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Contra Costa Elections Division Selected For People’s Choice Award 2026
The Contra Costa County Elections Division has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 People’s Choice Award by members of Election Center for the 2024 ad campaign, Show, Don’t Tell: Building Voter Trust in a Polarized Era. Also known as the National Association for Election Officials, Election Center is the largest national professional association for election officials in the United States.
Newsweek: Opinion
In a Heated Election Year, Voters Can Count on Their Election Officials
Voting is under way in primaries across the country, and more than 100 million voters are expected to cast ballots in the general election this fall. It is important that Americans have confidence in the integrity of their elections and in the ability of election officials to conduct a fair, transparent, and accurate process. As election officials ourselves, we have full confidence we'll achieve that, both in our own jurisdictions and around the country.
The Richmond Standard
Contra Costa County Clerk’s Office to marry 47 couples on Valentine’s Day
The Contra Costa County Clerk’s Office is opening this Saturday, Feb. 14, to host a special Valentine’s Day wedding event.
Although the office is usually closed on weekends, staff members are working the holiday to help local couples tie the knot on the year’s most romantic day. All 47 ceremony appointments are already fully booked due to high demand.
The San Francisco Chronicle
Opinion: To fight misinformation about our election process, know the facts
For most people, calling the FBI is not a part of their job description. Unfortunately, that unorthodox task has become far too common for many election officials. I’ve experienced this firsthand. While overseeing Contra Costa County’s past presidential primary election, I had to report a threat against myself and my staff from someone wanting to see us all “hang.”
Sadly, I expect my office to receive additional threats in the coming weeks.
The LA Times
Trump, California and the multi-front war over the next election
In recent weeks, Marin County Registrar Natalie Adona has been largely focused on the many mundane tasks of local elections administrators in the months before a midterm: finalizing voting locations, ordering supplies, facilitating candidate filings.
But in the wake of unprecedented efforts by the Trump administration to intervene in state-run elections, Adona said she has also been preparing her staff for far less ordinary scenarios — such as federal officials showing up and demanding ballots, as they recently did in Georgia, or immigration agents staging around polling stations on election day, as some in President Trump’s orbit have suggested.