obtained exclusively by \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/30/exclusive-hollywoodsting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Jazeera’s\u003c/a> investigative unit, the senator is for sale: a politician willing to influence legislation in exchange for money,” reported Al Jazeera at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/calderon-dynasty.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Jazeera America\u003c/a> would later report, the FBI accused Calderon of accepted tens of thousands of dollars in bribes — and Calderon was indicted in February 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later came the conviction of a different Democratic senator, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/03/03/wright-case-hits-close-to-home-for-many-calif-lawmakers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rod Wright\u003c/a>, for perjury and voter fraud — living outside his district in violation of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10974683 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Former state Sen. Rod Wright, convicted of perjury and voter fraud.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Sen. Rod Wright, convicted of perjury and voter fraud. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Senate.CA.Gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A handful of Republicans tried to expel Wright. They said a convicted felon has no place in the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Democrats blocked it. Then-President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg argued the irreversible action of expulsion was premature — both for Wright, who was trying to overturn his conviction, and for Calderon, who had yet to face trial. They remained on indefinite leaves of absence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then — just one month later — came a third Democratic senator, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/03/26/report-state-sen-leland-yee-indicted-on-bribery,-corruption-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leland Yee\u003c/a> was arrested for bribery, corruption and gun running — all while pushing legislation against violent video games and guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Steinberg, that was enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the concern out there. I disagree with it, but I understand it,“ he told the Senate in late March of 2014 as he asked members to suspend three of their colleagues. “One is an anomaly, two is a coincidence. Three?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the Senate \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/28/state-senate-suspends-leland-yee-ron-calderon-roderick-wright/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted to suspend Calderon, Wright and Yee\u003c/a> — two days after Yee’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/const-toc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Constitution\u003c/a> does not allow the Legislature to strip a lawmaker of pay, the three suspended senators still got their taxpayer-funded salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So later that year, the Legislature nearly unanimously placed the constitutional amendment on the June 2016 ballot that’s now called Prop. 50. It would allow the Assembly or Senate to suspend one of its members — with or without pay — with a two-thirds vote. Right now, it takes a two-thirds vote to expel a lawmaker, but just a simple majority to suspend one with pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a really good example of where they think they need one more tool to protect the dignity and preserve the public trust in their institution,” says Jim Mayer with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafwd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Forward\u003c/a>, a non-profit advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10974685 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Former state Sen. Leland Yee, who pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-400x262.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-960x629.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Sen. Leland Yee, who pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says it’s incredibly rare that the Legislature must suspend or expel a lawmaker — and it may never happen again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if it does, the Legislature would have the tool,” says Mayer. “So it’s a simple choice for voters: Do you want the Legislature to have the ability to suspend them without pay, or not?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Senator Joel Anderson disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really,” he says, “those people shouldn’t be suspended; they should be expelled. If you cannot perform the duty of voting for a bill, for whatever reason, then you need to go home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he worries about the possible intimidation of lawmakers who can’t afford to lose their paychecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will have a chilling effect,” Anderson says, sitting in his Capitol office. “Can you imagine telling a legislator, we’re gonna dock your pay for two weeks because you spoke out?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 50 has drawn very little attention this election cycle. That’s a stark contrast to when three California senators ran afoul of the law — which is what led to Prop. 50 in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In her campaign for Barbara Boxer’s U.S. Senate seat, California Attorney General Kamala Harris often mentions the record settlement her office negotiated with five of the largest mortgage lenders after the home foreclosure crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal that brought about $20 billion in relief to California won national media attention for Harris. But the mortgage meltdown continues affecting homeowners to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This is not my home.'\u003ccite>Rosario Frisse\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the home Rosario Frisse rents in a quiet neighborhood in Antioch -- a city about 45 miles east of San Francisco -- there aren't many decorations on her walls. Even though she's been living there for a few years, there are unpacked boxes on her patio outside and more in the garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not my home,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home she once owned sits about a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Frisse lost the house after her adjustable mortgage was raised to an amount she couldn’t afford. Her husband was working with the bank to modify the loan. At one point a deal looked promising and they were waiting on an offer from the lender, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The offer never came.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the lender foreclosed on Frisse's house and it was sold at auction, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year, 632,573 Californians received a foreclosure filing, including a default notice, scheduled foreclosure auction or bank repossession, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.realtytrac.com/landing/2009-year-end-foreclosure-report.html\">RealtyTrac\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10968406\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png\" alt=\"Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national settlement that was announced in 2012 was supposed to provide some debt relief to homeowners and fix the way banks communicated and worked with people like Frisse, whose homes were in jeopardy of being foreclosed. \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Attorney General Harris was crucial to negotiating the national settlement's terms, since California had the country's highest number of foreclosures. She even refused to sign onto an initial deal because it wasn't enough money. But eventually she would settle.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harris Was In a No-Win Situation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Harris played a bad hand relatively well,\" said journalist \u003ca href=\"http://daviddayen.tumblr.com/\">David Dayen\u003c/a>, whose new book, \"Chain of Title,\" examines the mortgage crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dayen also followed the national settlement closely and is part of the group of critics who believe the banks should have been prosecuted. There was certainly enough evidence, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was finally a bit of leverage over the financial industry on behalf of homeowners that we did not see at any other point in this crisis, certainly not to this degree,\" said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecuting would take time. Plus, even if Harris wanted to fight the banks, there needed to be a bigger coalition -- not just her, said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266189765\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Californians were losing their homes. In 2012, Harris and 48 other attorneys general settled with five of the largest mortgage lenders, including Ally Financial, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the banks provided about $20 billion in relief to California. The lenders were credited for providing certain types of relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $9.2 billion went to short sales. That’s when people still lose their home but the impact is less damaging to the homeowner's credit than a foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around $4.5 billion went to debt relief on the second mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best possible type of relief homeowners got was debt relief on the first mortgage -- known as first mortgage principal reduction -- which attempted to bring the value of the loan down to the value of the home. Roughly 33,000 homeowners received an average reduction of $137,280.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for all the settlement relief that homeowners received to help them stay in their homes, the smallest number got a first mortgage reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most widely distributed relief, which was given to about 200,000 homeowners, was the $1,500 in restitution that Rosario Frisse got.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was like a slap in the face for a lot of us,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967320\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rosario Frisse lives in a rental home in Antioch, not far from the home she lost from foreclosure.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosario Frisse lives in a rental home in Antioch, not far from the home she lost from foreclosure. