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"content": "\u003cp>It’s finally Election Day: your last day to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t already voted, keep reading for everything you need to know about where you can vote in person today, where to drop off your ballot before polls close at 8 p.m. PST today and how to get a new ballot if you need one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#where-is-my-polling-place\">Where can I find my polling place on Election Day?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#mail-ballot-usps\">Should I mail my ballot today or use a drop box?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#contact-my-county-elections-office\">How can I contact my county directly about voting?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Or maybe you’re looking for last-minute information about what’s on your ballot before you submit it? \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">Take a look at KQED’s Voter Guide\u003c/a>, which unpacks ballot measures and compares candidates in every race in the Bay Area. It’ll be online until 8 p.m. tonight, after which time \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">it’ll become our election results page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"where-early-vote-ballot-dropoff\">\u003c/a>Where should I drop off my completed ballot on Election Day?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Dropping your ballot into a secure official ballot drop box means from there, it’ll go straight to your county elections office \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">—\u003c/span> and it’ll be processed and counted quicker.[aside label=\"2024 Bay Area Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/bayarea,Learn about every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Bay-Area-Voter-Guide-2024-Primary-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also return your ballot in person to your county election office, any voting site or a drive-through ballot drop-off location up to 8 p.m. on Nov. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find your nearest ballot drop box or voting location, visit the \u003ca href=\"https://caearlyvoting.sos.ca.gov/\">state of California lookup tool:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Enter your county (adding your city or ZIP code will give more localized results, but it’s optional)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Check the “Early Voting” and/or “Drop Off Location” boxes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hit “Search” to see all the drop-off locations in that area, as well as the voting locations where you can vote in person or drop off a ballot.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>(In 2020, we had a lot of people asking us if you could drop off your ballot in a drop box that isn’t actually in your county if that’s more convenient to you. And the answer is: “Yes, you can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California election officials say they have eight days after receiving your ballot to forward it to your actual county to be processed. This will, of course, give your ballot another journey to make and will mean it doesn’t get to your own county’s election officials as fast as it could — which may affect your decision.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mail-ballot-usps\">\u003c/a>Can’t I still use a USPS collection box to submit my ballot?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, you \u003cem>could\u003c/em> still mail your completed ballot via the USPS at any collection box. The envelope doesn’t require a stamp, and it’ll be counted as long as it’s postmarked by Nov. 5 (i.e., it makes the last postal collection on Election Day.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in order to count your ballot, your county elections office must receive it no later than Nov. 12, one week after Election Day. And sometimes, even ballots mailed through USPS on time don’t make it to the county elections office by that “one week after Election Day” deadline to be counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While USPS is not reporting any particular delays, the agency said it “anticipates similar service performance as demonstrated in the 2020 general election,” in which 99.89% of ballots mailed from voters nationwide to election officials were delivered within a week. This, of course, means that 0.11% nationwide — around 715,000 ballots — were \u003cem>not \u003c/em>successfully delivered to county elections offices in time to be counted, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/11/10/most-mail-and-provisional-ballots-got-counted-in-past-u-s-elections-but-many-did-not/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the number of overall ballots cast that year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, some people who mail their ballot on Election Day before 8 p.m. may \u003ci>think \u003c/i>they’ve successfully gotten it in on time but have accidentally placed it in a USPS collection box that’s past its last collection for the day — which in many places is 5 p.m. or earlier. That means your ballot won’t be postmarked on Nov. 5, and your county elections office won’t count your vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All in all, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008419/ballot-drop-off-location-near-me-early-voting-site-election-2024\">delivering your ballot by hand via a drop-box or at a voting location\u003c/a> by 8 p.m. on Nov. 5 guarantees it’ll reach your county elections office, bringing you peace of mind that you’ve made the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need to know about voting in the 2024 general election right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_12010355, news_12008419,news_12003469,news_12009039,news_12008332' label='More Election Explainers']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"where-is-my-polling-place\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Where can I vote in person on Election Day?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you live in San Francisco, Contra Costa or Solano counties, you are assigned a specific polling place, though Contra Costa County election officials say they can process your ballot no matter where you show up to vote. Voting at the county registrar’s office (at City Hall, in San Francisco’s case) is still an option on Election Day, even if you live in a county that assigns you a particular polling place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you live in Alameda, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara or Sonoma counties, you can vote at any voting location, known as Vote Centers, including your county registrar’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://caearlyvoting.sos.ca.gov/\">Wherever you live, find your voting location or your polling place through the state’s lookup tool:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Enter your county (adding your city or ZIP code will give more localized results, but it’s optional)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Check the “Early Voting” and/or “Drop Off Location” boxes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hit “Search” to see where you can vote in person, as well as drop off a ballot.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can also check the mail-in ballot you were sent to see where you can vote and whether you’ve been assigned a specific polling place. If in doubt, you can\u003ca href=\"#contact-my-county-elections-office\"> call your county directly about voting on Election Day.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you choose to vote in person on Nov. 5, make a plan to ensure you don’t run out of time or arrive at your voting location after polls close at 8 p.m. Otherwise, you’ll be turned away and unable to vote. \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/vote-before-8-pm-if-in-line-at-polls-california\">As long as you’re in line to vote before 8 p.m., you can stay in line and vote.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do I have to bring my mail-in ballot with me to vote IRL?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, it’s a good idea to bring the blank ballot you were mailed, as some counties may require you to vote provisionally if you don’t bring it. If you’re issued a new ballot when you vote in person, any ballot you left at home will be canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Provisional votes are subject to extra checks — confirming that you’re actually registered to vote in California or that you didn’t already complete and mail your ballot — and this extra layer of confirmation takes time. That means that although your vote will eventually be counted, it might not be tallied on Election Day itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>My ballot never showed up. Can I still vote?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>First, look up your voter registration at \u003ca href=\"https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/\">voterstatus.sos.ca.gov\u003c/a> to check your registration status, which will show you whether you’re correctly registered to vote and to which address. It should also show whether your ballot was mailed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re correctly registered to the right address, your county elections office won’t mail you a ballot six days or less before Election Day (because it can’t be sure the ballot will reach you in time.) So go to your county elections office or your voting location in person, explain what’s happened and request a replacement ballot. \u003ca href=\"https://caearlyvoting.sos.ca.gov/\">Find your voting location or your polling place through the state’s lookup tool.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it turns out you were not actually registered to vote or need to re-register to update details like your address or your legal name, you always have the option of Same Day Registration at an open voting location, where you can then fill out and submit your ballot, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I made a mistake on my ballot, and now it’s Election Day. What do I do?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to correcting a mistake on your ballot in California — how a voter corrects a mistake is up to your county, and their advice for how to fix a mistake on your ballot is almost certainly printed on the ballot itself. So check there first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the advice ranges from “X out the incorrect choice and fill in the oval of your actual choice” to “get a new ballot entirely.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003469/election-2024-how-to-correct-a-mistake-on-your-ballot-correction#how-to-correct-mistake-ballot\">See what your county said here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’ve really messed up your ballot (coffee spills happen), remember you can go to \u003ca href=\"https://caearlyvoting.sos.ca.gov/\">your county elections office or a voting location\u003c/a> on Nov. 5 to turn in your spoiled ballot there and get a new one before polls close at 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is it too late to register to vote?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. If you’re eligible to vote, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010355/last-chance-to-register-to-vote-california-deadline-election-2024-same-day-conditional-registration\">you can register in person and cast your vote all the way up until polls close\u003c/a> at 8 p.m. on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is possible through \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-registration/same-day-reg\">Same Day Voter Registration\u003c/a> (also known as conditional voter registration), and you can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010355/last-chance-to-register-to-vote-california-deadline-election-2024-same-day-conditional-registration\">use this to re-register\u003c/a> if you need to update your address or your legal name. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008419/ballot-drop-off-location-near-me-early-voting-site-election-2024\">Find your nearest polling place or voting location.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of how you deliver it, you can \u003ca href=\"https://california.ballottrax.net/voter/\">sign up to track your ballot’s progress with the “Where’s My Ballot?” online tool\u003c/a> and be reassured it’s on its way to being counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re still waiting to receive your ballot entirely, you can use that same tool to verify it was sent out or use \u003ca href=\"https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/\">voterstatus.sos.ca.gov\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008332/where-is-my-ballot-missing-presidential-election-2024\">Read more about what to do if your ballot has gone missing.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>If I’m voting at the last minute, do I have to fill out the whole ballot?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. In an ideal world, you’d have the time to read up on every measure and candidate on your ballot and make an informed choice about your vote on every single race. (This is the part where we remind you of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">the KQED Voter Guide\u003c/a>, which breaks down every race in the Bay Area and will be available online until polls close at 8 p.m. on Tuesday.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sometimes, things don’t work out that way — and while you might \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/president\">know your choice for president\u003c/a> or how you want to vote in the U.S. Senate contest, perhaps you’re less certain about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california\">the statewide propositions\u003c/a> or water district, and you’re running out of time to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, remember: You can vote in as many or as few races on your ballot as you want, and leaving certain races blank won’t invalidate your ballot or the other things you \u003cem>have \u003c/em>voted on.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"contact-my-county-elections-office\">\u003c/a>How can I contact my county directly about voting?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Across the Bay Area, elections officials are encouraging voters to reach out — early — with any questions or concerns. Here’s the contact information for your county:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acvote.org/index\">Alameda\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: For information about voting by mail, registration and polling place lookup, call 510-267-8683.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cocovote.us/\">Contra Costa\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Call 925-335-7800 or email voter.services@vote.cccounty.us.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv\">Marin\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Call 415-473-6456 or go to the Marin County elections webpage to \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/contact-us\">send a form email\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/396/Elections\">Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Call 707-253-4321 or email the elections office at elections@countyofnapa.org.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/\">San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Call 415-554-4375 or email sfvote@sfgov.org.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smcacre.org/elections\">San Mateo\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Call toll-free at 888-762-8683 or email registrar@smcacre.org.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Pages/Registrar-of-Voters.aspx\">\u003cstrong>Santa Clara\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Call toll-free at 866-430-VOTE (8683) or email registrar@rov.sccgov.org.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/rov/default.asp\">Solano\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: \u003c/strong>Call 707-784-6675 or toll-free at 888-933-VOTE (8683). 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We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID-19\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">coping with intense winter weather\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">exercising your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger and help us decide what to cover here on our site and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s finally Election Day: your last day to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t already voted, keep reading for everything you need to know about where you can vote in person today, where to drop off your ballot before polls close at 8 p.m. PST today and how to get a new ballot if you need one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#where-is-my-polling-place\">Where can I find my polling place on Election Day?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#mail-ballot-usps\">Should I mail my ballot today or use a drop box?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#contact-my-county-elections-office\">How can I contact my county directly about voting?