Elections

League of Women Voters^®
of the Central Orange County Area

Information about voter registration and voting, your ballot for the next election and archives of candidate statements in past elections.

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Voter Information

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Measures on November 2010 Ballot

Your ballot in November will include the following measures:
Prop 18-approve an $11.14 billion bond for safe drinking water and water supply reliability pro-grams
Prop 19-legalize Marijuana and allow it to be regulated and taxed
Prop 20-remove elected officials from the process of establishing congressional districts and trans-fer that responsibility to the newly authorized 14-member redistricting commission
Prop 21-establishes an $18 annual state vehicle license surcharge and grants free admission to all state parks to surcharged vehicles
Prop 22-prohibits State from shifting, taking, borrowing, or restricting the use of tax revenues dedicated by law to local government services
Prop 23-suspends State laws requiring reduced greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming until the unemployment rate drops to 5.5% or less for four consecutive quarters
Prop 24-repeals recent legislation that would allow businesses to shift operating losses to prior tax years and would extend the period permitted to shift operating losses to future tax years
Prop 25-change the legislative vote requirement necessary to pass the state budget from two-thirds to a simple majority
Prop 26-Increases legislative vote requirement to two-thirds for state levies and charges, with limited exceptions, and for certain taxes current subject to majority vote
Prop 27-eliminates 14-member redistricting commission selected from applicant pool picked by government auditors. Consolidates authority for establishing state Assembly, Senate, and Board of Equalization district boundaries with elected state representatives responsible for drawing congressional districts.

LWVC Positions on Ballot Measures

The League of Women Voters of California has taken stands on five ballot measures appearing on the November 2, 2010 ballot.
Water Bond (Proposition 18): The LWVC OPPOSES the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010 that was placed on the ballot by the legislature and Governor. While the bond contains funding for water management options that the League favors, such as water conservation, recycling and watershed protection, the overall effect of the measure is to encourage continued reliance on structural water supply solutions such as dams and conveyance that take more water from instream flows.
AB 32 Suspension (Proposition 23): The LWVC strongly supported the enactment of AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. The League joins with many others to OPPOSE this initiative to suspend the implementation of AB 32 until the state unemployment rate is 5.5 percent or lower for four consecutive calendar quarters.
Tax Fairness Act (Proposition 24): Proposition 24 would roll back the corporate tax cuts that were passed in the "Dark of the Night" tax deals of 2008-09, costing approximately $1.7 billion per year in revenue to the state. The League SUPPORTS this measure, believing that the budget crisis cannot be solved by expenditure cuts alone, let alone expenditure cuts combined with tax cuts.
Simple Majority Vote for Budget (Proposition 25): The LWVC SUPPORTS this measure, which would change the vote required to pass a budget in the state legislature from the current two-thirds to a simple majority. This will give a majority of the legislature the ability to set the priorities for spending and should change the negotiations over the budget to give the minority less of a stranglehold on the process.
"Polluter Protection" (Proposition 26): This measure would redefine taxes, and therefore require a two-thirds vote on many more government revenue decisions, including what are currently environmental regulatory fees. The League OPPOSES this measure, because we feel that all decisions about revenue measures should be made with simple majority votes.

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