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Than Just the Cash\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the best things Harris did, according to Dayen, was to appoint UC Irvine professor Katherine Porter to lead the special monitor program. Her job was to hold the lenders accountable over the settlement period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I took calls on day one,\" said Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, her office responded to over 5,000 complaints. A website was quickly created for homeowners to check their eligibility in the settlement -- something that wasn't done at the national level. Porter and others also spoke with attorneys and judges who needed help understanding the settlement's terms, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter told KQED the media were focused on the billions of dollars in settlement money, but Harris’ real achievement was the reforms she was pushing for simultaneously in the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was passed in 2012, the \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/hbor\">Homeowner Bill of Rights\u003c/a> meant that all banks and lenders had to obey the new rules, not just the top five lenders in the settlement. The reforms meant there is now a single point of contact to prevent miscommunication. There are restrictions on dual tracking, which prevents foreclosure on homeowners who are in the process of modifying their loans. And homeowners were given the ability to sue lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The servicing standards helped everybody. Every homeowner,\" said Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, banks and lenders were making more of an effort to change under the settlement, she said. But when housing counselors were asked how the banks are doing now, four years later, some have said lenders are still violating the reforms that were intended to be permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my view that's grounds for new prosecution,\" said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10968547\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1419px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10968547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg\" alt=\"California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference in 2013.\" width=\"1419\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg 1419w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-400x541.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-800x1082.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-1180x1597.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-960x1299.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1419px) 100vw, 1419px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference in 2013. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the national settlement, Harris has reached other smaller related agreements with lenders. A spokesman for Harris’ U.S. Senate campaign said she would continue her fight to prevent the risky practices that caused the financial collapse, but he declined to give specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has used her power in other ways. She recently wrote a brief on behalf of a homeowner in a case that went to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/05/23/kamala-harris-catches-ride-on-populist-wave-in-california-senate-primary/\">California Supreme Court\u003c/a>. She also put her shoulder into a law that would cover \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/surviving-spouses-can-have-their-homes-foreclosed-on-if-they-arent-listed-on-the-mortgage\">widows, widowers and other survivors\u003c/a> in the Homeowner Bill of Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Settlement Is Hard to Measure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is still no true accounting of whether the government did enough to help struggling borrowers during the foreclosure crisis\u003cb>,\u003c/b> according to Carolina Reid, a UC Berkeley professor who studies the impacts the foreclosure crisis had on communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal data exist on who gets loans, and we know that African- American and Latino families \u003ca href=\"http://www.responsiblelending.org/mortgage-lending/research-analysis/Lost-Ground-2011.pdf\">disproportionately got the worst loans\u003c/a>. But we don’t know much about the families who get loan modifications, even those who were helped from the settlement. There’s no race or neighborhood data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have been great to look at each of the loan modifications and understand who got them -- and, more importantly, who didn’t,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of mortgage lending to African-American and Latino families has dropped since the recession. Banks are almost too cautious in some cases and not lending to some families who would make great homeowners, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosario Frisse saw some friends and neighbors keep their homes because of the settlement. It was a celebration when they did, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2009, the year she lost her house, she fought hard on behalf of homeowners. She caravaned with a group called Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization to Washington, D.C., to protest the banks, and she spoke at rallies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn't help her save her own home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frisse said her husband now wants to move back to Missouri, where there's family. She wants to stay in California. But at the same time there are no pictures on her walls. And there are still unpacked boxes that tell her she’s not home yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 KQED. To see more election coverage, visit \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/election-2016\">kqed.org/election2016\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In her campaign for Barbara Boxer’s U.S. Senate seat, California Attorney General Kamala Harris often mentions the record settlement her office negotiated with five of the largest mortgage lenders after the home foreclosure crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal that brought about $20 billion in relief to California won national media attention for Harris. But the mortgage meltdown continues affecting homeowners to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This is not my home.'\u003ccite>Rosario Frisse\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the home Rosario Frisse rents in a quiet neighborhood in Antioch -- a city about 45 miles east of San Francisco -- there aren't many decorations on her walls. Even though she's been living there for a few years, there are unpacked boxes on her patio outside and more in the garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not my home,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home she once owned sits about a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Frisse lost the house after her adjustable mortgage was raised to an amount she couldn’t afford. Her husband was working with the bank to modify the loan. At one point a deal looked promising and they were waiting on an offer from the lender, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The offer never came.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the lender foreclosed on Frisse's house and it was sold at auction, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year, 632,573 Californians received a foreclosure filing, including a default notice, scheduled foreclosure auction or bank repossession, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.realtytrac.com/landing/2009-year-end-foreclosure-report.html\">RealtyTrac\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10968406\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png\" alt=\"Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national settlement that was announced in 2012 was supposed to provide some debt relief to homeowners and fix the way banks communicated and worked with people like Frisse, whose homes were in jeopardy of being foreclosed. \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Attorney General Harris was crucial to negotiating the national settlement's terms, since California had the country's highest number of foreclosures. She even refused to sign onto an initial deal because it wasn't enough money. But eventually she would settle.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harris Was In a No-Win Situation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Harris played a bad hand relatively well,\" said journalist \u003ca href=\"http://daviddayen.tumblr.com/\">David Dayen\u003c/a>, whose new book, \"Chain of Title,\" examines the mortgage crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dayen also followed the national settlement closely and is part of the group of critics who believe the banks should have been prosecuted. There was certainly enough evidence, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was finally a bit of leverage over the financial industry on behalf of homeowners that we did not see at any other point in this crisis, certainly not to this degree,\" said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecuting would take time. Plus, even if Harris wanted to fight the banks, there needed to be a bigger coalition -- not just her, said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266189765&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266189765'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Californians were losing their homes. In 2012, Harris and 48 other attorneys general settled with five of the largest mortgage lenders, including Ally Financial, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the banks provided about $20 billion in relief to California. The lenders were credited for providing certain types of relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $9.2 billion went to short sales. That’s when people still lose their home but the impact is less damaging to the homeowner's credit than a foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around $4.5 billion went to debt relief on the second mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best possible type of relief homeowners got was debt relief on the first mortgage -- known as first mortgage principal reduction -- which attempted to bring the value of the loan down to the value of the home. Roughly 33,000 homeowners received an average reduction of $137,280.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for all the settlement relief that homeowners received to help them stay in their homes, the smallest number got a first mortgage reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most widely distributed relief, which was given to about 200,000 homeowners, was the $1,500 in restitution that Rosario Frisse got.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was like a slap in the face for a lot of us,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967320\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rosario Frisse lives in a rental home in Antioch, not far from the home she lost from foreclosure.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosario Frisse lives in a rental home in Antioch, not far from the home she lost from foreclosure. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Than Just the Cash\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the best things Harris did, according to Dayen, was to appoint UC Irvine professor Katherine Porter to lead the special monitor program. Her job was to hold the lenders accountable over the settlement period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I took calls on day one,\" said Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, her office responded to over 5,000 complaints. A website was quickly created for homeowners to check their eligibility in the settlement -- something that wasn't done at the national level. Porter and others also spoke with attorneys and judges who needed help understanding the settlement's terms, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter told KQED the media were focused on the billions of dollars in settlement money, but Harris’ real achievement was the reforms she was pushing for simultaneously in the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was passed in 2012, the \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/hbor\">Homeowner Bill of Rights\u003c/a> meant that all banks and lenders had to obey the new rules, not just the top five lenders in the settlement. The reforms meant there is now a single point of contact to prevent miscommunication. There are restrictions on dual tracking, which prevents foreclosure on homeowners who are in the process of modifying their loans. And homeowners were given the ability to sue lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The servicing standards helped everybody. Every homeowner,\" said Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, banks and lenders were making more of an effort to change under the settlement, she said. But when housing counselors were asked how the banks are doing now, four years later, some have said lenders are still violating the reforms that were intended to be permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my view that's grounds for new prosecution,\" said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10968547\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1419px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10968547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg\" alt=\"California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference in 2013.