# Carson City Clerk Dr. Khaleah K. Bradshaw is running uncontested for Carson City Clerk. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person is Carson's elections official. They also keep the city's records, like agendas, minutes, contracts, and campaign disclosure filings. The term is four years. - Jurisdiction: City of Carson - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/carson-city-clerk - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: August 31, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 93 out of 100 (Very strong), across 4 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Dr. Khaleah K. Bradshaw** — Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Only one candidate qualified for this seat. Incumbent City Clerk Dr. Khaleah K. Bradshaw appears unopposed for a second term on the November 3, 2026 ballot — so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome. The city clerk runs Carson's municipal elections. The clerk keeps the city's official public records. Those include agendas, minutes, contracts, and campaign-disclosure filings. The clerk also runs lobbyist registration. The term is four years. With no opponent, the useful question is not who to choose. It is what the office has done. The City Council appointed Bradshaw as City Clerk in December 2021. She won election to the office outright in 2022. Before that she worked in higher-education administration. ## Dr. Khaleah K. Bradshaw Dr. Khaleah K. Bradshaw is the incumbent City Clerk, appointed by the City Council on December 13, 2021 and elected to the office in 2022, now seeking a second term unopposed. Raised in Compton, she moved to Carson at 21 and earned a bachelor's degree in English Literature and a master's degree in African American Literature and Black Political Thought from CSU Dominguez Hills, then a doctorate in Educational Leadership from CSU Long Beach in 2020. Before joining the City Clerk's office she spent over a decade at CSU Dominguez Hills, including as Admissions Supervisor and Director of Government and Community Relations. **Strengths:** More than a decade in higher-education admissions and government-relations work. One term already as Carson's City Clerk. That is direct experience with records and elections duties. **Trade-offs:** Running unopposed means her administration of the office faces no organized counter-argument this cycle. **Keep in mind:** The clerk's job is largely procedural. It means running elections and keeping records straight. So continuity in the seat is most of what an unopposed return means here. ## Sources 1. [City of Carson — REVISED Notice of General Municipal Election, November 3, 2026 (City Clerk, City Treasurer, Council Districts 2 and 4, each a term expiring November 2030; dated Aug. 26, 2026)](https://carsonca.gov/Documents/Department/CityClerk/E-Board/REVISED%20NOTICE%20OF%20GENERAL%20MUNICIPAL%20ELECTION%20NOVEMBER%203%2C%202026.pdf) 2. [City of Carson — "Candidates who have pulled returned or qualified for the ballot" (City Clerk's own running tracker, linked from the City Clerk's page as "November Election"; last updated 2026-08-11 — one day after the standard Aug. 7 filing deadline and inside the same Aug. 10-12 extension window that produced Arleen Bocatija Rojas's District 4 qualification. Lists exactly one qualified filer each for City Clerk (Dr. Khaleah Bradshaw, qualified July 20, 2026) and City Treasurer (Monica Cooper, qualified July 20, 2026); also shows a District 2 filer, Sue Quedado, who pulled papers but never reached 'Date Qualified,' confirming the document distinguishes qualified filers from mere paper-pullers)](https://carsonca.gov/government/elected_officials/Documents/Department/CityClerk/Candidates%20who%20have%20pulled%20returned%20or%20qualified%20for%20the%20ballot_7.20.26.docx) 3. [City of Carson — CampaignDocs eRetrieval (SouthTech/Granicus public campaign-finance disclosure portal)](https://www.southtechhosting.com/CarsonCity/CampaignDocsWebRetrieval/Default.aspx) 4. [City of Carson — City Clerk Dr. Khaleah K. Bradshaw (official biography: raised in Compton; B.A. English Literature and M.A. African American Literature/Black Political Thought, CSU Dominguez Hills; Ed.D., Educational Leadership, CSU Long Beach, 2020; 10-plus years at CSUDH including Admissions Supervisor and Director of Government and Community Relations; appointed City Clerk by the City Council Dec. 13, 2021; won election to the office in 2022)](https://carsonca.gov/government/elected_officials/city_clerk) ## The rest of the ballot Carson City Clerk is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. 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