Voting is tomorrow if you did not mail in your ballot, and the Midterms Elections are very important for your local government. Propositions directly affect the state of California, and there are a few that have layers and important aspects to both sides that one should be aware of.
What are the props to vote on? That is ultimately a decision you need to make yourself, but here is a chart of summary and links to more information on each of the propositions California will be voting on tomorrow.
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4 billion dollars in bonds for affordable housing programs. |
Makes Daylight Savings Time year round in California, but even if prop 7 passes we still need permission from Washington DC to change our time zone. |
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2 billion dollars in bonds for the homeless who are mentally ill. |
Creates a cap for profit in Dialysis Clinics, which may drive up the cost of Dialysis or could close Dialysis Clinics altogether. |
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Almost 9 billion dollars for water projects |
Rent Control expands rent control in the state. |
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1.5 billion for children’s hospitals. |
911 Operators will be on call during lunch breaks for ambulance companies. |
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Allows seniors to have a wider property tax break without the three current rules about restrictions within their ability to move and keep their current property tax. |
Standards and requirements changes for confining farm animals. This would change the requirement from 8/10 of a square foot per hen, and prop 12 would change it to 1 square foot. |
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Would ban state legislature from raising gas tax without asking voter’s permission. It would pay less for your car, or voting yes would help repair the roads in California. |
For more information on propositons, click this link that will have an audio summary list of all the propositions. |
Basically, props 1-4 are about bonds. It would change and increase our taxes, but it is all for projects to help the state of California. These bonds will be about all the projects added up with accounting for interest will be around 32 billion dollars. Prop 5 is in regards to property tax for seniors and how it might affect your local government if passed. This short video explains prop 5 thoroughly. Prop 6 would ban state legislature from raising gas prices, and it would immediately drop gas prices about 12 cents. However, this would be a loss for your local road repairs, cutting back to 5 billion and up in construction of roads. Daylight savings is basically what prop 7 is about, and prop 8 is about having dialysis clinics have a 15 percent profit cap. Prop 10 creates more affordable housing and rent control, for more information on this topic please view this clip. Regarding state labor laws and 911 operators, prop 11 makes it so 911 operators will be on call during lunch breaks, and there has been little to no opposition for this prop. Prop 12 would change the standard requirement for farm animals, and it would get rid of cages and the standard requirements for cages by 2/10.
Prop 9 did not make the ballot because it was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court over summer.
If you did not mail in your ballot in time for tomorrow’s election, do not despair! In the state of California, you are allowed to “bring your unused vote-by-mail ballot to your local polling place.” You would then find a poll worker who will take your mail in ballot and replace it with a polling place ballot. If you do not have your vote-by-mail ballot with you that’s okay too so don’t worry. Your vote will be a provisional vote until the database can make sure you didn’t mail in your ballot and vote twice.
If you are curious on the process in where your ballot goes, click this link to watch a short bit explaining the voting process.
Comment below on your view of the props, and what you think is the right choice!