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Or maybe you’re looking for last-minute information about what’s on your ballot before you submit it? \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">Take a look at KQED’s Voter Guide\u003c/a>, which unpacks ballot measures and compares candidates in every race in the Bay Area. It’ll be online until 8 p.m. tonight, after which time \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">it’ll become our election results page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"where-early-vote-ballot-dropoff\">\u003c/a>Where should I drop off my completed ballot on Election Day?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Dropping your ballot into a secure official ballot drop box means from there, it’ll go straight to your county elections office \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">—\u003c/span> and it’ll be processed and counted quicker.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also return your ballot in person to your county election office, any voting site or a drive-through ballot drop-off location up to 8 p.m. on Nov. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find your nearest ballot drop box or voting location, visit the \u003ca href=\"https://caearlyvoting.sos.ca.gov/\">state of California lookup tool:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Enter your county (adding your city or ZIP code will give more localized results, but it’s optional)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Check the “Early Voting” and/or “Drop Off Location” boxes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hit “Search” to see all the drop-off locations in that area, as well as the voting locations where you can vote in person or drop off a ballot.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>(In 2020, we had a lot of people asking us if you could drop off your ballot in a drop box that isn’t actually in your county if that’s more convenient to you. And the answer is: “Yes, you can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California election officials say they have eight days after receiving your ballot to forward it to your actual county to be processed. This will, of course, give your ballot another journey to make and will mean it doesn’t get to your own county’s election officials as fast as it could — which may affect your decision.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mail-ballot-usps\">\u003c/a>Can’t I still use a USPS collection box to submit my ballot?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, you \u003cem>could\u003c/em> still mail your completed ballot via the USPS at any collection box. The envelope doesn’t require a stamp, and it’ll be counted as long as it’s postmarked by Nov. 5 (i.e., it makes the last postal collection on Election Day.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in order to count your ballot, your county elections office must receive it no later than Nov. 12, one week after Election Day. And sometimes, even ballots mailed through USPS on time don’t make it to the county elections office by that “one week after Election Day” deadline to be counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While USPS is not reporting any particular delays, the agency said it “anticipates similar service performance as demonstrated in the 2020 general election,” in which 99.89% of ballots mailed from voters nationwide to election officials were delivered within a week. This, of course, means that 0.11% nationwide — around 715,000 ballots — were \u003cem>not \u003c/em>successfully delivered to county elections offices in time to be counted, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/11/10/most-mail-and-provisional-ballots-got-counted-in-past-u-s-elections-but-many-did-not/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the number of overall ballots cast that year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, some people who mail their ballot on Election Day before 8 p.m. may \u003ci>think \u003c/i>they’ve successfully gotten it in on time but have accidentally placed it in a USPS collection box that’s past its last collection for the day — which in many places is 5 p.m. or earlier. That means your ballot won’t be postmarked on Nov. 5, and your county elections office won’t count your vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All in all, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008419/ballot-drop-off-location-near-me-early-voting-site-election-2024\">delivering your ballot by hand via a drop-box or at a voting location\u003c/a> by 8 p.m. on Nov. 5 guarantees it’ll reach your county elections office, bringing you peace of mind that you’ve made the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need to know about voting in the 2024 general election right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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So check there first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the advice ranges from “X out the incorrect choice and fill in the oval of your actual choice” to “get a new ballot entirely.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003469/election-2024-how-to-correct-a-mistake-on-your-ballot-correction#how-to-correct-mistake-ballot\">See what your county said here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’ve really messed up your ballot (coffee spills happen), remember you can go to \u003ca href=\"https://caearlyvoting.sos.ca.gov/\">your county elections office or a voting location\u003c/a> on Nov. 5 to turn in your spoiled ballot there and get a new one before polls close at 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is it too late to register to vote?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. If you’re eligible to vote, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010355/last-chance-to-register-to-vote-california-deadline-election-2024-same-day-conditional-registration\">you can register in person and cast your vote all the way up until polls close\u003c/a> at 8 p.m. on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is possible through \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-registration/same-day-reg\">Same Day Voter Registration\u003c/a> (also known as conditional voter registration), and you can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010355/last-chance-to-register-to-vote-california-deadline-election-2024-same-day-conditional-registration\">use this to re-register\u003c/a> if you need to update your address or your legal name. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008419/ballot-drop-off-location-near-me-early-voting-site-election-2024\">Find your nearest polling place or voting location.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of how you deliver it, you can \u003ca href=\"https://california.ballottrax.net/voter/\">sign up to track your ballot’s progress with the “Where’s My Ballot?” online tool\u003c/a> and be reassured it’s on its way to being counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re still waiting to receive your ballot entirely, you can use that same tool to verify it was sent out or use \u003ca href=\"https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/\">voterstatus.sos.ca.gov\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008332/where-is-my-ballot-missing-presidential-election-2024\">Read more about what to do if your ballot has gone missing.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>If I’m voting at the last minute, do I have to fill out the whole ballot?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. In an ideal world, you’d have the time to read up on every measure and candidate on your ballot and make an informed choice about your vote on every single race. (This is the part where we remind you of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">the KQED Voter Guide\u003c/a>, which breaks down every race in the Bay Area and will be available online until polls close at 8 p.m. on Tuesday.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sometimes, things don’t work out that way — and while you might \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/president\">know your choice for president\u003c/a> or how you want to vote in the U.S. Senate contest, perhaps you’re less certain about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california\">the statewide propositions\u003c/a> or water district, and you’re running out of time to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, remember: You can vote in as many or as few races on your ballot as you want, and leaving certain races blank won’t invalidate your ballot or the other things you \u003cem>have \u003c/em>voted on.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"contact-my-county-elections-office\">\u003c/a>How can I contact my county directly about voting?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Across the Bay Area, elections officials are encouraging voters to reach out — early — with any questions or concerns. 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"content": "\u003cp>While San Francisco’s mayoral race is likely the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">most expensive\u003c/a> in at least 20 years, money is also pouring into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sanfrancisco/races#supervisor-district-1\">Board of Supervisors elections\u003c/a> — especially where battles are brewing between progressive incumbents and candidates running to their right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the money is being raised and spent by moderate political action groups, which have grown in numbers and power over the last four years. This year, the wealthy tech investors and real estate interests \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/explore-big-money-san-francisco-growsf-togethersf-neighbors-larsen-moritz-tan-web/\">backing the groups\u003c/a> are angling to have an outsize say in some of the city’s tight races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this consequential election cycle, they’ve been pushing for a harsher crackdown on homelessness and the fentanyl crisis, more market-rate housing, public school reform and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the most influential are Grow SF, which was founded by two tech workers and funded by Silicon Valley founders like Chris Larsen, Garry Tan and his Y Combinator high-ups; \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999003/billionaire-backed-moderate-political-group-hit-with-ethics-fine-for-2022-chesa-boudin-recall\">Neighbors for a Better San Francisco\u003c/a>, which has been backed by major Republican donor William Oberndorf and other wealthy Silicon Valley leaders as well as real estate interests like Kilroy Realty; and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992466/san-francisco-sees-competing-proposals-to-reform-byzantine-city-commissions\">Together SF\u003c/a>, which is funded in large part by venture capitalist Michael Moritz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their chief targets include \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dean-preston\">Supervisor Dean Preston\u003c/a>, who has become a lightning rod for the anti-progressive movement in San Francisco and is running for reelection in what has become the most expensive Board of Supervisors race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1853197073908424942\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the largest contributions in the District 5 election come from Larsen and Tan, along with Y Combinator co-founder Jessica Livingston and current visiting partner Emmett Shear. Each has donated $50,000 to a Grow SF political action committee aimed at ousting Preston from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the latest in a string of efforts by big-money moderate groups to reshape San Francisco’s political landscape. The groups helped fund the recalls of progressive District Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">Chesa Boudin\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904879/sf-school-board-recall-results-alison-collins-gabriela-lopez-and-faauuga-moliga-headed-for-recall\">three school board members\u003c/a> in 2022. In March, moderates took control of the city’s official Democratic Party, flipping the previously progressive Democratic County Central Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve created a system in which whichever way the wealthiest Americans happen to feel about our politics, that side of things gets a gigantic megaphone to talk about their views,” said Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of nonprofit good-government advocacy group California Common Cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big money groups often fund TV ads and mailers, which can only be so effective, Mehta Stein said. However, in San Francisco, they have built coalitions of support to become extremely effective in the city’s recent elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big money in San Francisco has gotten very smart and is putting money into those sort of traditional forms of political advertising, but also is using their money to build civic organizations and a broader civic infrastructure,” he said. “When you pair that sort of people power funded by big money with campaign advertising funded by big money, I think it’s a very powerful and potent combination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston speaks to a local resident at a bus stop at McAllister and Divisadero in San Francisco on June 13 while campaigning for reelection to the Board of Supervisors District 5. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Grow SF’s PAC, for example, has poured money into Preston’s opposition. The “Dump Dean” campaign has raised nearly $300,000. It created a website listing 31 reasons to oppose Preston and commissioned billboards around the district blasting his housing record — while they say he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992055/san-francisco-supervisor-defends-housing-record-calling-lawsuit-a-publicity-stunt\">blocks development\u003c/a>, he has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997837/yimby-lawsuit-over-sf-supervisor-dean-prestons-housing-record-is-thrown-out\">staunchly defended\u003c/a> his pro-housing platform. Some of the billboards express support for Preston’s main challenger, Bilal Mahmood, a tech entrepreneur himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston’s and Mahmood’s campaigns have each raised around half a million dollars. Scotty Jacobs and Autumn Looijen — two other moderates in the race who have voiced strong opposition to Preston — have each raised almost $140,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big-money donors have been integral in funding Preston’s opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilary Shirazi, a Grow SF board member, gave $10,000 to the organization’s PAC to oust Preston. She and fellow board member Carolyn Chatham each donated $500 to Mahmood. Tech founder Zack Rosen, co-founder of another group, Abundant SF, and former Larsen colleague Asheesh Birla have also donated to Mahmood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The network of funders is also involved in District 1, where another Grow SF PAC, colloquially called “Clear Out Connie Chan,” is spending to oust the progressive supervisor. It has raised about $82,000, while Chan and her main opponent, Marjan Philhour, have each raised between $400,000 and $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sanfrancisco,San Francisco: Your Voter Guide to Navigate the Candidates and Issues on Your Ballot' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Voter-Guide-Local-Elections-San-Francisco-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Grow SF backers are among Philhour’s donors. Jeremy Liew — who was a major contributor to Grow SF’s efforts to recall Boudin — has given to Philhour’s campaign, along with Zynga founder Mark Pincus and real estate developer Nick Podell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late in the lead-up to Election Day, one of the first and most endowed of the groups — Neighbors for a Better San Francisco — also jumped into a supervisors’ race, this one through a proxy committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group donated $75,000 this week to a committee opposed to closing the Upper Great Highway and backing District 7 candidate Matt Boschetto. Boschetto, who created the anti-Proposition K committee, is challenging incumbent Myrna Melgar, who represents West Portal, the Inner Sunset and much of the west side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money donated to his committee opposing Proposition K can, in practice, be used to promote him if the money goes toward door-knocking, canvassing or putting out mailers and ads coupled with his stance that the highway should remain open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors for a Better San Francisco board member Steve Merrill has also donated $25,500 to support Boschetto — the maximum $500 to him directly and $25,000 more to a committee backing his run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the influx of money shifts San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors toward the center remains to be seen after polls close Tuesday. 