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INDEX TO POSTS: FILING, RACES, & ENDORSEMENTS

• This post: Index and Information (originally from 8/1)
• OJB ENDORSEMENTS!  (Eventually including ballot measures)
• News on the races (to be sorted later) — (Under construction)
• Last Things First: (state & local ballot measures, Supreme Court & State Appellate Judges) — the sorts of things that keep people from mailing in their ballots as early as they could!

• ON FILING STATUS FOR RACES

1. FULL FINAL LIST OF CANDIDATES ON THE BALLOT! [Under construction]
2. City Elections: Anaheim, Santa Ana, Irvine, Huntington Beach 
3. Garden Grove, Orange, Fullerton, Costa Mesa
4. Mission Viejo, Westminster, Newport Beach, Buena Park
5. Lake Forest, Tustin, Yorba Linda, Laguna Niguel
6. San Clemente, La Habra, Fountain Valley, Placentia
7. All other cities below 50,000 population
8. Community College Districts
9. Unified (K-12) School Districts
10. High School District Boards
11. Elementary District Boards
12. Unincorporated Governance Boards
13. Water Boards
14. Sewage, Environmental and Library Boards
15. Dana Point, Laguna Hills, Seal Beach, Los Alamitos, Villa Park [TO COME, I HOPE]
16. WHAT’S LEFT TO FILL BY FRIDAY 8/7
17. WHAT’S LEFT TO FILL BY WEDNESDAY 8/12
18. ANALYSIS: WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?  [TO COME]
19. FOLLOWING THE AEIOU EXTENSION RACES
20. ANAHEIM’S LINEUPS AND CANDIDATES
21. Rancho Santiago Trustee Area 5 Race (after Brett Franklin’s filing)

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION TO ENDORSEMENTS (from 7/1)

We’re now in the midst of the application period to get on the ballot, which began July 13 and in most cases ends at 5:00 on on August 7.  (The exception is for what we call “AEIOU” elections, for “All Eligible Incumbents Opted to Unserve,” which are open until August 12.  We’ll have more on this and other strained election acronyms (“SEAs”) in due time.)  This means that many candidates have already destroyed their chances by having too many of a particular characteristic (ideological, demographic, affiliative, etc.) run for an office against someone who had different characteristics.  Luckily, candidates can still withdraw their candidacies until August 7.  Unluckily, this very rarely happens.

As you may or may not remember, ballot contests in Orange County come in three flavors:

1. Those run by the City
2. Those run by the County
3. Those (including State Supreme Court, State Appellate Judges, the Presidency, and statewide ballot measures) run by the State.

The word “run” up there doesn’t mean actually running the processes of determining eligibility, running the voting process, and counting the ballots.  Those are in all cases done by the county.  (Sending out voter information guides and ballots, though, mostly comes from the California Secretary of State, with, as I recall, one guide from the county.

The cities handle City Council offices and other elected city offices (City Attorney, Treasurer, Clerk).  This literally requires me to look into the websites of each of OC’s 38 cities, many of which make trying to obtain this information as difficult as possible: obtainable by phone or even only in person.  I don’t like driving around the whole damn county even when Covid-19 is not an issue, and this year I am liable to become really unpleasant about it.

The state handles filings for state Supreme Court Justices, state appellate judges, and President.  (The county would handle contested court seats, but this year we have none.)

By far most of what will be on your ballot, though, is run by the county.  The categories this includes — including all elections in unincorporated areas — will be found in the listing of elections below.

THE ELECTION CALENDAR!

First let’s start with the Election Calendar!  This is the condensed version, for the mind-boggling full one, click here.  (That contains many deadlines for voters as well as candidates.)

NON-CITY RACES ON THE BALLOT

We’re doing this  introduction in several parts.  This post will list all of the county-filed races between candidates.  Then we’ll list the names of candidate in RUNOFFS from March’s Top Two primary.  This comes as-is from the county website, except when I’ve added bold italic headers for clarity.

Here are 24 of the 32 Top 2 winners. (The four races left out are the least competitive.)
Top row (L-R) Rep. Gil Cisneros, Young Kim; Rep. Katie Porter, Greg Raths; Rep. Alan Lowenthal,, John Briscoe; Rep. Harley Rouda, Michelle Steel; Middle row: Rep. Mike Levin, Brian Maryott; Sen. Ling-Ling Chang, fmr Sen. Josh Newman; Sen. John Moorlach, Dave Min; Asm. Phillip Chen, Andrew Rodriguez; Bottom row: Amb. Steven Choi, Melissa Fox; Diedre Nguyen, Janet Nguyen; Laurie Davies, Scott Rhinehart; Asm. Cottie Petrie-Norris, Diane Dixon;  (And that was the easy part!)  Read on to find out which pair is in which race.

President of the United States 

(Eligible candidates are determined by the Secretary of State — sorry, Kanye!)

HANDLED BY THE OC REGISTRAR OF VOTERS:

State Supreme Court Justices

State Intermediate Appellate Court Judges

District Judges

State Ballot Measures

Local Ballot Measures

City Council and Other Officials

Recall Elections

LET’S START FILLING IN NAMES!

We can only fill in the complete names of who’s in what contest for winners of the Top-Two primary.

President of the United States 

(Eligible candidates in California determined by the Secretary of State — sorry, Kanye!)

The four Major and Major Third Party candidates are:

• Joe Biden (D)
• Howie Hawkins (G)
• Jo Jorgensen (L)
• Donald Trump (R)

A list of 1152 other candidates who have filed to run may be found on this page at Ballotpedia.com.  (Give them money, by the way.)  The list does include Kanye West and Justin Amash; Gloria La Riva (of Peace and Freedom) and OC’s favorite son Vermin Supreme; and candidates who participated in primaries, from Justin Amash to Marianne Williamson.  Go read it to find other surprises, if you wish.  I’m not.  I don’t know which candidates have qualified for any ballot, let alone California’s.  If you find out, let me know!

The Top Two vote-getters from VOTER NOMINATED contests: 

Representative in Congress 

• 38th District: Linda Sanchez (i) (D) and Michael Tolar (D)
• 39th District: Gil Cisneros (i) (D) and Young Kim (R)
• 45th District: Katie Porter (i) (D) and Greg Raths (R)
• 46th District: Lou Correa (i) (D) and James Waters (R)
• 47th District: Alan Lowenthal (i) D and John Briscoe (R)
• 48th District: Harley Rouda (i) and Michelle Steel (R)
• 49th District: Mike Levin (i) (D) and Brian Maryott (R)

State Senator 

• 29th District: Ling-Ling Chang (i) (R) and Josh Newman (D)
• 37th District: John Moorlach (i) (R) and Dave Min (D)

Member of the Assembly 

• 55th District: Phillip Chen (i) (R) and Andrew Rodriguez (D)
• 65th District: Sharon Quirk-Silva (i) (D) and Cynthia Thacker (R)
• 68th District: Steven Choi (i) (R) and Melissa Fox (D)
• 69th District: Tom Daly (i) (D) and Jon Paul White (R)
• 72nd District: Diedre Nguyen (D) and Janet Nguyen (R)
• 73rd District: Laurie Davies (R) and Scott Rhinehart (D)
• 74th District: Cottie Petrie-Norris (D) and Diane Dixon (R)