1:11 a.m. update final results The ballot counting is far from over. The Sacramento County Voter Registration and Elections Department still has to count tens of thousands of vote-by-mail ballots that were turned in to the polls Election Day, said Brad Buyse, Sacramento County’s campaign services manager. And there are thousands of vote-by-mail ballots sent to the county in the last three days that still need to be counted, Buyse said. Still, the elections department posted results late into the night on Wednesday. Here is where the following local measures stand: Measure B: Utilities Rollback The “no” side had 68 percent of the vote, with 93 percent of precincts reporting. Support fo

Check in here for hourly updates from Sacramento Press as we cover the election all over the city. Turnout was light this morning at Park Folsom Retirement Home on Wales Dr., Folsom.  Volunteers were ready to help voters. Photos by David Alvarez Kevin Johnson cast his vote at 11 a.m. at Pat Anderson Education Center at 2751 Wilmington Ave. After he voted, he commented on the World Series. "It was great ... when you're a Sacramento resident and you grow up in this community you root for the A's and the Giants and I can't think of any better prize on November 1st than the Giants clinching it on the road." Johnson added, "When I see people, my first question is, 'Did you vote?' If

 Recently, 3rd District Congressman Dan Lungren sent a mailer to his constituents in which he rails against federal stimulus funding and, unethically, promotes his re-election campaign against challenger Ami Bera in the upcoming November election, a contest on which we reported here last January: Lungren, the career politician who defends the Washington D.C. status quo grid-lock, versus Dr. Bera, a newcomer to politics whose fresh, long-term views represent hoped-for solutions to the 3rd District’s most pressing problems. Why is this recent incident important? Aside from being about one of the major local and regional races on the November ballot, what Lungren is doing with his mailer, “p

On Saturday, over 30 Democrats and friends helped build a house for a Sacramento family. When the team arrived, they found an empty lot, with only a concrete foundation and piles of lumber that would soon become the walls of a home. By the end of the day, the structure of a home had replaced the empty lot. Event organizer, James Schwab said, "We helped to build a house but we also built friendships and relationships that will help us build a better Sacramento in the future." The cold, foggy morning did not dampen the volunteers' spirits. After touring a recently completed nearby home, the team received instructions from site supervisor, Terry Hardin and set to work building a new, LEED ce