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In March, moderates took control of the city’s official Democratic Party, flipping the previously progressive Democratic County Central Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve created a system in which whichever way the wealthiest Americans happen to feel about our politics, that side of things gets a gigantic megaphone to talk about their views,” said Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of nonprofit good-government advocacy group California Common Cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big money groups often fund TV ads and mailers, which can only be so effective, Mehta Stein said. However, in San Francisco, they have built coalitions of support to become extremely effective in the city’s recent elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big money in San Francisco has gotten very smart and is putting money into those sort of traditional forms of political advertising, but also is using their money to build civic organizations and a broader civic infrastructure,” he said. “When you pair that sort of people power funded by big money with campaign advertising funded by big money, I think it’s a very powerful and potent combination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston speaks to a local resident at a bus stop at McAllister and Divisadero in San Francisco on June 13 while campaigning for reelection to the Board of Supervisors District 5. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Grow SF’s PAC, for example, has poured money into Preston’s opposition. 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The settlement was announced on the eve of Election Day and comes on the heels of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-mayor-election\">a tight race\u003c/a> that has been studded with ethics complaints against Farrell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This record penalty reflects the serious harm that was done to the public’s right to have timely and accurate information about how campaigns are funded in San Francisco,” Enforcement Director Olabisi Matthews said in a statement. “It also reflects the severity of violating the $500 contribution limit, which is one of the most basic rules that all candidates have to follow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, Farrell’s opponents and critics — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008288/former-san-francisco-mayors-call-for-investigation-into-mark-farrells-campaign-financing\">including three former San Francisco mayors\u003c/a> — alleged that Farrell’s campaign had skirted campaign finance rules by taking advantage of contributions to a political action committee Farrell created to support Proposition D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individual campaign contributions to candidates are capped at $500. However, the same limits don’t apply to ballot measures, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sanfrancisco/propositions#proposition-d\">Proposition D\u003c/a> — which aims to cut the number of city commissions in half and cap it at 65 — has raked in millions of dollars from billionaires like venture capitalist Michael Moritz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission alleges that Farrell’s mayoral campaign took $93,000 in contributions from his Proposition D PAC without refunding it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Investigators calculate the outstanding payments from the Ballot Measure Committee to account for approximately 50% of all staff salary, canvassers, rent, insurance, utility, contractor, and food and drink expenses for the Mayoral Committee between April and September,” a letter from the Ethics Commission reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sanfrancisco,San Francisco: Your Voter Guide to Navigate the Candidates and Issues on Your Ballot' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Voter-Guide-Local-Elections-San-Francisco-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell attributed the issue to an accounting error from earlier this summer that was previously resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We agreed to a settlement for an accounting error that we corrected and publicly disclosed months ago and over a disagreement about staff time allocation during the campaign, which led us to terminate our prior legal counsel for this matter,” Farrell said in a statement. “As the person responsible for both campaigns, I take full ownership of these issues — this is the kind of accountability I am modeling for my children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time Farrell, or his leading opponents for mayor, have faced campaign finance questions or fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell was similarly fined $191,000 — which would have been the largest ethics violation fine in the city’s history — after being accused of illegally coordinating with a PAC during his campaign for supervisor in 2010. In 2016, he agreed to settle the case and paid $25,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, incumbent Mayor London Breed paid $22,000 in fines related to ethics violations for using her official title for personal gain during her tenure. In 2018, Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, now a candidate for mayor, faced an $8,000 fine for ads placed in Chinese-language newspapers during his 2015 campaign for supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell, meanwhile, said he is calling on the Ethics Commission to create better guidelines around the issue, saying “the public deserves certainty and transparency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some political watchdogs questioned the timing of the commission’s announcement, one day before polls close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since the allegations at issue have been widely reported and the facts and legal issues are complex and contested, it does not appear to me that the Ethics Commission should have expedited this case toward a pre-election announcement, which could influence the voters,” Dan Schnur, former chairman of the California Fair Political Practices Commission, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews disagreed, saying that the Ethics Commission “did everything in its power to publicly resolve this case prior to Election Day so that the public would have information about these violations when it matters most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ethics Commission will vote on the settlement at its meeting on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The 64-year-old has spent the last few weeks traveling the state and country campaigning with Democrats locked in tough fights for the Senate and House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, Schiff campaigned with Democratic House candidates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010811/balance-of-power-democrats-are-hoping-an-aerospace-executive-can-beat-a-republican-navy-combat-pilot\">George Whitesides\u003c/a> in Los Angeles County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007594/democrats-are-hoping-to-flip-this-central-valley-house-seat-it-wont-be-easy\">Rudy Salas\u003c/a> in the Bakersfield area and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011869/young-voters-could-decide-key-central-valley-congressional-race\">Adam Gray\u003c/a> in the Central Valley. He has also campaigned in Orange County with Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008573/asian-american-voters-are-key-in-this-orange-county-congressional-race\">Derek Tran\u003c/a>, who is challenging Republican incumbent Michelle Steel, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011642/how-the-diploma-divide-is-reshaping-politics-in-a-key-california-house-race\">Dave Min\u003c/a>, who is vying to succeed Katie Porter after she gave up the seat to run against Schiff in the Senate primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re all ahead at the moment, so I’m pretty optimistic about all of them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 California Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide,Learn everything you need to cast an informed ballot for the 2024 general election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Voter-Guide-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to helping fellow Democrats in California win their election, Schiff is also making friends with people he hopes will be his colleagues in the Senate come January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past week, he has appeared with U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen in Nevada and Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin, in addition to making a swing through Arizona to help Senate candidate Ruben Gallego. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to helping fellow Democrats in California win their election, Schiff is also making friends with people he hopes will be his colleagues in the Senate come January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past week, he has appeared with U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen in Nevada and Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin, in addition to making a swing through Arizona to help Senate candidate Ruben Gallego. Gallego hopes to replace Kyrsten Sinema, the former Democrat who became an independent in 2022 and chose not to run for reelection. Schiff also attended a Democratic fundraiser in Minneapolis with Sen. Amy Klobuchar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’ll need allies if, as expected, he wins this race. The 2016 retirement of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006391/barbara-boxer-is-retired-but-still-deeply-engaged-in-politics\">Sen. Barbara Boxer\u003c/a>, Harris’ vacating her Senate seat to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855838/vice-president-elect-harris-formally-resigns-senate-seat-gov-newsom-appoints-replacement\">become President Biden’s vice president\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946670/dianne-feinstein-californias-longest-serving-us-senator-dies-at-age-90\">death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein\u003c/a> have left California with two relatively junior senators in a chamber where seniority helps determine committee assignments and overall clout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff said that if he wins, his top priority in the Senate will be addressing the “twin” issues facing Californians: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">housing and homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be building hundreds of thousands of units every year. We need to be able to build them quickly. We need to be able to build them affordably,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/42b060s9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley IGS Poll\u003c/a> published Friday showed him holding a 21-point lead over his Republican opponent, Steve Garvey, 55% to 34%, with 11% undecided, a margin similar to the last two IGS polls since the March primary. He’s also vastly outraised Garvey, 75, since the March primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/dcronin\">\u003cem>Dana Cronin\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Dr. Sophia Yen finds it difficult to talk about the future her daughters could face under a second Trump presidency without tearing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yen, co-founder of an organization specializing in reproductive care, fears their access to such vital care could be further limited if former President Donald Trump wins the election. And she’s not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do I get two girls through college?” Yen asked, pointing to the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.aau.edu/sites/default/files/AAU-Files/Key-Issues/Campus-Safety/Revised%20Aggregate%20report%20%20and%20appendices%201-7_(01-16-2020_FINAL).pdf\">1 in 4 undergraduate women\u003c/a> have reported being sexually assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, she said, reproductive rights have “already gone back. And we need to fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\">overturned \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2022, spurring some states to limit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/abortion\">access to abortion\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2825201?guestAccessKey=e7e9550e-5563-4801-bc4f-b743bed9ccff&utm_source=for_the_media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=102124\">infant mortality rates increased\u003c/a> — in Texas, by \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2819785\">as much as 13%\u003c/a>. Pinning down the \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/tracking-maternal-deaths-under-abortion-bans\">maternal mortality rate\u003c/a> is harder. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/scorecard/2024/jul/2024-state-scorecard-womens-health-and-reproductive-care\">a recent study\u003c/a> from the Commonwealth Fund, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-18/maternal-deaths-were-highest-in-states-that-restrict-abortion\">women were more at risk\u003c/a> of dying at or around childbirth in \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-18/maternal-deaths-were-highest-in-states-that-restrict-abortion\">states with stricter abortion laws\u003c/a>. In Texas, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/texas-abortion-ban-deaths-pregnant-women-sb8-analysis-rcna171631\">maternal mortality rate rose 56%\u003c/a> from 2019 to 2022, while nationally, it ticked up 11%, according to the research nonprofit Gender Equity Policy Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/645836/record-share-electorate-pro-choice-voting.aspx\">Gallup Poll\u003c/a> released this summer, 54% of Americans identify as pro-choice, maintaining “historically high levels” of support for abortion rights since the overturning of \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em>. And 32% of registered voters said they would only vote for a candidate that shared the same views as them on abortion, up 8 points since 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an election featuring two candidates with wildly differing views on abortion who are \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-lead-over-trump-dwindles-single-point-44-43-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-10-29/\">polling extremely closely\u003c/a>, Bay Area residents and experts are left to wait and see what the future of healthcare holds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though \u003ca href=\"https://abortion.ca.gov/your-rights/your-legal-right-to-an-abortion/index.html\">state laws\u003c/a> protect the right to an abortion in California, Yen — who is also a professor at Stanford Medical School — said the stakes are still high for abortion-rights voters in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Californians, we think we’re protected,” she said. “But we’re not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What could reproductive health care look like under a second Trump term?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Though the Dobbs decision, which overturned \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em>, left it to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/04/18/human-rights-crisis-abortion-united-states-after-dobbs\">states to regulate abortion\u003c/a>, Nancy Cohen of \u003ca href=\"https://thegepi.org/about/\">the Gender Equity Policy Institute\u003c/a> said, “A national abortion ban is absolutely coming” if Trump is elected a second time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project 2025 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998288/what-is-project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-director-steps-down\">a detailed, 900-page policy agenda for the next Republican presidency\u003c/a> authored and supported by Trump allies, former and current Trump staffers and his running mate JD Vance — has called for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/09/project2025-trump-california-abortion-surveillance/\">a national database\u003c/a> where states would report abortions. Cohen described this proposal as “basically Big Brother.”[aside postID=news_11998288 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162596915-scaled.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project 2025 also aims to revive parts of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025s-distortion-of-a-reconstruction-era-law-could-enact-a-national-abortion-ban/\">Comstock Act\u003c/a>, a law from the late 1800s that bans the mailing of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/the-comstock-act-implications-for-abortion-care-nationwide/\">“obscene” items\u003c/a> such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-anthony-comstocks-chastity-laws/\">contraceptives\u003c/a>. (The act faced intense criticism at the time and was restricted in 1930, but it was \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7014473/comstock-act-project-2025/\">never fully repealed\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em> overruled it, and when \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em> was overturned, the Biden administration said it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/application-comstock-act-mailing-prescription-drugs-can-be-used-abortions\">not apply\u003c/a> the Comstock Act.