Ursula Jones Dickson vows to put crime victims first and to ensure the DA's office is capably managed. She has out-fundraised her two opponents combined and has widespread support from city and county officials, as well as from many of the deputy DAs who work in her office.
They said it would prevent people's votes from being "wasted" after presidential candidates drop out, and encourage coalition-building among contenders - an attention-grabbing pitch in light of the party's divisive primaries in 2016 and 2020.
“It's difficult for us, just in a regular election, being a smaller rural county,” said Juan Pablo Cervantes, the registrar of voters for Humboldt County, which has just over 85,000 registered voters. Usually Cervantes and his staff have at least five months of lead time to find voting sites, hire staff and procure all the machines, pens and ballots for a statewide election.