\" width=\"1419\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg 1419w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-400x541.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-800x1082.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-1180x1597.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-960x1299.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1419px) 100vw, 1419px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference in 2013. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the national settlement, Harris has reached other smaller related agreements with lenders. A spokesman for Harris’ U.S. Senate campaign said she would continue her fight to prevent the risky practices that caused the financial collapse, but he declined to give specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has used her power in other ways. She recently wrote a brief on behalf of a homeowner in a case that went to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/05/23/kamala-harris-catches-ride-on-populist-wave-in-california-senate-primary/\">California Supreme Court\u003c/a>. She also put her shoulder into a law that would cover \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/surviving-spouses-can-have-their-homes-foreclosed-on-if-they-arent-listed-on-the-mortgage\">widows, widowers and other survivors\u003c/a> in the Homeowner Bill of Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Settlement Is Hard to Measure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is still no true accounting of whether the government did enough to help struggling borrowers during the foreclosure crisis\u003cb>,\u003c/b> according to Carolina Reid, a UC Berkeley professor who studies the impacts the foreclosure crisis had on communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal data exist on who gets loans, and we know that African- American and Latino families \u003ca href=\"http://www.responsiblelending.org/mortgage-lending/research-analysis/Lost-Ground-2011.pdf\">disproportionately got the worst loans\u003c/a>. But we don’t know much about the families who get loan modifications, even those who were helped from the settlement. There’s no race or neighborhood data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have been great to look at each of the loan modifications and understand who got them -- and, more importantly, who didn’t,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of mortgage lending to African-American and Latino families has dropped since the recession. Banks are almost too cautious in some cases and not lending to some families who would make great homeowners, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosario Frisse saw some friends and neighbors keep their homes because of the settlement. It was a celebration when they did, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2009, the year she lost her house, she fought hard on behalf of homeowners. She caravaned with a group called Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization to Washington, D.C., to protest the banks, and she spoke at rallies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn't help her save her own home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frisse said her husband now wants to move back to Missouri, where there's family. She wants to stay in California. But at the same time there are no pictures on her walls. And there are still unpacked boxes that tell her she’s not home yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 KQED. To see more election coverage, visit \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/election-2016\">kqed.org/election2016\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As state election officials report surging voter interest in the June 7 primary, a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1199\">poll\u003c/a> from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/home.asp\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a> shows that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has closed the gap against Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266022985\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among likely voters in the Democratic primary, the PPIC poll shows Clinton and Sanders essentially tied in California, with Clinton winning 46 percent support to 44 percent for Sanders. That’s within the poll’s margin of error.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is clearly bad news for Hillary Clinton,\" said UC San Diego political science professor Thad Kousser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even now that she's functionally clinched the Democratic nomination for president, she still doesn't have Democratic voters solidifying behind her,\" Kousser added.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This is clearly bad news for Hillary Clinton.'\u003ccite>Thad Kousser, UC San Diego\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Clinton does best among Latinos and voters who are 45 and older. Sanders has the edge with younger voters and independent voters who have no party preference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PPIC president and survey director Mark Baldassare says \u003cem>those\u003c/em> nonpartisans are the voters who will likely determine the outcome of the June 7 primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Independent voters can be the difference makers in the Democratic presidential primary in ways that independent voters in other states have been the difference makers in the Republican presidential primaries,” says Baldassare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"9HeMngwKytdXoECAOsiLOzSaZFCrDZfp\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a catch, though. While nonpartisans \u003cem>can\u003c/em> vote in the Democratic primary, they have to ask for a Democratic ballot by mailing in a request to their local elections office or exchanging their ballot without the Democratic presidential candidates at their polling place on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In hypothetical head-to-head fall matchups, both Clinton and Sanders lead likely Republican nominee Donald Trump. Clinton leads Trump by 10 points, 49 to 39 percent. Sanders does even better, besting Trump by 17 points, 53 to 36 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in the relatively sleepy U.S. Senate race, Democrats Kamala Harris and Loretta Sanchez appear headed for a fall matchup. Attorney General Harris leads congresswoman Sanchez 27 to 19 percent. Three Republicans running are all below 10 percent, while 31 percent of voters say they’re still undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That race is far from decided. But if Harris and Sanchez finish one-two on June 7 as expected, the fall runoff will be fascinating. The PPIC poll shows Harris leading Sanchez 34 to 26 percent. Among likely voters in the June primary, 24 percent said they wouldn’t bother voting if the Senate race comes down to two Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris-800x364.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Loretta Sanchez (L) and Attorney General Kamala Harris. \" width=\"800\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris-800x364.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris-400x182.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris-1180x537.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris-960x437.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Loretta Sanchez (L) and Attorney General Kamala Harris. \u003ccite>(Tommaso Boddi and Jason Merritt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Secretary of State Alex Padilla reported 1.8 million voter registrations or registration updates (such as political change of party or address) took place on the \u003ca href=\"http://registertovote.ca.gov/\">online voter registration website\u003c/a> since Jan. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla calls the lead-up to the midnight Monday deadline “the most online registration activity this year, and the second-highest total in the nearly four-year history of the online registration site.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secretary of state’s office said Californians 25 and younger accounted for 42 percent of the voter registration activity. Assuming they follow through and cast ballots in the Democratic primary, it could provide a boost to Bernie Sanders, who does best among younger voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://politicaldata.com/category/news/\">Paul Mitchell\u003c/a>, who crunches voter data and sells the analysis to campaigns, notes the registration surge has benefited the California Democratic Party far more than the GOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"jmaaTQSOOQtsbYjTIiapb2g5BE3jKG1R\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No question all this interest in voting is great for democracy. But some worry that local election officials aren’t prepared for the onslaught of ballots likely to arrive on or before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If this is your first time voting, this is a tough time to make your entry into the voting process,\" says Kim Alexander of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calvoter.org/about/kimbio.html\">California Voter Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to who can and cannot vote in the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries, Alexander notes that “we have really confusing primary participation rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only registered Republicans can vote for Donald Trump or one of the other Republicans on the presidential ballot. The state Democratic Party allows voters with “no party preference” to cast ballots for Clinton or Sanders, but only if they specifically request a Democratic ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But analyst Mitchell says it appears most nonpartisan voters aren’t doing that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Los Angeles County 91 percent of the ballots mailed to nonpartisan voters had no presidential candidates on it,” says Mitchell. “And 85 percent of ballots sent statewide to nonpartisan or independent voters have no presidential candidates on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mitchell and Alexander made their comments earlier this week on KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s still time for independent voters to request a Democratic ballot, and they can even do that at their polling place on Election Day. Still, the data suggest a lot of confusion out there with little time to fix it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's secretary of state maintains a voter information hotline at 800-345-VOTE (8683) to answer questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of California Counts, a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright KQED 2016. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts\">Read more in this series\u003c/a> and let us know your thoughts on Twitter using the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23iamsouthla&src=typd\">#\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CACounts&src=typd\">CACounts\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As state election officials report surging voter interest in the June 7 primary, a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1199\">poll\u003c/a> from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/home.asp\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a> shows that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has closed the gap against Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266022985&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266022985'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among likely voters in the Democratic primary, the PPIC poll shows Clinton and Sanders essentially tied in California, with Clinton winning 46 percent support to 44 percent for Sanders. That’s within the poll’s margin of error.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is clearly bad news for Hillary Clinton,\" said UC San Diego political science professor Thad Kousser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even now that she's functionally clinched the Democratic nomination for president, she still doesn't have Democratic voters solidifying behind her,\" Kousser added.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This is clearly bad news for Hillary Clinton.'\u003ccite>Thad Kousser, UC San Diego\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Clinton does best among Latinos and voters who are 45 and older. Sanders has the edge with younger voters and independent voters who have no party preference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PPIC president and survey director Mark Baldassare says \u003cem>those\u003c/em> nonpartisans are the voters who will likely determine the outcome of the June 7 primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Independent voters can be the difference makers in the Democratic presidential primary in ways that independent voters in other states have been the difference makers in the Republican presidential primaries,” says Baldassare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a catch, though. While nonpartisans \u003cem>can\u003c/em> vote in the Democratic primary, they have to ask for a Democratic ballot by mailing in a request to their local elections office or exchanging their ballot without the Democratic presidential candidates at their polling place on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In hypothetical head-to-head fall matchups, both Clinton and Sanders lead likely Republican nominee Donald Trump. Clinton leads Trump by 10 points, 49 to 39 percent. Sanders does even better, besting Trump by 17 points, 53 to 36 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in the relatively sleepy U.S. Senate race, Democrats Kamala Harris and Loretta Sanchez appear headed for a fall matchup. Attorney General Harris leads congresswoman Sanchez 27 to 19 percent. Three Republicans running are all below 10 percent, while 31 percent of voters say they’re still undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That race is far from decided. But if Harris and Sanchez finish one-two on June 7 as expected, the fall runoff will be fascinating. The PPIC poll shows Harris leading Sanchez 34 to 26 percent. Among likely voters in the June primary, 24 percent said they wouldn’t bother voting if the Senate race comes down to two Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris-800x364.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Loretta Sanchez (L) and Attorney General Kamala Harris. \" width=\"800\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris-800x364.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris-400x182.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris-1180x537.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris-960x437.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Loretta Sanchez (L) and Attorney General Kamala Harris. \u003ccite>(Tommaso Boddi and Jason Merritt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Secretary of State Alex Padilla reported 1.8 million voter registrations or registration updates (such as political change of party or address) took place on the \u003ca href=\"http://registertovote.ca.gov/\">online voter registration website\u003c/a> since Jan. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla calls the lead-up to the midnight Monday deadline “the most online registration activity this year, and the second-highest total in the nearly four-year history of the online registration site.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secretary of state’s office said Californians 25 and younger accounted for 42 percent of the voter registration activity. Assuming they follow through and cast ballots in the Democratic primary, it could provide a boost to Bernie Sanders, who does best among younger voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://politicaldata.com/category/news/\">Paul Mitchell\u003c/a>, who crunches voter data and sells the analysis to campaigns, notes the registration surge has benefited the California Democratic Party far more than the GOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No question all this interest in voting is great for democracy. But some worry that local election officials aren’t prepared for the onslaught of ballots likely to arrive on or before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If this is your first time voting, this is a tough time to make your entry into the voting process,\" says Kim Alexander of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calvoter.org/about/kimbio.html\">California Voter Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to who can and cannot vote in the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries, Alexander notes that “we have really confusing primary participation rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only registered Republicans can vote for Donald Trump or one of the other Republicans on the presidential ballot. The state Democratic Party allows voters with “no party preference” to cast ballots for Clinton or Sanders, but only if they specifically request a Democratic ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But analyst Mitchell says it appears most nonpartisan voters aren’t doing that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Los Angeles County 91 percent of the ballots mailed to nonpartisan voters had no presidential candidates on it,” says Mitchell. “And 85 percent of ballots sent statewide to nonpartisan or independent voters have no presidential candidates on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mitchell and Alexander made their comments earlier this week on KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s still time for independent voters to request a Democratic ballot, and they can even do that at their polling place on Election Day. 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"disqusTitle": "In This Political Year, Will Asian-American Voters Step Up to the Polls?",
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"content": "\u003cp>In a small downtown Los Angeles office one May evening, Helen Xiang and her teenage son, Sam, sat side by side, calling a list of Chinese-American registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam spoke in English and his mother in Mandarin, but their message was the same: Get to the polls June 7 and vote in the state primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to encourage our people to speak out,\" said Xiang, a 52-year-old Alhambra resident. \"Your ballot is really important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xiang arrived from China 20 years ago. She lived then illegally in the United States and worked menial jobs. She's now seeking citizenship, looking ahead to the day when she can cast a ballot and urging registered Asians to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That message can be a hard sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asians rank as the nation’s fastest-growing racial group, with about 5.3 million residing in California, yet their potential as voters has yet to reach full flower. Only 56 percent of those eligible to vote in 2012 were registered to do so, according to census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is really difficult to reach out and get them to vote if they’re not even on the radar screens, if they’re not registered to vote,\" said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a political scientist at UC Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10967156 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Tran, a senior at San Gabriel High School, makes a call in Vietnamese during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. During a three-hour shift, volunteers can make up to 80 calls.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Tran, a senior at San Gabriel High School, makes a call in Vietnamese during a phone bank shift on May 23, 2016, reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election. During a three-hour shift at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles, volunteers can make up to 80 calls. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even when registered, Asian-Americans lag at the polls. In 2012, fewer than 50 percent of registered Asian-American voters nationally turned out to vote in the presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike U.S. Latinos, whose growth is now fueled by those who are native-born, the increase among Asians is driven mostly by immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For reasons similar to other ethnic groups with large numbers of immigrants, many Asians don’t engage in elections. Some aren't U.S. citizens, may not be fluent in English, face cultural challenges or have a distrust in governments carried over from their birth countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also aren’t monolithic and have different issues that matter to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We are providing that personal contact to them that they wouldn’t get otherwise. ... We're speaking in their language.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But with the 2016 primary just around the corner, get-out-the-vote efforts aimed at Asian-Americans are in full swing and focused on increasing their impact at the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, community advocacy groups like \u003ca href=\"http://www.advancingjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Americans Advancing Justice\u003c/a> (AAAJ) have been setting up phone banks and recruiting volunteers like the Xiangs to make calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have about 10 volunteers right now that are making calls in five different languages,\" said Kelly Osajima, with AAAJ in Los Angeles, as she monitored the evening's phone bank effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers were making calls in Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese, Bangla and Thai, targeting \"voters who don’t vote frequently, so they don't get reached out to by mainstream campaigns,\" Osajima said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are providing that personal contact to them that they wouldn't get otherwise,\" she said. \"We're speaking in their language.