{"id":431236,"date":"2026-08-13T00:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431236\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T00:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:38:13","slug":"county-of-fresno-sues-state-and-own-county-of-registrar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431236\/","title":{"rendered":"County of Fresno sues state and own county of registrar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 According to a lawsuit filed by Fresno County, a new state law improperly interferes with the county\u2019s election process and requires a local transportation initiative to appear on the November 3 ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The county is suing the State of California and naming Fresno County Registrar of Voters James Kus in the case.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawsuit, the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/fresno-county-supervisors-move-to-sue-state-over-ab-1923-as-tax-measure-heads-to-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">instead place the measure on the March 2028 ballot<\/a>, while Kus has said he plans to put it on the November ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The county is asking a judge to resolve the dispute before the September 9 ballot-printing deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno v State of CA ComplaintPDF previewPreview PDF<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"PdfEmbed_downloadLink__tZFvP\" href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/resources\/pdf\/ed370fe8-93b1-40cf-9a6d-12024b0ed04d-FresnovStateofCAComplaint.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">View PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 According to a lawsuit filed by Fresno County, a new state law improperly interferes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-431236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431236","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=431236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}