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“States like California and New York that have constitutional protections for abortion rights and reproductive health care in general … those become meaningless,” Cohen said. “Federal law will trump state protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Trump term would mean he could \u003ca href=\"https://nysba.org/6-to-3-the-impact-of-the-supreme-courts-conservative-super-majority/\">appoint more conservative-leaning\u003c/a> Supreme Court justices and federal judges. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/14/1238102768/fetal-personhood-alabama-ivf\">In states like Alabama\u003c/a>, Cohen noted, right-leaning judges have increasingly wielded arguments that personhood begins at conception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something like that would outlaw the IUD,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the anti-abortion movement believes that they should also \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf\">outlaw birth control\u003c/a>,” Cohen said. “So we are looking at really terrifying scenarios under a Trump presidency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the Supreme Court still has the final say\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Experts predict the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/nx-s1-5161578/supreme-court-harris-trump\">future of the judicial branch\u003c/a> will also be a political battle, depending on who wins the presidency and the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, if Kamala Harris is elected president but Republicans take control of the Senate, her administration is likely to struggle to get appointments to lower courts confirmed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/nx-s1-5161578/supreme-court-harris-trump\">similar to Barack Obama’s term\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yen hopes that if there is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001799/kamala-harris-put-abortion-at-the-center-of-the-election-what-her-california-record-shows\">a Harris presidency\u003c/a>, Democrats would “become bold enough to balance the court” — \u003ca href=\"https://demandjustice.org/priorities/supreme-court-reform/\">a common call\u003c/a> from left-leaning advocates critical of lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, President Joe Biden \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-potomac-watch/kamala-harris-wants-to-reform-the-supreme-court/af03b7fe-5e17-44de-ac6d-cd4d0c0e0a63\">endorsed the idea of term limits\u003c/a> for justices in the country’s highest court. While Harris disavowed “\u003ca href=\"https://www.rutgers.edu/news/what-court-packing\">court-packing\u003c/a>,” she has called for \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-potomac-watch/kamala-harris-wants-to-reform-the-supreme-court/af03b7fe-5e17-44de-ac6d-cd4d0c0e0a63\">reforms in the Supreme Court\u003c/a>, citing a growing lack of trust in the judicial branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current people on the Supreme Court are not neutral on reproductive rights, are not neutral on abortion, not neutral on reproductive freedom, and seem to tend towards a theocracy,” Yen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012287\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012287\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Sophia Yen, an advocate of women’s health rights, wears a uterus necklace at her home in Los Altos on Nov. 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How reproductive rights show up in California’s local races\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates stress that the stakes of reproductive health in the U.S. do not just lie with the executive office and the Supreme Court. Democrats need just \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-democrats-could-take-the-house\">five seats to win control of the House\u003c/a>, and whether this happens “really depends on elections in California and New York,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, when Senate Republicans blocked \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/06/05/senate-vote-right-to-contraception-act-birth-control-access/\">the Right to Contraception Act\u003c/a>, San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi wrote in a statement that GOP resistance “should come as no surprise,” citing the 195 Republicans who voted against the House’s version of the act in 2022. Though eight House Republicans voted in favor of the act, \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/the-8-republicans-vote-to-protect-federal-right-to-contraception-2022-7\">none of them\u003c/a> were from California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Republicans who voted against the 2022 act are up for reelection. They include \u003ca href=\"https://justfacts.votesmart.org/bill/33019/87001/26777/right-to-contraception-act#87001\">Rep. Ken Calvert\u003c/a>, who is facing a challenge from Democrat Will Rollins in Southern California’s Riverside County. (Calvert said he supported competing Republican-backed bills that \u003ca href=\"https://calvert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-calvert-votes-expand-access-contraceptives\">expanded contraceptive use\u003c/a> but kept protections for religious health care providers.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Central Valley, Rep. David Valadao, who co-sponsored the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1011\">Life at Conception Act in 2022\u003c/a>, is running against Democrat Rudy Salas. The anti-abortion incumbent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article294294674.html\">did not co-sponsor\u003c/a> the legislation again in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Yen, these Democratic challengers “could help us gain control in the House for those that support reproductive rights, voting rights and \u003ca href=\"https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/08/26/jewish-congregations-mount-legal-challenges-to-state-abortion-bans/\">freedom of religion\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Californians who care about abortion rights and live in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/10/california-abortion-election-congress/\">one of these districts\u003c/a>, it’s very important to look at their record and see a lot of them are obfuscating and outright lying about where they are on this issue,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the local level, anti-abortion candidates for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959451/culture-wars-escalate-as-state-takes-on-school-boards-over-lgbtq-rights\">school boards\u003c/a> and city councils could potentially also seek to enact “really extreme measures that are out of sync with Californians’ inclusive and pro-rights values,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californian votes really matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11926872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11926872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF.jpg\" alt='A crowd of people gather holding signs with messages like, \"My body, my choice\" written on them in colorful marker.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of people gather during a rally for abortion rights outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on May 3, 2022, as part of a nationwide response against the leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s decision that ultimately overturned Roe v. Wade. Recent polling shows 71% of Californians say they’ll vote yes on Proposition 1, which would enshrine abortion and contraception access into the state constitution. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>California abortion — for residents and visitors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California has stronger protections for reproductive rights than much of the country, especially after voters added the right to an abortion to the state constitution in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, reports have shown that people in the state’s rural areas have a hard time accessing care due to the lack of facilities nearby that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934819/for-rural-californians-abortion-is-legal-but-its-not-always-accessible\">can perform abortions\u003c/a>. Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007119/california-sues-a-catholic-hospital-for-denying-patient-an-emergency-abortion\">the state sued a Catholic hospital\u003c/a> for refusing to perform an emergency abortion. The patient in question, Dr. Anna Nusslock, was rushed to another hospital for a life-saving surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last week, the attorney general’s office found that Beverly Hills officials had \u003ca href=\"https://www.oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-holds-beverly-hills-accountable-preventing-reproductive\">pressured a landlord\u003c/a> to prevent an abortion clinic from opening.[aside postID=news_12001799 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031424_Kamala-Reproductive-Health_AP_CM_01-copy.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is troubling that, even here in California where access to reproductive healthcare is a constitutional right, Beverly Hills officials have taken actions reminiscent of those in extremist red states by illegally interfering with, and ultimately preventing a new reproductive healthcare clinic from opening,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also the influx of \u003ca href=\"https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-orange-san-bernardino/about-us/news/demand-has-quadrupled-at-some-california-abortion-clinics-since-roe-fell\">out-of-state patients\u003c/a> traveling to California for abortion care when access is restricted in their own states, leading to increased wait times and crowded clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area “provides care for the millions of women of reproductive age in the region” and out of state, Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the system is a little stressed,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://thegepi.org/gepi-sfdosw-report-bay-area-abortion-rights/\">citing the need\u003c/a> for “better coordination” and increased resources across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Katherine Brown, medical director of the \u003ca href=\"https://obgyn.ucsf.edu/gynecology/katherine-brown-md-mas\">Black Wellness Clinic at UCSF\u003c/a>, said she and her colleagues have seen “people from all over the country more than we did before. We have patients coming from places like Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My patients already went through a lot prior to the Dobbs decision. But now, they have to go through a lot more hoops to even get the care that they need,” she said, noting the high costs of such cross-country travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always wonder about the people that don’t make it,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974146\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President Kamala Harris is pictured sitting in a yellow seat on a stage.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the ‘Fight for Reproductive Freedoms’ tour at Mexican Heritage Plaza in San José on Jan. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What could a Harris presidency look like when it comes to reproductive rights?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a California prosecutor, Harris had a strong record of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001799/kamala-harris-put-abortion-at-the-center-of-the-election-what-her-california-record-shows\">protecting abortion rights\u003c/a>. She has said that if she were to win the presidency, she would \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7096543/kamala-harris-abortion-plan-2024/\">sign a bill\u003c/a> reinstating \u003cem>Roe’s\u003c/em> protections into law if Congress passes it. Harris could also use her authority to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/31/g-s1-31186/up-first-newsletter-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theories-kamala-harris-donald-trump-abortion-policies\">strengthen privacy laws\u003c/a>, which could protect people with uteruses from being prosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said there are opportunities with this election to amend the inequities that have faced some Americans. For example, she said \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em> was “imperfect” — noting that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/the-hyde-amendment-and-coverage-for-abortion-services-under-medicaid-in-the-post-roe-era/#:~:text=Starting%20in%201977%2C%20the%20Hyde,result%20from%20rape%20or%20incest.\">due to federal law\u003c/a>, many people on Medicaid could not have the costs of their abortion covered. (California’s version of the program, Medi-Cal, \u003ca href=\"https://mcweb.apps.prd.cammis.medi-cal.ca.gov/assets/26092CC9-AAAF-432E-A672-85D649215F8A/abort.pdf?access_token=6UyVkRRfByXTZEWIh8j8QaYylPyP5ULO\">does cover abortion\u003c/a>, however.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Access to abortion needs to be a protected right no matter where you are,” she said. “Insurance needs to be able to cover it, no matter what type of insurance you have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she is anxious for Election Day, she said she is also “guardedly hopeful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the opportunity to move beyond \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em> and find something that’s better,” she said. “That really honors reproductive freedom, reproductive autonomy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that’s where I find my hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project 2025 also aims to revive parts of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025s-distortion-of-a-reconstruction-era-law-could-enact-a-national-abortion-ban/\">Comstock Act\u003c/a>, a law from the late 1800s that bans the mailing of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/the-comstock-act-implications-for-abortion-care-nationwide/\">“obscene” items\u003c/a> such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-anthony-comstocks-chastity-laws/\">contraceptives\u003c/a>. (The act faced intense criticism at the time and was restricted in 1930, but it was \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7014473/comstock-act-project-2025/\">never fully repealed\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em> overruled it, and when \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em> was overturned, the Biden administration said it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/application-comstock-act-mailing-prescription-drugs-can-be-used-abortions\">not apply\u003c/a> the Comstock Act.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“States like California and New York that have constitutional protections for abortion rights and reproductive health care in general … those become meaningless,” Cohen said. “Federal law will trump state protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Trump term would mean he could \u003ca href=\"https://nysba.org/6-to-3-the-impact-of-the-supreme-courts-conservative-super-majority/\">appoint more conservative-leaning\u003c/a> Supreme Court justices and federal judges. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/14/1238102768/fetal-personhood-alabama-ivf\">In states like Alabama\u003c/a>, Cohen noted, right-leaning judges have increasingly wielded arguments that personhood begins at conception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something like that would outlaw the IUD,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the anti-abortion movement believes that they should also \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf\">outlaw birth control\u003c/a>,” Cohen said. “So we are looking at really terrifying scenarios under a Trump presidency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the Supreme Court still has the final say\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Experts predict the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/nx-s1-5161578/supreme-court-harris-trump\">future of the judicial branch\u003c/a> will also be a political battle, depending on who wins the presidency and the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, if Kamala Harris is elected president but Republicans take control of the Senate, her administration is likely to struggle to get appointments to lower courts confirmed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/nx-s1-5161578/supreme-court-harris-trump\">similar to Barack Obama’s term\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yen hopes that if there is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001799/kamala-harris-put-abortion-at-the-center-of-the-election-what-her-california-record-shows\">a Harris presidency\u003c/a>, Democrats would “become bold enough to balance the court” — \u003ca href=\"https://demandjustice.org/priorities/supreme-court-reform/\">a common call\u003c/a> from left-leaning advocates critical of lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, President Joe Biden \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-potomac-watch/kamala-harris-wants-to-reform-the-supreme-court/af03b7fe-5e17-44de-ac6d-cd4d0c0e0a63\">endorsed the idea of term limits\u003c/a> for justices in the country’s highest court. While Harris disavowed “\u003ca href=\"https://www.rutgers.edu/news/what-court-packing\">court-packing\u003c/a>,” she has called for \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-potomac-watch/kamala-harris-wants-to-reform-the-supreme-court/af03b7fe-5e17-44de-ac6d-cd4d0c0e0a63\">reforms in the Supreme Court\u003c/a>, citing a growing lack of trust in the judicial branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current people on the Supreme Court are not neutral on reproductive rights, are not neutral on abortion, not neutral on reproductive freedom, and seem to tend towards a theocracy,” Yen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012287\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012287\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Sophia Yen, an advocate of women’s health rights, wears a uterus necklace at her home in Los Altos on Nov. 