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the challenges of reaching Asians remain, the numbers who are engaging are slowly improving, said Stewart Kwoh, executive director of AAAJ in Los Angeles and a KPCC lifetime trustee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the United States, there are probably about 2 million Asian-Americans who are eligible to become citizens but haven’t applied,\" Kwoh said. \"We’re seeing that changing. In our own work, we are seeing a doubling of the citizenship applications.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwoh said many of those applying for citizenship say they want to vote in the November election. He believes that anti-immigrant remarks in the presidential campaign have played a part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967159\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Hur, a junior at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, makes a call in Korean during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. Phone calls in Korean are focused on L.A.'s Koreatown and Cerritos.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Hur, a junior at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, makes a call in Korean during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election. He's at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. Phone calls in Korean are focused on L.A.'s Koreatown and Cerritos. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Results from a \u003ca href=\"http://aapidata.com/spring-2016-survey/\">survey of 1,200 Asian-American voters\u003c/a> released this week by AAAJ say the rhetoric of the campaign has captured their attention: Anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiment caused more than 40 percent of Asian-American voters to state they would not vote for a candidate who expressed those views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Observers like UC Riverside's Ramakrishnan said one way to reach Asian-American voters is through issues they care about. They are less interested in individual candidates than in concerns like education, health care and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Yed6NSTysRxpUL1kr6p8IWj7MMf1j7eU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders made reaching out to Asian-American voters a part of their campaigns in California. Even Republican Donald Trump has galvanized voters -- largely in opposition, but he has \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2016/05/18/48955/meet-the-chinese-american-supporters-of-donald-tru/\">Asian-American supporters\u003c/a> as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Asian-American voters tend to lean more Democratic than Republican, about a third claim no party affiliation. Having no party connection makes such voters hard to reach. That is particularly true of English-speaking, second-generation Asian-Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we have seen from recent elections is that Asian-American youths 18 to 29 years old have the lowest voter participation of any voter group in the country,\" Ramakrishnan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam, Helen Xiang’s son, turned 18 this year. He said he knows many Asian-Americans his age who aren't all that interested in voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They think that just because they have freedom, they have the option to avoid the political system,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967158\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Lia Kim, a Korean teacher at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, works with ninth-grader Nara Hong on a call script in Korean during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. The students are volunteering through the K.W. Lee Center for Leadership.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lia Kim, a Korean teacher at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, works with ninth-grader Nara Hong on a call script in Korean during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election. They're at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. The students are volunteering through the K.W. Lee Center for Leadership. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In sharp contrast, his mother is excited about voting. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In a small downtown Los Angeles office one May evening, Helen Xiang and her teenage son, Sam, sat side by side, calling a list of Chinese-American registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam spoke in English and his mother in Mandarin, but their message was the same: Get to the polls June 7 and vote in the state primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to encourage our people to speak out,\" said Xiang, a 52-year-old Alhambra resident. \"Your ballot is really important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xiang arrived from China 20 years ago. She lived then illegally in the United States and worked menial jobs. She's now seeking citizenship, looking ahead to the day when she can cast a ballot and urging registered Asians to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That message can be a hard sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asians rank as the nation’s fastest-growing racial group, with about 5.3 million residing in California, yet their potential as voters has yet to reach full flower. Only 56 percent of those eligible to vote in 2012 were registered to do so, according to census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is really difficult to reach out and get them to vote if they’re not even on the radar screens, if they’re not registered to vote,\" said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a political scientist at UC Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10967156 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Tran, a senior at San Gabriel High School, makes a call in Vietnamese during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. During a three-hour shift, volunteers can make up to 80 calls.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Tran, a senior at San Gabriel High School, makes a call in Vietnamese during a phone bank shift on May 23, 2016, reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election. During a three-hour shift at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles, volunteers can make up to 80 calls. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even when registered, Asian-Americans lag at the polls. In 2012, fewer than 50 percent of registered Asian-American voters nationally turned out to vote in the presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike U.S. Latinos, whose growth is now fueled by those who are native-born, the increase among Asians is driven mostly by immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For reasons similar to other ethnic groups with large numbers of immigrants, many Asians don’t engage in elections. Some aren't U.S. citizens, may not be fluent in English, face cultural challenges or have a distrust in governments carried over from their birth countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also aren’t monolithic and have different issues that matter to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We are providing that personal contact to them that they wouldn’t get otherwise. ... We're speaking in their language.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But with the 2016 primary just around the corner, get-out-the-vote efforts aimed at Asian-Americans are in full swing and focused on increasing their impact at the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, community advocacy groups like \u003ca href=\"http://www.advancingjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Americans Advancing Justice\u003c/a> (AAAJ) have been setting up phone banks and recruiting volunteers like the Xiangs to make calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have about 10 volunteers right now that are making calls in five different languages,\" said Kelly Osajima, with AAAJ in Los Angeles, as she monitored the evening's phone bank effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers were making calls in Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese, Bangla and Thai, targeting \"voters who don’t vote frequently, so they don't get reached out to by mainstream campaigns,\" Osajima said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are providing that personal contact to them that they wouldn't get otherwise,\" she said. \"We're speaking in their language.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the challenges of reaching Asians remain, the numbers who are engaging are slowly improving, said Stewart Kwoh, executive director of AAAJ in Los Angeles and a KPCC lifetime trustee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the United States, there are probably about 2 million Asian-Americans who are eligible to become citizens but haven’t applied,\" Kwoh said. \"We’re seeing that changing. In our own work, we are seeing a doubling of the citizenship applications.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwoh said many of those applying for citizenship say they want to vote in the November election. He believes that anti-immigrant remarks in the presidential campaign have played a part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967159\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Hur, a junior at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, makes a call in Korean during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. Phone calls in Korean are focused on L.A.'s Koreatown and Cerritos.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Hur, a junior at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, makes a call in Korean during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election. He's at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. Phone calls in Korean are focused on L.A.'s Koreatown and Cerritos. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Results from a \u003ca href=\"http://aapidata.com/spring-2016-survey/\">survey of 1,200 Asian-American voters\u003c/a> released this week by AAAJ say the rhetoric of the campaign has captured their attention: Anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiment caused more than 40 percent of Asian-American voters to state they would not vote for a candidate who expressed those views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Observers like UC Riverside's Ramakrishnan said one way to reach Asian-American voters is through issues they care about. They are less interested in individual candidates than in concerns like education, health care and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders made reaching out to Asian-American voters a part of their campaigns in California. Even Republican Donald Trump has galvanized voters -- largely in opposition, but he has \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2016/05/18/48955/meet-the-chinese-american-supporters-of-donald-tru/\">Asian-American supporters\u003c/a> as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Asian-American voters tend to lean more Democratic than Republican, about a third claim no party affiliation. Having no party connection makes such voters hard to reach. That is particularly true of English-speaking, second-generation Asian-Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we have seen from recent elections is that Asian-American youths 18 to 29 years old have the lowest voter participation of any voter group in the country,\" Ramakrishnan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam, Helen Xiang’s son, turned 18 this year. He said he knows many Asian-Americans his age who aren't all that interested in voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They think that just because they have freedom, they have the option to avoid the political system,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967158\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Lia Kim, a Korean teacher at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, works with ninth-grader Nara Hong on a call script in Korean during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. The students are volunteering through the K.W. Lee Center for Leadership.