{"id":205142,"date":"2026-03-05T05:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205142\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T05:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:53:07","slug":"longtime-alameda-county-registrar-of-voters-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205142\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Alameda County Registrar of Voters steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to appoint long-time county employee Cynthia Cornejo as interim registrar of voters.<\/p>\n<p>Cornejo will take over on March 29 for Tim Dupuis, who is retiring after nearly 24 years with the county.<\/p>\n<p>Cornejo was hired as a clerk in 1996 and has earned various promotions at the Registrar of Voters Office over the years, eventually becoming deputy registrar in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The county is currently in the process of hiring a permanent replacement for Dupuis, whose tenure wasn&#8217;t without controversy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alamedacountyca.gov\/board\/com_calendar\/documents\/April172025ECAgenda.pdf\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A 2025 report <\/a>from the Alameda County Elections Commission ticked off a list of problems at the Registrar&#8217;s Office under Dupuis\u2019 tenure, including poor language access, lack of public access to observe electoral processes, lack of comprehensive and thorough poll worker training, among other things. <\/p>\n<p>Dupuis didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for comment and neither he nor Cornejo attended Tuesday&#8217;s Board of Supervisors meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to appoint long-time county employee Cynthia Cornejo as interim registrar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-205142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}