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How reproductive rights show up in California’s local races\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates stress that the stakes of reproductive health in the U.S. do not just lie with the executive office and the Supreme Court. Democrats need just \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-democrats-could-take-the-house\">five seats to win control of the House\u003c/a>, and whether this happens “really depends on elections in California and New York,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, when Senate Republicans blocked \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/06/05/senate-vote-right-to-contraception-act-birth-control-access/\">the Right to Contraception Act\u003c/a>, San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi wrote in a statement that GOP resistance “should come as no surprise,” citing the 195 Republicans who voted against the House’s version of the act in 2022. Though eight House Republicans voted in favor of the act, \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/the-8-republicans-vote-to-protect-federal-right-to-contraception-2022-7\">none of them\u003c/a> were from California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Republicans who voted against the 2022 act are up for reelection. They include \u003ca href=\"https://justfacts.votesmart.org/bill/33019/87001/26777/right-to-contraception-act#87001\">Rep. Ken Calvert\u003c/a>, who is facing a challenge from Democrat Will Rollins in Southern California’s Riverside County. (Calvert said he supported competing Republican-backed bills that \u003ca href=\"https://calvert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-calvert-votes-expand-access-contraceptives\">expanded contraceptive use\u003c/a> but kept protections for religious health care providers.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Central Valley, Rep. David Valadao, who co-sponsored the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1011\">Life at Conception Act in 2022\u003c/a>, is running against Democrat Rudy Salas. The anti-abortion incumbent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article294294674.html\">did not co-sponsor\u003c/a> the legislation again in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Yen, these Democratic challengers “could help us gain control in the House for those that support reproductive rights, voting rights and \u003ca href=\"https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/08/26/jewish-congregations-mount-legal-challenges-to-state-abortion-bans/\">freedom of religion\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Californians who care about abortion rights and live in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/10/california-abortion-election-congress/\">one of these districts\u003c/a>, it’s very important to look at their record and see a lot of them are obfuscating and outright lying about where they are on this issue,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the local level, anti-abortion candidates for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959451/culture-wars-escalate-as-state-takes-on-school-boards-over-lgbtq-rights\">school boards\u003c/a> and city councils could potentially also seek to enact “really extreme measures that are out of sync with Californians’ inclusive and pro-rights values,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californian votes really matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11926872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11926872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF.jpg\" alt='A crowd of people gather holding signs with messages like, \"My body, my choice\" written on them in colorful marker.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of people gather during a rally for abortion rights outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on May 3, 2022, as part of a nationwide response against the leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s decision that ultimately overturned Roe v. Wade. Recent polling shows 71% of Californians say they’ll vote yes on Proposition 1, which would enshrine abortion and contraception access into the state constitution. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>California abortion — for residents and visitors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California has stronger protections for reproductive rights than much of the country, especially after voters added the right to an abortion to the state constitution in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, reports have shown that people in the state’s rural areas have a hard time accessing care due to the lack of facilities nearby that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934819/for-rural-californians-abortion-is-legal-but-its-not-always-accessible\">can perform abortions\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is troubling that, even here in California where access to reproductive healthcare is a constitutional right, Beverly Hills officials have taken actions reminiscent of those in extremist red states by illegally interfering with, and ultimately preventing a new reproductive healthcare clinic from opening,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also the influx of \u003ca href=\"https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-orange-san-bernardino/about-us/news/demand-has-quadrupled-at-some-california-abortion-clinics-since-roe-fell\">out-of-state patients\u003c/a> traveling to California for abortion care when access is restricted in their own states, leading to increased wait times and crowded clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area “provides care for the millions of women of reproductive age in the region” and out of state, Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the system is a little stressed,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://thegepi.org/gepi-sfdosw-report-bay-area-abortion-rights/\">citing the need\u003c/a> for “better coordination” and increased resources across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Katherine Brown, medical director of the \u003ca href=\"https://obgyn.ucsf.edu/gynecology/katherine-brown-md-mas\">Black Wellness Clinic at UCSF\u003c/a>, said she and her colleagues have seen “people from all over the country more than we did before. We have patients coming from places like Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My patients already went through a lot prior to the Dobbs decision. But now, they have to go through a lot more hoops to even get the care that they need,” she said, noting the high costs of such cross-country travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always wonder about the people that don’t make it,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974146\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President Kamala Harris is pictured sitting in a yellow seat on a stage.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the ‘Fight for Reproductive Freedoms’ tour at Mexican Heritage Plaza in San José on Jan. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What could a Harris presidency look like when it comes to reproductive rights?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a California prosecutor, Harris had a strong record of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001799/kamala-harris-put-abortion-at-the-center-of-the-election-what-her-california-record-shows\">protecting abortion rights\u003c/a>. She has said that if she were to win the presidency, she would \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7096543/kamala-harris-abortion-plan-2024/\">sign a bill\u003c/a> reinstating \u003cem>Roe’s\u003c/em> protections into law if Congress passes it. Harris could also use her authority to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/31/g-s1-31186/up-first-newsletter-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theories-kamala-harris-donald-trump-abortion-policies\">strengthen privacy laws\u003c/a>, which could protect people with uteruses from being prosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said there are opportunities with this election to amend the inequities that have faced some Americans. For example, she said \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em> was “imperfect” — noting that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/the-hyde-amendment-and-coverage-for-abortion-services-under-medicaid-in-the-post-roe-era/#:~:text=Starting%20in%201977%2C%20the%20Hyde,result%20from%20rape%20or%20incest.\">due to federal law\u003c/a>, many people on Medicaid could not have the costs of their abortion covered. (California’s version of the program, Medi-Cal, \u003ca href=\"https://mcweb.apps.prd.cammis.medi-cal.ca.gov/assets/26092CC9-AAAF-432E-A672-85D649215F8A/abort.pdf?access_token=6UyVkRRfByXTZEWIh8j8QaYylPyP5ULO\">does cover abortion\u003c/a>, however.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Access to abortion needs to be a protected right no matter where you are,” she said. “Insurance needs to be able to cover it, no matter what type of insurance you have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she is anxious for Election Day, she said she is also “guardedly hopeful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the opportunity to move beyond \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em> and find something that’s better,” she said. “That really honors reproductive freedom, reproductive autonomy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that’s where I find my hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area election offices are fully staffed in advance of Election Day, elections registrars from nearly all of the region’s nine counties told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This election, we had just an overwhelming amount of applications,” said Clint Wolfrom, manager of the poll worker division at the San Francisco Department of Elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several counties — including Contra Costa, Sonoma and San Francisco — report receiving a surplus of applicants from people wanting to be poll workers. County elections offices recruit these temporary workers and volunteers to pull off essential election-related tasks, like picking up ballots from drop boxes, scanning ballots and verifying signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election employees help voters at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Wolfrom, this year, San Francisco County saw the most applications to be poll workers since at least the 2016 general election — over 6,000 applications to fill nearly 3,000 positions. Wolfrom added that much like voter turnout, interest in working the polls typically spikes for presidential elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa and Solano county officials told KQED that they are training around 1,000 workers each to staff polling places in the days before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties with fewer registered voters, like Napa and Marin, have fewer election workers — approximately 70 and 175 poll workers recruited for the November election, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out multiple times to Alameda County’s Registrar of Voters about their poll worker hiring efforts this election but did not receive a response.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nIn San Mateo County, the work of training its more than 500 temporary election workers falls to people like Kevin Ashley. On a recent Wednesday afternoon, he led a poll worker training in the basement of the county’s elections headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my twelfth election, my seventh as a trainer,” Ashley said, pointing to the pins he wears on his nametag, commemorating each election he has worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011338\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election trainer Kevin Ashley wears pins he received from working prior elections at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Regardless of folks’ prior experience, the class is mandatory because the processes and rules around voting often change between elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pay for this job in San Mateo County is $22 an hour, and in order to qualify, workers need to complete an online class and pass a background check and a skills test. In total, it’s about 11 hours of training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley said it’s all in the service of making sure things go smoothly once they start working the vote center floor. At the training itself, workers learn the ins and outs of voting, from how to look up a voter’s registration to how to clear a paper jam out of a printer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We bring them in here, and we let them have hands-on experience, so they go, ‘Oh, is that the button I should press? Oh, is that what a seal looks like?’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011334\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election trainees Ken Einstein (left) and Chihying Wu practice setting up voting machines at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ken Einstein, a 75-year-old semi-retired software design consultant from San Mateo, attended Ashley’s training. Einstein is among those who will be working the polls for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So far, I’m very impressed with how complete and thorough the training has been,” Einstein said. “It’s a lot of work!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the passage of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/voters-choice-act\">Voters Choice Act\u003c/a> in California in 2016, the roles of poll workers have expanded. The law allows counties to opt in to a model where voters can cast a ballot at any vote center within their county instead of at their assigned precinct. These vote centers also provide more services and are open days earlier than precinct polling places. (Of the nine Bay Area counties, only San Francisco, Contra Costa and Solano counties have not opted in.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011336\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011336\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poll worker trains for the upcoming election at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jim Irizarry, the assistant chief elections officer for San Mateo County, said that poll workers have many different duties they perform, but election security is among the top priorities — in light of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011743/a-far-right-california-county-appointed-him-registrar-now-his-election-views-have-changed\">increasingly contentious\u003c/a> climate related to elections in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Election workers are trained to be vigilant for threats on-site that could disrupt voting,” Irizarry said. “These workers are the eyes and ears of the elections department at the field level. Their job is to make sure things are safe and secure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means maintaining a safe, apolitical environment for people to cast their ballot, but it also means ensuring timely pickup of ballots from drop boxes and verifying all voter information with the state’s online database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Einstein said he was motivated to get involved because he was fed up with hearing reports of people spreading misinformation and expressing mistrust about the process. He said he wanted to do what he could to help out locally and make sure the election ran smoothly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many people have said, the system is only as strong as the people who are making it run and maintaining it,” Einstein said. “That meant a lot to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011332\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011332\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election employee Lynn Khor (right) works with Gail Bennett at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since 2018, Lynn Khor, a 60-year-old retired chemical engineer from Belmont, has worked seasonally as a vote center representative. She immigrated to the U.S. from Malaysia decades ago as a student and eventually became a naturalized citizen. She said being someone who had to earn the right to vote in this country gives her a different perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Knowing how involved the voting process is, you will see how serious this country takes democracy,” she said. “You go through so much work in order to preserve that democracy, and that’s why you gotta have the deepest appreciation for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bay Area election offices are fully staffed in advance of Election Day, elections registrars from nearly all of the region’s nine counties told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This election, we had just an overwhelming amount of applications,” said Clint Wolfrom, manager of the poll worker division at the San Francisco Department of Elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several counties — including Contra Costa, Sonoma and San Francisco — report receiving a surplus of applicants from people wanting to be poll workers. County elections offices recruit these temporary workers and volunteers to pull off essential election-related tasks, like picking up ballots from drop boxes, scanning ballots and verifying signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election employees help voters at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Wolfrom, this year, San Francisco County saw the most applications to be poll workers since at least the 2016 general election — over 6,000 applications to fill nearly 3,000 positions. Wolfrom added that much like voter turnout, interest in working the polls typically spikes for presidential elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa and Solano county officials told KQED that they are training around 1,000 workers each to staff polling places in the days before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties with fewer registered voters, like Napa and Marin, have fewer election workers — approximately 70 and 175 poll workers recruited for the November election, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out multiple times to Alameda County’s Registrar of Voters about their poll worker hiring efforts this election but did not receive a response.