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lia Kim, a Korean teacher at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, works with ninth-grader Nara Hong on a call script in Korean during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election. They're at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. The students are volunteering through the K.W. Lee Center for Leadership. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In sharp contrast, his mother is excited about voting. Xiang said she feels a sense of indebtedness to the United States: Her son survived serious health problems when he was a child. And despite being poor, she said, he got excellent care here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Sam and his mother turn back to the phone bank, Sam sums up his philosophy:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a famous quote out there. The quote is, 'Be the change you want to see,' \" he said. \"So what I’m trying to do here is start that domino effect, basically, to start encouraging people to vote and vote myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam and his mom plan to volunteer as poll workers during the June primary. Then they hope to cast their votes together in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of California Counts, a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\">2.5 million union members\u003c/a> call California home. With election season upon us, the two Democrats fighting for their party's presidential nomination see union support as critical to getting out the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave unions a shoutout at a recent rally in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need strong unions, and I will stand up for that basic American right,\" she told a cheering crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton has been doing well with labor, collecting major endorsements from unions representing \u003ca href=\"http://www.aft.org/resolution/endorsement-hillary-clinton\" target=\"_blank\">teachers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.afscme.org/blog/afscme-endorses-hillary-clinton\" target=\"_blank\">government employees\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufcw.org/2016/01/12/ufcwendorsesclinton/\" target=\"_blank\">food workers\u003c/a>. Clinton also has the support of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu.org/2015/11/seiu-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-president\" target=\"_blank\">Service Employees International Union\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10959932\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10959932 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19539_Clinton-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to at a campaign rally in Oakland on Friday, May 6, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19539_Clinton-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19539_Clinton-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19539_Clinton-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19539_Clinton-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19539_Clinton-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign rally in Oakland on Friday, May 6, 2016. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yvonne Walker is president of SEIU Local 1000. She says it’s not just that Clinton is better on one issue or another. Rather, she says, it’s their long history of working together on issues that tilted their endorsement toward Clinton instead of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is part of all of our platform, be it women and children, economics, all of that in a very real way,\" Walker says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sanders has his labor supporters, too. He has endorsements from \u003ca href=\"http://www.cwa-union.org/news/entry/cwa_endorses_sen_bernie_sanders_for_president\" target=\"_blank\">communication workers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://nuhw.org/national-union-of-healthcare-workers-endorses-bernie-sanders-for-president/\" target=\"_blank\">health care employees\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.apwu.org/news/news-bulletin/executive-board-endorses-bernie-sanders-president\" target=\"_blank\">postal workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among his most visible backers are the California Nurses Association and its umbrella organization, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/entry/nurses-endorse-sen.-bernie-sanders-for-president/\" target=\"_blank\">National Nurses United\u003c/a>. The groups are powerful allies for Sanders. Records show the national organization has spent nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/indexpend.php?cycle=2016&cmte=C00490375\" target=\"_blank\">$4 million\u003c/a> on behalf of the Sanders campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/265858528\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nurses recently rallied for Sanders at the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Burger, co-president of both unions, said Sanders is the only candidate who would represent everyone in the United States. She jokes that he essentially stole their platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been working on single-payer Medicare for all. We’ve been working on securing Social Security and expanding it,\" she says. \"And we’ve been trying to make sure that people can go to college and not end up with a mountain load of debt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burger says her organization is sticking with Sanders until the end and will make sure that he has a major influence on the platform that Democrats adopt at their convention in Philadelphia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such steadfast support is crucial to candidates. Kent Wong directs the UCLA Labor Center. He says even though union membership is declining, organized labor is still a powerful political player.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Labor’s endorsement has had a huge impact in opening up financial resources as well as campaign activists,\" he says. \"So when a candidate receives a labor endorsement, it’s a big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the ongoing nomination fight between Sanders and Clinton has been tough, Wong says he expects labor to come together for the general election. In fact, he expects union members to be even more energetic since Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is fiercely opposed to unions, to worker rights,\" Wong says. \"And so I do think that this will be a strong rallying cry for unions and workers across the country who want to oppose Donald Trump and the policies that he represents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of California Counts, a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. 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"content": "\u003cp>Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders kicked off his final push to win the California primary with a bold prediction during a rally in Carson on Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we are going to win here in California,” Sanders told a crowd of more than 8,000 at the Tennis Stadium inside the StubHub Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sanders said the only way to victory is with a “huge” turnout of his supporters. “Let this great state show the world that you are prepared to help lead our nation into the political revolution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Sanders does pull off a California victory, it would be an upset: a Field Poll last month showed him trailing Hillary Clinton by 6 percentage points. The primary is June 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sanders campaign hopes to marshal resources from around the region. Katherine Sprague of Phoenix intends to spend the next two weeks campaigning for Sanders in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm doing a Bernie Journey,\" she said as she waited for the rally to begin. \"We have a whole caravan of Arizona State University students coming. Hopefully, 10 or 20.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/StoltzeFrankly/status/732757714737094657\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Kittler spoke through a megaphone to Sanders supporters as they lined up outside the stadium, urging them to volunteer, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need you to help this revolution come true,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders' speech came as news arrived that he won the Oregon primary Tuesday. “I am getting to like the West Coast,” Sanders quipped. Clinton declared victory in Kentucky in a tight race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders refused to ease up on Clinton, who holds a near-insurmountable lead in delegates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"FWDwPb9wig6yq0kF9PPPiyRzov1y56tS\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The self-described Democratic socialist highlighted differences over trade policies and the minimum wage, and took Clinton to task for taking money from people and institutions tied to Wall Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our job is to take on Wall Street, not take their money,” he said to a roaring crowd. “I am tired of the greed of Wall Street. We need a new moral compass.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton has said she acts independently of Wall Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders also called on party leaders to be more open to his ideas. “I say to the leadership of the Democratic Party, 'Open the doors. Let the people in.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Trump was also a target. He chastised the presumptive Republican nominee for wanting to prohibit Muslims from entering the U.S. and for his refusal to rule out the use of nuclear weapons against the Islamic State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not accept a president who recklessly talks about using nuclear weapons,” Sanders said as the crowd booed at the mention of Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally attracted Sanders supporters from around Southern California. Many tended to be younger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/StoltzeFrankly/status/732766201349210112\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabrina Rios, 30, of Highland Park, sported a T-shirt that read: “Vato Loco Bernie Sanders.” Vato loco means crazy dude in Spanish – in a “good way,” Rios said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I work full time. I am a single mom. