California November elections

[applez]

November Ballot (voted absentee):

Thanks to the California electoral process, I get 5 pages (two-sided) of options to vote on, and 383 pages of nonpartisan electoral material to review to reach my decision.

Here is how I voted, and generally why:

Comments

Election material

[gioogle]

5 pages to vote on...
383 pages to read to make a decision...

And I thought that voting in Italy was complicated...
:-)

Re: Election material

[applez]

Yeah, and it tends to only get worse. This is all a strong disincentive to vote, so the numbers required to get a direct proposition like these, to change the law, shrinks.

Re: Election material

[gioogle]

But are all 383 pages necessary, or can you skip through them?

(submerging the electorate with needless information is indeed a clever tactic... )

Re: Election material

[applez]

Ultimately that is a personal question of how a voter makes their decision.

For my part, I know I will have a busy 7 November, and prefer the convenience of an absentee ballot^. Moreover, since I then have the ballot in hand, with the materials to spend the time on, I find that having all that non-partisan material, especially the text of the proposed laws and rule changes to read for myself, is a boon

[ext_3059]

Anyone called Van Loon basically gets my vote automatically. Especially for a school board.

-- tom

[applez]

Hey, better than Starchild. ;-)