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nIn San Mateo County, the work of training its more than 500 temporary election workers falls to people like Kevin Ashley. On a recent Wednesday afternoon, he led a poll worker training in the basement of the county’s elections headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my twelfth election, my seventh as a trainer,” Ashley said, pointing to the pins he wears on his nametag, commemorating each election he has worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011338\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election trainer Kevin Ashley wears pins he received from working prior elections at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Regardless of folks’ prior experience, the class is mandatory because the processes and rules around voting often change between elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pay for this job in San Mateo County is $22 an hour, and in order to qualify, workers need to complete an online class and pass a background check and a skills test. In total, it’s about 11 hours of training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley said it’s all in the service of making sure things go smoothly once they start working the vote center floor. At the training itself, workers learn the ins and outs of voting, from how to look up a voter’s registration to how to clear a paper jam out of a printer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We bring them in here, and we let them have hands-on experience, so they go, ‘Oh, is that the button I should press? Oh, is that what a seal looks like?’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011334\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election trainees Ken Einstein (left) and Chihying Wu practice setting up voting machines at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ken Einstein, a 75-year-old semi-retired software design consultant from San Mateo, attended Ashley’s training. Einstein is among those who will be working the polls for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So far, I’m very impressed with how complete and thorough the training has been,” Einstein said. “It’s a lot of work!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the passage of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/voters-choice-act\">Voters Choice Act\u003c/a> in California in 2016, the roles of poll workers have expanded. The law allows counties to opt in to a model where voters can cast a ballot at any vote center within their county instead of at their assigned precinct. These vote centers also provide more services and are open days earlier than precinct polling places. (Of the nine Bay Area counties, only San Francisco, Contra Costa and Solano counties have not opted in.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011336\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011336\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poll worker trains for the upcoming election at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jim Irizarry, the assistant chief elections officer for San Mateo County, said that poll workers have many different duties they perform, but election security is among the top priorities — in light of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011743/a-far-right-california-county-appointed-him-registrar-now-his-election-views-have-changed\">increasingly contentious\u003c/a> climate related to elections in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Election workers are trained to be vigilant for threats on-site that could disrupt voting,” Irizarry said. “These workers are the eyes and ears of the elections department at the field level. Their job is to make sure things are safe and secure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means maintaining a safe, apolitical environment for people to cast their ballot, but it also means ensuring timely pickup of ballots from drop boxes and verifying all voter information with the state’s online database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Einstein said he was motivated to get involved because he was fed up with hearing reports of people spreading misinformation and expressing mistrust about the process. He said he wanted to do what he could to help out locally and make sure the election ran smoothly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many people have said, the system is only as strong as the people who are making it run and maintaining it,” Einstein said. “That meant a lot to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011332\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011332\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election employee Lynn Khor (right) works with Gail Bennett at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since 2018, Lynn Khor, a 60-year-old retired chemical engineer from Belmont, has worked seasonally as a vote center representative. She immigrated to the U.S. from Malaysia decades ago as a student and eventually became a naturalized citizen. She said being someone who had to earn the right to vote in this country gives her a different perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Knowing how involved the voting process is, you will see how serious this country takes democracy,” she said. “You go through so much work in order to preserve that democracy, and that’s why you gotta have the deepest appreciation for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the months preceding this week’s election, some California history and social studies teachers have proceeded cautiously in covering the presidential campaign, while others have embraced the opportunity confidently and comprehensively. But most included instruction about the presidential election in their courses, according to responses to an EdSource survey of California history and social science teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their responses underscore that most teachers understood the potential pitfalls of teaching politics in polarized times, compounded by a contagion of misinformation on social media. \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/EdSource-Election-Survey-October-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/EdSource-Election-Survey-October-2024.pdf\">(Go here to read the questionnaire.)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of kids are turned off about government and politics. We in the classroom are giving them a sense of access and empowerment,” said Rachel Reinhard, who teaches 12th grade U.S. History and Government at Oakland High School. “We’re showing that elections are ways that individuals can exert power on the system and make sense of an incredibly fast-paced and changing world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet some teachers have struggled to explain how Republican Donald Trump’s rhetoric, threats of retribution, and vows to expel undocumented immigrants have added anxiety to an unprecedentedly tense and divisive election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dilemma for any responsible teacher right now is to explain the stakes while being nonpartisan,” said Mike Fishback, who teaches seventh- and eighth-grade social studies at Almaden Country Day School, a private school in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.ccss.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Council for the Social Studies\u003c/a> agreed to send EdSource’s survey to its 2,000-member email list, which includes more than 500 active members, most of them teachers. Of those, 64 teachers — about 1 in 8 member teachers — returned the survey by the Oct. 16 deadline. EdSource did not require teachers to submit their names or their schools, although 16 teachers did identify themselves, and many said they were willing to be contacted for an EdSource article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the top-line results of the survey:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>More than three-quarters of teachers who answered the survey said they are teaching about the election and the presidential campaign, and most of those who aren’t said it was their choice, not a district mandate.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asked if they planned to discuss the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, 37% said no, 29% said yes, and 34% said maybe.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asked if they planned to discuss potential election interference, 39% said no, 23% said yes, and 38% said maybe.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asked to express their level of concern about student incivility in dealing with the election, 44% said they were slightly or not at all concerned; 23% said they were somewhat concerned; and 15% said they were moderately, very or greatly concerned. An additional 19% said they were neutral on the issue.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/5pDLx/1/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"350\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/2bhJN/2/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Inoculating for incivility\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Creating a classroom culture of respect is critical to promoting openness and avoiding disrespect amid disagreements, Barrett Vitol, a U.S. History and Government teacher at Aptos High in Pajaro Valley Unified, told EdSource. He characterized the district as politically and economically diverse with “extreme wealth and hard poverty,” where some students in farmworker families “are genuinely worried” about the outcome of the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we come together in August, we spend a lot of time helping to build community,” said Vitol, who said he shares with students his own experience as a volunteer for the 2000 Democratic presidential campaign for then Vice President Al Gore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to role model someone who will be politically active without disrespecting other people,” he said, adding that he also relies on humor to defuse tensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Kelly, a U.S. History and Government teacher at the 500-student Minarets High and Charter High School in Chawanakee Unified, also set class norms early in the year, with a “social compact that holds the students accountable to being respectful to each other,” he said. The rural school district abuts Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce Aster, who teaches U.S. Government at Carlsbad High School, said that his goal “is to teach civil discourse from day one.” He tells his students, ‘If you demonize your opponent, you will not get their ears.’ That’s a big theme in all my classes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the teachers cited guides and resources they drew on to promote civil dialogue, bridge differences of opinion and lay out frameworks for discussions. Popular sources include\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://braverangels.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Braver Angels\u003c/a>, a volunteer-led national nonprofit, and Boston-based \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.facinghistory.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facing History and Ourselves\u003c/a>, which offers lessons, explainers and activities on teaching the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While sources of misinformation have proliferated on the internet, so have tools to expose them. Teachers pointed to sites like\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://adfontesmedia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> adfontesmedia.com\u003c/a>,\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.allsides.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> AllSides.com\u003c/a> and\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> mediafactcheck.com\u003c/a> that analyze news sources’ reliability and point to alternative sources with different political perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhard refers to encouraging students to seek trustworthy and accurate news sources as building a “muscle memory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am hoping they would create a habit to counter what they are seeing on social media,” said Reinhard, who is in her second year teaching high school in Oakland after serving as director of the UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project; it supports K-12 teachers in planning for history instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing glasses and a navy blue shirt leans over teenage girls looking at a book.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1561\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-800x488.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1020x622.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1536x937.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-2048x1249.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1920x1171.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland High teacher Rachel Reinhard interacts with students during a U.S. Government class last week. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed / EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Karen Clark Yamamoto, who chairs the history department at Western High in the Anaheim Union High School District, said students found the revelations of bias in their favorite sites enlightening. “They realized, ‘I don’t know as much as I thought I did,’” she said. [aside postID=\"mindshift_63681,news_11967044\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help students clarify their own political views, several teachers had students take the\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/quiz/political-typology/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw-JG5BhBZEiwAt7JR67sJVk_oKJyHx_hO26tGTmCNHjZ8DRY8J9FYXI4rbMIif8adXmTVzxoCJNgQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Pew Media Typology Quiz\u003c/a>, whose questions reveal whether students have conservative or liberal philosophies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Classroom priorities and strategies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The EdSource questionnaire asked teachers to describe the focus of their instruction and their plans for covering the election. The consensus was that a teacher should give students the tools to make informed choices about candidates and ballot issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Yates, a teacher at Stellar Charter School in Redding, wrote, “I will teach my students how to investigate each candidate. I want them to look past the rumors and prejudice to see who will really help our country thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly wrote, “We focus on helping the students make sense of the offices, candidates and propositions by understanding which issues matter to them the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, we focus on students informing themselves and using their own ideology to decide what is best,” said Jon Resendez, a U.S. Government and Economics teacher at Portola High in Irvine Unified. He has found that students, unlike some of their parents, are open when forming their political beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s normal for teenagers to be more flexible than adults in their perspective as they learn more,” he said. “They adjust their voting behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Little outside criticism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Slightly more than a third of teachers responded to the question about whether they had experienced any criticism from teaching about the presidential election. The majority — 16 of 23 — said they had not, but five reported being criticized by parents, three by students and two by administrators or other colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All eight teachers EdSource spoke with said they were unconcerned about parental pressure or criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No parents are reaching out to express concern,” said Resendez. “Parents assume we will tackle issues head-on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly, of Chawanakee Unified, uses his students’ work to inform parents about the elections. His students created election guides that they shared at the school’s back-to-school showcase in late October. It included separate objective profiles of Democrat Kamala Harris and Trump, drafted by students chosen because they didn’t support the candidates, Kelly said, along with summaries of local candidates and statewide ballot propositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his back-to-school night, Fishback, of the Almaden County Day School in San Jose, encourages parents of his middle school students to discuss election issues and candidates with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that he tells them, “’I need you. If you have not passed along your political values, now is the time to do it. I want them to come to class knowing what families believe and why. My job is to help the students encounter and engage with different perspectives on a variety of contentious issues.