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the Sierra foothills above Fresno, the community of Prather is hosting a forum for county council candidates. It’s in the cafeteria of the local elementary school, where a banner on the wall reads a bit like a political slogan -- \u003cem>Every Day, In Every Way, We Get Better\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As people wander in, Jim Cox talks to one of the candidates about what it’s like to be disabled in a rural mountainous region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In spite of the fact we’re in the mountains, it’s actually pretty accessible and we actually get out a lot,” Cox tells the candidate. “And you’ll find us doing an amazing number of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cox says there are issues with the great outdoors -- duck hunting, for one. On the one hand, the county has done a good job making duck hunting blinds accessible. But actually getting to those duck blinds can be a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">By law, polling places must provide an accessible voting machine. But if there’s just one and it breaks down, it takes time to fix it.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Some of the duck blinds, you know, you have the wheelchair-accessible blinds and yet the roads to those blinds are blocked off,\" says Cox. \"How am I supposed to get there if I can’t push my wheelchair there?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the dirt roads are closed off with a gate, he says -- and if you have mobility issues, you can’t just get out and open it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 40 years ago, Cox broke his back in a car accident. He was partially paralyzed, and eventually his right leg had to be amputated. He wears a prosthetic and sometimes uses a wheelchair, especially if he’s in Sacramento engaging politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they have an idea that we’re out here and we’re not just a forgotten community,” Cox says. “Believe it or not, there are people who would push people who are disabled into the closet and lock the door.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Various Barriers to Voter Turnout\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California doesn’t have specific voter statistics for people with disabilities. However, a recent \u003ca href=\"http://smlr.rutgers.edu/research-centers/disability-and-voter-turnout\">study\u003c/a> from Rutgers University found that voter registration nationwide is about 2.3 percent lower for the disabled. But the big gap is in voter turnout – about 6 percent lower than for people without disabilities. Advocates like Cox say there are lots of reasons for this -- apathy, feeling left out of the conversation, physical barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it’s the issue of the voting machines themselves,” says Cox, who volunteers with Resources for Independence Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10958597\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10958597\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JimAndBecky-800x973.jpg\" alt=\"Jim and Becky Cox volunteer with Resources for Independence Central Valley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JimAndBecky-800x973.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JimAndBecky-400x487.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JimAndBecky.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JimAndBecky-1180x1436.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JimAndBecky-960x1168.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim and Becky Cox volunteer with Resources for Independence Central Valley. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By law, polling places must provide an accessible voting machine. But if there’s just one and it breaks down, it takes time to fix it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And sometimes poll workers view the machines as burdensome, as something they have to provide versus something everyone can use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people around California think the machine is there for someone in a wheelchair,” says Ted Jackson, director of community organizing for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfilc.org/\">California Foundation for Independent Living Centers\u003c/a>. “Not for someone who is aging, or has poor vision, or uses a walker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, there’s a lot of stigma in institutionalized ableism around that machine,” he says. “Poll workers are afraid to suggest it and quite frankly, from having dealt with a lot of our county elections officials, I think a lot of them have a little stigma about that machine. too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson says L.A. County is doing it right by designing a one-size-fits-all voting machine for everyone. People shouldn’t have to cast their ballots in different ways, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it’s not just about the polling place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Grass-Roots Effort to Engage Disabled Voters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because you build the house and send out invitations doesn’t mean people are coming to the (housewarming) party,” Jackson says. “You’ve got to go out and get them and bring them in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/264899714\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s what hundreds of volunteers statewide will do this election season -- driving people to the polls, doing outreach at festivals and fairs, staffing phone banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a grass-roots effort among nine independent living centers from Eureka to San Diego, and each center has its own localized plan. In Fresno, volunteers will go door to door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to having a volunteer force that’s disabled, there are barriers to mobility in walking up to someone’s house. What’s interesting about Fresno and the area near the independent living center is there are these nice little postwar homes level and flat to the street,” Jackson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Rm4UtVVYacPTcL2wtY7hD1skFb7zjdco\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Cox is part of that Fresno effort. And tonight, at the community forum in the Sierra foothills, he’s not only bringing up accessibility issues with potential candidates. He and his wife, Becky Cox, are also asking voters to make a promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you planning on voting?” Becky asks a father who is here with his kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes,” he says. “I always vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if you would, sign that pledge,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pledging for what?” he asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Promising to vote,” says Jim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re also hoping that you keep in mind people who have disabilities,” Becky says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, a strong voting bloc includes those who are sympathetic to the cause, family members and friends who know someone with a disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ted Jackson says it won’t happen overnight, but in time the goal is to create a voting bloc along the same lines of other groups who have sometimes felt left out of the electoral process, like the LGBT community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are starting to do something new, we are starting to do something different and we’re not going to achieve it in one election cycle,” says Jackson. “We’ll achieve closing that gap over several election cycles. 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However, a recent \u003ca href=\"http://smlr.rutgers.edu/research-centers/disability-and-voter-turnout\">study\u003c/a> from Rutgers University found that voter registration nationwide is about 2.3 percent lower for the disabled. But the big gap is in voter turnout – about 6 percent lower than for people without disabilities. Advocates like Cox say there are lots of reasons for this -- apathy, feeling left out of the conversation, physical barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it’s the issue of the voting machines themselves,” says Cox, who volunteers with Resources for Independence Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10958597\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10958597\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JimAndBecky-800x973.jpg\" alt=\"Jim and Becky Cox volunteer with Resources for Independence Central Valley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JimAndBecky-800x973.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JimAndBecky-400x487.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JimAndBecky.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JimAndBecky-1180x1436.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JimAndBecky-960x1168.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim and Becky Cox volunteer with Resources for Independence Central Valley. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By law, polling places must provide an accessible voting machine. But if there’s just one and it breaks down, it takes time to fix it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And sometimes poll workers view the machines as burdensome, as something they have to provide versus something everyone can use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people around California think the machine is there for someone in a wheelchair,” says Ted Jackson, director of community organizing for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfilc.org/\">California Foundation for Independent Living Centers\u003c/a>. “Not for someone who is aging, or has poor vision, or uses a walker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, there’s a lot of stigma in institutionalized ableism around that machine,” he says. “Poll workers are afraid to suggest it and quite frankly, from having dealt with a lot of our county elections officials, I think a lot of them have a little stigma about that machine. too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson says L.A. County is doing it right by designing a one-size-fits-all voting machine for everyone. People shouldn’t have to cast their ballots in different ways, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it’s not just about the polling place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Grass-Roots Effort to Engage Disabled Voters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because you build the house and send out invitations doesn’t mean people are coming to the (housewarming) party,” Jackson says. “You’ve got to go out and get them and bring them in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/264899714&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/264899714'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s what hundreds of volunteers statewide will do this election season -- driving people to the polls, doing outreach at festivals and fairs, staffing phone banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a grass-roots effort among nine independent living centers from Eureka to San Diego, and each center has its own localized plan. In Fresno, volunteers will go door to door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to having a volunteer force that’s disabled, there are barriers to mobility in walking up to someone’s house. What’s interesting about Fresno and the area near the independent living center is there are these nice little postwar homes level and flat to the street,” Jackson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Cox is part of that Fresno effort. And tonight, at the community forum in the Sierra foothills, he’s not only bringing up accessibility issues with potential candidates. He and his wife, Becky Cox, are also asking voters to make a promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you planning on voting?” Becky asks a father who is here with his kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes,” he says. “I always vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if you would, sign that pledge,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pledging for what?” he asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Promising to vote,” says Jim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re also hoping that you keep in mind people who have disabilities,” Becky says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, a strong voting bloc includes those who are sympathetic to the cause, family members and friends who know someone with a disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ted Jackson says it won’t happen overnight, but in time the goal is to create a voting bloc along the same lines of other groups who have sometimes felt left out of the electoral process, like the LGBT community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are starting to do something new, we are starting to do something different and we’re not going to achieve it in one election cycle,” says Jackson. “We’ll achieve closing that gap over several election cycles. 