A House race in Arizona pits Jay Feely, a former Jets kicker, against Amish Shah, a former sideline doctor for the team. Jets fans in the district say it’s a welcome distraction from all the losing.
Jets fans watching a preseason game at a bar this month in Scottsdale, Ariz., where two former members of the franchise are running against each other for a local House seat.
Two candidates for Town Council in Gila Bend, Ariz., finished with the same number of votes. A century-old state law mandated breaking the tie with a game of chance.
Patricia Riggs, the interim town clerk of Gila Bend, Ariz., declared Jesus Rubalcava the winner of the Town Council seat after a game of high-card draw with the opposing candidate, Athena Guerrero.
After reviewing the agency’s final plan to comply with President Trump’s demands, a federal judge barred the Postal Service from imposing new restrictions on mail-in voting.
In a filing on Thursday, the Postal Service denied that its proposal left any room for it to second-guess states on which voters were eligible to cast a ballot.
Mayor Karen Bass said food vendors discourage restaurant patrons, mentioning them alongside homeless encampments. Her opponent, Nithya Raman, said vendors should be brought into the system.
Representative Hakeem Jeffries and former President Barack Obama will aim to give Democrats a financial boost at a time when money is a concern for the party heading into the midterm elections.
The Supreme Court on Monday issued an emergency order that allows the Trump administration to move forward, for now, with plans to restrict mail-in voting ahead of the midterm elections in November. Opponents say it will bring chaos to the election process only days before ballots in some states are mailed out. Liz Landers discussed more with Steve Vladeck of the Georgetown University Law Center.
Swalwell, a Democrat who was running for California governor, ended his campaign and resigned from Congress in April after he was accused of sexual assault and harassment, which he denies.