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What the teachers taught and how\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The survey asked teachers to check off a list of topics for presenting the presidential election and to add to it. Of 48 teachers who responded to the question, 37 said they reviewed candidates’ positions on key issues and 35 discussed the Electoral College; 28 asked students to explain issues that are important to them and 23 included fact-checking candidates’ claims and statements. Fifteen said they discussed claims that there would be widespread voter fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One teacher included discussing gerrymandering, and another said classes would focus on differences among political parties but not the candidates themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers reported that they approached the topics with different strategies. Some had students participate in the traditional statewide mock election organized by the California Secretary of State or held their own elections. Some teachers held candidates’ debates, while others intentionally did not, focusing instead on objective analyses of candidates’ positions and the accuracy of media coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not interested in debates,” said Reinhard of Oakland High. “Debates often create false parity. I’m not interested in having students try to win a debate around some information I find problematic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto asks her students in Anaheim to pick five issues they care about and investigate the positions of the parties and the candidates’ websites to determine which party more closely aligns with their views. Inflation, health care and reproductive rights were among the issues. They did the same process with the 10 state initiatives on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrett organized a model Congress for his students at Aptos High. Students wrote their own bills and had to persuade committee chairs and each legislative house to pass them. “Extreme” bills on immigration didn’t make the cut; those that did pass include creating affordable health care, limiting homework, requiring those over 70 to take an extra diving test, taxing billionaires, and granting immigrants who pay taxes for five years a path to citizenship, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students become deeply invested in their bills, but usually they can control themselves, Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aster, of Carlsbad, and Kelly, of Chawanakee Unified, continued what they have done for years: bringing in outside speakers to represent parties and candidates for a debate run by students. “We seek regular folks, not politicians,” said Aster. “It’s always civil, and students see that you can be gracious while speaking strongly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several teachers said they didn’t avoid controversy, including looking at the rhetoric of the campaign: Trump’s racist language and post-election authoritarian threats and Democrats’ calling him a “fascist” and a “clown.” But students looked at the furor through an analytical lens to keep discussions “from going off the rails,” said Fishback. He asked his students, How would you characterize Trump, and what has been the impact of his language on the campaign?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most teachers emphasized they kept their own presidential preferences to themselves. “I work hard to be objective; I want it to be a mystery as to my views, though I don’t want them to think I don’t care,” said Aster. Kelly said he would tell students after the election whom he voted for if they asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much I like to lean into politics, the line I don’t cross is siding with one candidate over another,” said Fishback.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Seeing themselves as voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Aster has been teaching high school for more than three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see part of my job is to be a cheerleader for the American system and to have them look forward to participating in it,” Aster said. “I don’t want them to come away thinking the system is rigged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, when it appeared likely to be Trump vs. Joe Biden, students in Reinhard’s Government class at Oakland High had no interest in the election. “They were deadened by it,” she said. The nomination of Harris, the hometown candidate and a younger woman of color, however, at least sparked interest, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-block_3a9750b17c8b42182e2da4169cf80342\" class=\"block-going-deeper alignfull\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\u003ch2>More findings in the EdSource questionnaire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>The teachers were from all regions of the state, with 27% from Southern California, 17% from the Central Valley and Central Coast and 17% from the San Francisco Bay Areas, 14% from the Sacramento area, 10% from Northern California, 9% from the San Diego area and 3% from the Inland Empire of San Bernardino and Riverside counties.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Of the teachers who said they aren’t teaching about the presidential election, only three – two who teach in a largely Democratic district and one from a largely Republican district – said it was their school’s and/or district’s policy not to discuss the subject. Another teacher is discussing the election but not the candidates.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Offered multiple choices to explain their reasons for not teaching the election to their students, the majority said there is too much other course material to get through, especially AP courses in U.S. History and Economics and one semester in Government. However, one-third of the 24 respondents to this question said they were concerned about complaints from parents, and five teachers said they had reservations that students would discuss the election respectfully. Five teachers said they were unsure how to address the subject.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Teachers were evenly split on how much time to spend on the election, with 39% of 49 respondents spending more than one week on it and 39% spending between two days and a week. Several said they spread discussion of the election out over time, based on topics in the courses they were teaching, and another teacher said five to 10 minutes per day.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Most of the respondents were high school teachers who teach multiple subjects; 43% introduced the election in a 12th grade Government course, while 42% taught it in 11th grade American History; 27% taught it in 9th grade Ethnic Studies and 25% introduced it in 10th grade World History. A quarter of respondents were middle school social studies teachers. Individual teachers taught it in AP Psychology, ninth grade Geography, and an English course in persuasive essays.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the months preceding this week’s election, some California history and social studies teachers have proceeded cautiously in covering the presidential campaign, while others have embraced the opportunity confidently and comprehensively. But most included instruction about the presidential election in their courses, according to responses to an EdSource survey of California history and social science teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their responses underscore that most teachers understood the potential pitfalls of teaching politics in polarized times, compounded by a contagion of misinformation on social media. \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/EdSource-Election-Survey-October-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/EdSource-Election-Survey-October-2024.pdf\">(Go here to read the questionnaire.)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of kids are turned off about government and politics. We in the classroom are giving them a sense of access and empowerment,” said Rachel Reinhard, who teaches 12th grade U.S. History and Government at Oakland High School. “We’re showing that elections are ways that individuals can exert power on the system and make sense of an incredibly fast-paced and changing world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet some teachers have struggled to explain how Republican Donald Trump’s rhetoric, threats of retribution, and vows to expel undocumented immigrants have added anxiety to an unprecedentedly tense and divisive election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dilemma for any responsible teacher right now is to explain the stakes while being nonpartisan,” said Mike Fishback, who teaches seventh- and eighth-grade social studies at Almaden Country Day School, a private school in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.ccss.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Council for the Social Studies\u003c/a> agreed to send EdSource’s survey to its 2,000-member email list, which includes more than 500 active members, most of them teachers. Of those, 64 teachers — about 1 in 8 member teachers — returned the survey by the Oct. 16 deadline. EdSource did not require teachers to submit their names or their schools, although 16 teachers did identify themselves, and many said they were willing to be contacted for an EdSource article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the top-line results of the survey:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>More than three-quarters of teachers who answered the survey said they are teaching about the election and the presidential campaign, and most of those who aren’t said it was their choice, not a district mandate.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asked if they planned to discuss the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, 37% said no, 29% said yes, and 34% said maybe.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asked if they planned to discuss potential election interference, 39% said no, 23% said yes, and 38% said maybe.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asked to express their level of concern about student incivility in dealing with the election, 44% said they were slightly or not at all concerned; 23% said they were somewhat concerned; and 15% said they were moderately, very or greatly concerned. An additional 19% said they were neutral on the issue.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/5pDLx/1/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"350\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/2bhJN/2/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Inoculating for incivility\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Creating a classroom culture of respect is critical to promoting openness and avoiding disrespect amid disagreements, Barrett Vitol, a U.S. History and Government teacher at Aptos High in Pajaro Valley Unified, told EdSource. He characterized the district as politically and economically diverse with “extreme wealth and hard poverty,” where some students in farmworker families “are genuinely worried” about the outcome of the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we come together in August, we spend a lot of time helping to build community,” said Vitol, who said he shares with students his own experience as a volunteer for the 2000 Democratic presidential campaign for then Vice President Al Gore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to role model someone who will be politically active without disrespecting other people,” he said, adding that he also relies on humor to defuse tensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Kelly, a U.S. History and Government teacher at the 500-student Minarets High and Charter High School in Chawanakee Unified, also set class norms early in the year, with a “social compact that holds the students accountable to being respectful to each other,” he said. The rural school district abuts Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce Aster, who teaches U.S. Government at Carlsbad High School, said that his goal “is to teach civil discourse from day one.” He tells his students, ‘If you demonize your opponent, you will not get their ears.’ That’s a big theme in all my classes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the teachers cited guides and resources they drew on to promote civil dialogue, bridge differences of opinion and lay out frameworks for discussions. Popular sources include\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://braverangels.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Braver Angels\u003c/a>, a volunteer-led national nonprofit, and Boston-based \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.facinghistory.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facing History and Ourselves\u003c/a>, which offers lessons, explainers and activities on teaching the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While sources of misinformation have proliferated on the internet, so have tools to expose them. Teachers pointed to sites like\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://adfontesmedia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> adfontesmedia.com\u003c/a>,\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.allsides.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> AllSides.com\u003c/a> and\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> mediafactcheck.com\u003c/a> that analyze news sources’ reliability and point to alternative sources with different political perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhard refers to encouraging students to seek trustworthy and accurate news sources as building a “muscle memory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am hoping they would create a habit to counter what they are seeing on social media,” said Reinhard, who is in her second year teaching high school in Oakland after serving as director of the UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project; it supports K-12 teachers in planning for history instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing glasses and a navy blue shirt leans over teenage girls looking at a book.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1561\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-800x488.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1020x622.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1536x937.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-2048x1249.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1920x1171.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland High teacher Rachel Reinhard interacts with students during a U.S. Government class last week. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed / EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Karen Clark Yamamoto, who chairs the history department at Western High in the Anaheim Union High School District, said students found the revelations of bias in their favorite sites enlightening. “They realized, ‘I don’t know as much as I thought I did,’” she said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help students clarify their own political views, several teachers had students take the\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/quiz/political-typology/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw-JG5BhBZEiwAt7JR67sJVk_oKJyHx_hO26tGTmCNHjZ8DRY8J9FYXI4rbMIif8adXmTVzxoCJNgQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Pew Media Typology Quiz\u003c/a>, whose questions reveal whether students have conservative or liberal philosophies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Classroom priorities and strategies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The EdSource questionnaire asked teachers to describe the focus of their instruction and their plans for covering the election. The consensus was that a teacher should give students the tools to make informed choices about candidates and ballot issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Yates, a teacher at Stellar Charter School in Redding, wrote, “I will teach my students how to investigate each candidate. I want them to look past the rumors and prejudice to see who will really help our country thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly wrote, “We focus on helping the students make sense of the offices, candidates and propositions by understanding which issues matter to them the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, we focus on students informing themselves and using their own ideology to decide what is best,” said Jon Resendez, a U.S. Government and Economics teacher at Portola High in Irvine Unified. He has found that students, unlike some of their parents, are open when forming their political beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s normal for teenagers to be more flexible than adults in their perspective as they learn more,” he said. “They adjust their voting behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Little outside criticism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Slightly more than a third of teachers responded to the question about whether they had experienced any criticism from teaching about the presidential election. The majority — 16 of 23 — said they had not, but five reported being criticized by parents, three by students and two by administrators or other colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All eight teachers EdSource spoke with said they were unconcerned about parental pressure or criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No parents are reaching out to express concern,” said Resendez. “Parents assume we will tackle issues head-on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly, of Chawanakee Unified, uses his students’ work to inform parents about the elections. His students created election guides that they shared at the school’s back-to-school showcase in late October. It included separate objective profiles of Democrat Kamala Harris and Trump, drafted by students chosen because they didn’t support the candidates, Kelly said, along with summaries of local candidates and statewide ballot propositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his back-to-school night, Fishback, of the Almaden County Day School in San Jose, encourages parents of his middle school students to discuss election issues and candidates with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that he tells them, “’I need you. If you have not passed along your political values, now is the time to do it. I want them to come to class knowing what families believe and why. My job is to help the students encounter and engage with different perspectives on a variety of contentious issues.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What the teachers taught and how\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The survey asked teachers to check off a list of topics for presenting the presidential election and to add to it. Of 48 teachers who responded to the question, 37 said they reviewed candidates’ positions on key issues and 35 discussed the Electoral College; 28 asked students to explain issues that are important to them and 23 included fact-checking candidates’ claims and statements. Fifteen said they discussed claims that there would be widespread voter fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One teacher included discussing gerrymandering, and another said classes would focus on differences among political parties but not the candidates themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers reported that they approached the topics with different strategies. Some had students participate in the traditional statewide mock election organized by the California Secretary of State or held their own elections. Some teachers held candidates’ debates, while others intentionally did not, focusing instead on objective analyses of candidates’ positions and the accuracy of media coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not interested in debates,” said Reinhard of Oakland High. “Debates often create false parity. I’m not interested in having students try to win a debate around some information I find problematic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto asks her students in Anaheim to pick five issues they care about and investigate the positions of the parties and the candidates’ websites to determine which party more closely aligns with their views. Inflation, health care and reproductive rights were among the issues. They did the same process with the 10 state initiatives on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrett organized a model Congress for his students at Aptos High. Students wrote their own bills and had to persuade committee chairs and each legislative house to pass them. “Extreme” bills on immigration didn’t make the cut; those that did pass include creating affordable health care, limiting homework, requiring those over 70 to take an extra diving test, taxing billionaires, and granting immigrants who pay taxes for five years a path to citizenship, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students become deeply invested in their bills, but usually they can control themselves, Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aster, of Carlsbad, and Kelly, of Chawanakee Unified, continued what they have done for years: bringing in outside speakers to represent parties and candidates for a debate run by students. “We seek regular folks, not politicians,” said Aster. “It’s always civil, and students see that you can be gracious while speaking strongly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several teachers said they didn’t avoid controversy, including looking at the rhetoric of the campaign: Trump’s racist language and post-election authoritarian threats and Democrats’ calling him a “fascist” and a “clown.” But students looked at the furor through an analytical lens to keep discussions “from going off the rails,” said Fishback. He asked his students, How would you characterize Trump, and what has been the impact of his language on the campaign?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most teachers emphasized they kept their own presidential preferences to themselves. “I work hard to be objective; I want it to be a mystery as to my views, though I don’t want them to think I don’t care,” said Aster. Kelly said he would tell students after the election whom he voted for if they asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much I like to lean into politics, the line I don’t cross is siding with one candidate over another,” said Fishback.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Seeing themselves as voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Aster has been teaching high school for more than three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see part of my job is to be a cheerleader for the American system and to have them look forward to participating in it,” Aster said. “I don’t want them to come away thinking the system is rigged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than 300,000 hens live on Weber Family Farms in Petaluma. Some are certified organic, meaning they eat organic food and roam cage-free through an old, wooden hen house, clucking in the fresh air. The rest are conventional hens and inhabit a dimly lit warehouse where they lay eggs once a day, which ultimately end up in supermarkets around the Bay Area and in southern California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The farm has been in the Weber family for four generations. Mike Weber is the current co-owner, and while his farm is humane-certified — meaning a third-party animal welfare expert has visited and given their stamp of approval — he’s facing closure \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sonoma/measures#measure-j\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">if Sonoma County voters approve Measure J\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is designed to put agricultural interests like ours out of business,” Weber said about the measure, which asks voters to ban certain large farms in the county in this November election.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011472\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011472 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-33-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-33-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-33-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-33-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-33-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-33-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-33-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Weber, farmer and co-owner of Weber Family Farms, poses for a photo at the farm in Petaluma on Oct. 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Measure J borrows the federal definition of a large concentrated animal feeding operation or CAFO. Under the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www3.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/cafo_permitmanual_chapter2.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">defines a large CAFO (PDF) \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by the number of animals it has — 700 or more cows, 82,000 or more laying hens, for example. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s not based on how well you manage your flocks, how well you take care of your animals and the level of animal welfare you have,” Weber said. “It’s all about a number. And if you exceed that number, you’re punished, and you’re shut down.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.endfactoryfarming.vote/cafos\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proponents of Measure J have identified 21 large CAFOs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Sonoma County — including Weber’s — that fall under this CAFO definition and would be forced to downsize or shut down altogether if it passes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is a pretty drastic measure,” said Silvia Secchi, a professor who studies agriculture at the University of Iowa. “I think it’s really interesting because, finally, there are some stakes attached to this definition that have not been there before.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Secchi, this is the first attempt ever in the U.S. to ban large CAFOs outright. Other states, including North Carolina, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/water-resources/water-quality-permitting/animal-feeding-operations/program-summary\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have passed moratoria\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but this is the first time they would be eliminated altogether, and existing ones would have to shut down or be forced to move.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proponents of Measure J argue these kinds of large farms are inherently cruel to the animals. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mary Bull, a fruit and vegetable farmer in Sebastopol, plans to vote “yes” on J. She said she has seen photos of farms like Weber’s and doesn’t think they should exist in Sonoma County.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s just too crowded,” she said. “It’s just devastating, horrendous cruelty to the animals.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011471\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011471 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers package eggs in cartons at Weber Family Farms in Petaluma on Oct. 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.endfactoryfarming.vote/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coalition to End Factory Farming\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a group of animal rights and environmental organizations, put forward the measure. Another big sponsor is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/campaigns/end-factory-farming-in-sonoma-county\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Direct Action Everywhere\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a Berkeley-based animal rights activist group known for its open rescue demonstrations. Last year, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/animal-activist-sentenced-in-conspiracy-case-involving-petaluma-poultry-far/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the organization’s cofounder was jailed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for breaking into Petaluma poultry farms — including Weber’s — as part of an animal welfare demonstration. \u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sonoma,Sonoma County: Your Voter Guide to Navigate the Candidates and Issues on Your Ballot' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Voter-Guide-Local-Elections-Sonoma-County-1200x1200-1.png]\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All the large poultry and dairy farms in Sonoma County are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/03/22/organic-101-what-usda-organic-label-means\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">certified organic\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — which addresses both the manner in which foods are grown and animals are raised.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As for the environmental concerns, CAFOs \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/resources/cafos-what-we-dont-know-hurting-us\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">are a major source\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of air and water pollution nationally. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.endfactoryfarming.vote/why-measure-j\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supporters of Measure J say\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> outlawing them in Sonoma County would benefit local waterways.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They’re one of the most egregious trashers of the planet, and they’ve got to go,” Bull said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, according to the local water quality control board, animal agriculture does not pose an outsized threat to waterways in Sonoma County when compared to other land uses, including commercial vineyards and residential areas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s because of “very low herd densities on grazing lands, the predominance of pasture-based, organic dairies (which sharply contrasts with operations located in the Central Valley), and the ongoing implementation of the Regional Water Boards’ regulatory permitting programs for animal-based ag operations,” a spokesperson for the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/northcoast/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> wrote in an email to KQED. “These programs are designed to ensure that such operations do not cause or contribute to water quality impairments, and rates of compliance are relatively high.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011473\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12011473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘No on J’ sign is posted along Stony Point Road in Petaluma on Oct. 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Measure J’s opponents include the county board of supervisors, various city councils and both the Democratic and Republican parties of Sonoma County. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whether it passes or not, Secchi said the measure could still have ripple effects outside of Sonoma County and even outside California. She points to other pieces of legislation that have passed via ballot measure in the state, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/AHFSS/AnimalCare/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">like Proposition 12\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which prohibits producing and selling meat in California from animals that were raised in “extreme confinement.” The measure faced intense backlash from the pork industry and even \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-468_5if6.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">went before the U.S. Supreme Court (PDF)\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If a ban on large CAFOs went into effect across California, it could just displace livestock operations to places like Secchi’s home state of Iowa that have looser regulations for animal welfare, environmental pollution and even child labor laws. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People need to also understand that depending on how you do things in California, you do have these indirect effects out of state and need to be mindful of that,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, she added, it’s important to keep scrutinizing the livestock industry. Most meat eaters in the U.S. don’t think hard enough about where their food comes from, she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I do think that all this attention is a signal that people are thinking about these issues,” Secchi said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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