voter turnout

With the March primaries just weeks away, voters will be considering not only their choices on the ballot but will also need to consider how they will cast their votes in South Lake Tahoe and El Dorado County.

With poor voter turnout, especially in South Lake Tahoe, and more registered voters choosing to vote by mail, the polling places set up on election days were not frequently used.

Update - 1:20 a.m. 11/7/18: With a large voter turnout the processing of ballots is taking longer than normal. A power outage caused by a car hitting a power line near Blackwood Avenue caused some excitement for voters but did not delay the count as there are procedures in place for such an incident.

Registered voters at Stateline, the Y and Bijou don't normally vote in elections but those living in Montgomery Estates, the Tahoe Keys, Gardner Mountain and parts of Sierra Tract do, according to a new research project at U.C. Davis.

California voters had rejected every statewide tax measure since 2004 until they approved two of them last week. They also said yes to 70 percent of the local tax and bond measures on last week’s ballot. But this may not be the start of a new trend.
The passage of Propositions 30 and 39 snapped a seven-measure winning streak for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. But President Jon Coupal says that doesn't mean the attitudes of California voters are changing when it comes to taxes.

Early voting for the general election in Nevada begins today. Lake Tahoe voters living in Douglas County can cast their votes at the county's Stateline Kahle Community Center offices at 175 Hwy 50. According to the Douglas County Clerk, early voting at Stateline will continue today to 4 p.m. again on Saturday, Oct. 27 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Tuesday, Oct. 30, from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.