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San Bernardino County opens board meetings to phone comment July 1
San Bernardino County: Residents get to weigh in on county business by phone for the first time — no drive to the Arrowhead Avenue chambers required.
Riverside County opens 131 more vote centers Saturday for the June 2 primary
County of Riverside: Twenty-one centers are already open; 131 more — including five high-capacity Super Vote Centers, one per supervisorial district — come online Saturday, for 152 total ahead of the June 2 vote.
Coachella weighs a data center moratorium after backlash over a 400-acre campus
NBC Palm Springs: Hundreds packed chambers to fight a six-building AI campus; the council may vote next week and could scrap the utility deal it signed with Stronghold in February.
Newsom signs ballot-seizure ban after Bianco took 600,000 Riverside ballots
CalMatters: SB 73 takes effect immediately and makes it a crime for police to take cast ballots from a county registrar — the exact thing Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco did earlier this year. Lawmakers rushed the bill through ahead of the June 2 primary.
Perris voters decide a 1% sales tax increase June 2
The Riverside Record: Measure B would raise Perris's sales tax from 7.75% to 8.75% and bring in an estimated $18 million annually. The council voted 4-1 to send it to voters, citing rising public safety, infrastructure, and insurance costs.
Riverside County opens early voting sites Saturday for June 2 primary
Coachella accepting council applications through Tuesday
The Riverside Record: Applications close 5 p.m. May 26. Council has until June 22 to either appoint a replacement or leave the seat open through November.
21 Riverside County vote centers open Saturday for June 2 primary
The Riverside Record: Another 131 vote centers, including five super centers, open May 30. As of Friday, about 132,000 of roughly 1.46 million mail-in ballots had been returned and verified.
Riverside ballots mailed after May 26 may not be postmarked on time
Raincross Gazette: USPS applies postmarks at processing facilities, not collection boxes, so a ballot dropped Election Day may not be postmarked until June 3. Drop boxes don't require postmarks; mail-in voters should send theirs by May 26.