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"content": "\u003cp>Voter turnout has been falling in California for years, but that’s not the case in the conservative northeastern part of the state. In rural \u003ca href=\"http://www.sierracountyprospect.org/\">Sierra County\u003c/a> more than \u003ca href=\"http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov//ror/ror-pages/county.pdf\">85 percent\u003c/a> of eligible voters are registered. And they cast their ballots, too -- usually for Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hamlet of Loyalton is no exception. On a recent morning inside the town’s only convenience store and gas station, owner Kelly White greets some regular customers. She makes small talk and rings up their purchases. Kelly's husband is Andy White, whose grandfather started the business in 1923.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He sold Model T's out of a livery stable,\" Andy White says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can’t buy a car in Loyalton anymore. You can’t buy much of anything aside from your basic necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/264033236\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town, about 25 miles northwest of Reno, sits on the eastern edge of a vast valley filled with ranches and farms. The view of the mountains is breathtaking. But talking to people who live here, it’s clear that things have been on the decline for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s been a struggle, with the mill closing,\" White says, referring to a sawmill that once operated just outside of town. \"I used to have three employees working in the back shop -- three mechanics. Now I’m [the mechanic] and my wife’s writing service.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sawmill closed in 2001. A power plant next to the mill closed in 2010. Now the site sits largely empty, a silent reminder of better times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10954589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/KellyAndAndy-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Kelly and Andy White, owners of Loyalton’s only convenience store and gas station.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10954589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/KellyAndAndy-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/KellyAndAndy-400x283.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/KellyAndAndy.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/KellyAndAndy-1180x835.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/KellyAndAndy-960x679.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly and Andy White, owners of Loyalton’s only convenience store and gas station. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Andy White)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s a certain frustration in this county of about 3,000 people, the feeling of having a way of life taken away by what some regard as one-size-fits-all government regulations that have curtailed mining and logging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that frustration is vented through political discussions. After a meeting of the local Republican women’s club, members mill around and chat. Longtime Loyalton resident Vicki Barney says she’s afraid she’ll be “crucified” for saying so, but she supports Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not a career politician,\" she says. \"Yeah he’s a millionaire. He’s got a lot of money. That doesn’t bother me.\" Barney says wealthy people like Trump helped build the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the meeting hall, county Supervisor Jim Beard says he also likes Trump. He says a lot of people in Sierra County think government doesn’t understand them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"t6ly7r3b0MIKnBmllHyPQM9rOqoo3Que\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have no clue who we are,\" he says. \"All they know is they want to be able to come up here and go snow skiing during the wintertime. And then as long as we’re not in their way, it’s OK for us to be here for now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gas station owner White says he's disappointed that his preferred candidate, Ted Cruz, dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination. He says he has no choice but to vote for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“America’s gosh darn teetering right now,\" he says. \"We need to get this country back on the right path. And I hope to heck Trump can do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some liberals up here. Cindy Ellsmore chairs the county Democratic Party. She notes the county uses an all-mail ballot system, which could contribute to its high voter turnout. As for her vote, Ellsmore says she’s leaning toward Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10953728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LoyaltonPowerPlant-800x434.jpg\" alt=\"Loyalton's power plant closed in 2010. It sits next to the town's sawmill, which was shuttered in 2001.\" width=\"800\" height=\"434\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10953728\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LoyaltonPowerPlant-800x434.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LoyaltonPowerPlant-400x217.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LoyaltonPowerPlant.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LoyaltonPowerPlant-1180x640.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LoyaltonPowerPlant-960x521.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loyalton's power plant closed in 2010. It sits next to the town's sawmill, which was shuttered in 2001. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am tired of the incremental changes that are happening,\" she says. \"I totally support President Obama and what he’s been able to accomplish. And I think it’s amazing considering what he has to deal with. But I think it’s time to just do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellsmore rejects the notion that Sanders and Trump are similar just because they’ve both been labeled outsiders. But she does say there’s a feeling of everyone being tired of politics as usual, which could be good news for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in Sierra County. Because if history is any guide, this will be Trump country come November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of California Counts, a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s been a struggle, with the mill closing,\" White says, referring to a sawmill that once operated just outside of town. \"I used to have three employees working in the back shop -- three mechanics. Now I’m [the mechanic] and my wife’s writing service.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sawmill closed in 2001. A power plant next to the mill closed in 2010. Now the site sits largely empty, a silent reminder of better times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10954589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/KellyAndAndy-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Kelly and Andy White, owners of Loyalton’s only convenience store and gas station.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10954589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/KellyAndAndy-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/KellyAndAndy-400x283.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/KellyAndAndy.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/KellyAndAndy-1180x835.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/KellyAndAndy-960x679.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly and Andy White, owners of Loyalton’s only convenience store and gas station. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Andy White)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s a certain frustration in this county of about 3,000 people, the feeling of having a way of life taken away by what some regard as one-size-fits-all government regulations that have curtailed mining and logging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that frustration is vented through political discussions. After a meeting of the local Republican women’s club, members mill around and chat. Longtime Loyalton resident Vicki Barney says she’s afraid she’ll be “crucified” for saying so, but she supports Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not a career politician,\" she says. \"Yeah he’s a millionaire. He’s got a lot of money. That doesn’t bother me.\" Barney says wealthy people like Trump helped build the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the meeting hall, county Supervisor Jim Beard says he also likes Trump. He says a lot of people in Sierra County think government doesn’t understand them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have no clue who we are,\" he says. \"All they know is they want to be able to come up here and go snow skiing during the wintertime. And then as long as we’re not in their way, it’s OK for us to be here for now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gas station owner White says he's disappointed that his preferred candidate, Ted Cruz, dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination. He says he has no choice but to vote for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“America’s gosh darn teetering right now,\" he says. \"We need to get this country back on the right path. And I hope to heck Trump can do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some liberals up here. Cindy Ellsmore chairs the county Democratic Party. She notes the county uses an all-mail ballot system, which could contribute to its high voter turnout. As for her vote, Ellsmore says she’s leaning toward Vermont Sen. 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It sits next to the town's sawmill, which was shuttered in 2001. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am tired of the incremental changes that are happening,\" she says. \"I totally support President Obama and what he’s been able to accomplish. And I think it’s amazing considering what he has to deal with. But I think it’s time to just do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellsmore rejects the notion that Sanders and Trump are similar just because they’ve both been labeled outsiders. But she does say there’s a feeling of everyone being tired of politics as usual, which could be good news for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in Sierra County. Because if history is any guide, this will be Trump country come November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of California Counts, a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. 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