Sentences with phrase «california state ballot»

Facebook has recently chosen to no longer fund opposition to the California Consumer Privacy Act, which could appear on the California State Ballot as an initiated state statute on November 6, 2018.

This growing interest is reflected in the overwhelming public support — 73.5 percent — at the ballot box last November for the passage of Proposition 58, the California state ballot initiative that creates more opportunities for bilingual education.

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California's proposed privacy law, which will be on the state's November ballot, would guarantee citizens the rights to see what kinds of information large companies are collecting on them, and to prohibit those companies from selling their personal information.

Initiatives to land marijuana legalization on 2016 ballots are well underway in Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Nevada, while a handful of other states could also put legalization to a vote.

The documents state that other co-workers complained they also felt harassed when Coppedge expressed views in favor of California Proposition 8, the ballot initiative in 2010 that defined marriage between and man and woman.

The film premiered in 2008 just before California voters were to vote on Proposition 8, the California ballot proposition stating that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid.

Ballot initiatives in the states of Washington (1991) and California (1992) were both narrowly defeated by a 54 to 46 percent margin.

There is much to be said, for instance, on behalf of Justice Kennedy's complaint that the decision deprives the people of California of the right to govern themselves by referenda, if the losers of a plebiscite can challenge the outcome and, with the collusion of friendly state officials unwilling to defend the people's will, win in court what they can not win at the ballot box.

Arizona, California and Florida have passed similar measures through ballot initiatives, and Maine, Colorado and Oregon have passed related laws in their state legislatures.

In November, California will legalise cannabis in a long overdue state ballot, forty years after possession was first decriminalised.

In paper ballot states, for example California, there seem to be a «standard» way of getting a ballot (from what I was told in comments, you get mailed one when you register to vote).

(in a state like California where a person may have different ballots depending on which sub-elections they are eligible for, e.g. close primaries or local vs. federal)?

Not in California, at least judging from the battle waged over the internet to pass Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in that state: The ProtectMarriage.com coalition used the Web to fuel fundraising, volunteerism, and voter...

Tobin, who ran for California Secretary of State in 2010 — garnering more than 214,000 votes as the Libertarian nominee — had served as Ralph Nader's national ballot access coordinator during the 2008 presidential campaign, a year when the feisty consumer activist, seeking the brass ring for the final time, appeared on the ballot in 45 states and the District of Columbia.

The Reform Party's Roque «Rocky» De La Fuente, whose name will appear on the ballot in twenty states on Tuesday and is waging write - in campaigns in more than a dozen other states, filed an emergency writ of mandamus against California's Secretary of State late yesterday -LSB-...]

The use of petitions is most commonly associated with forms of direct legislation in California (and other US states) and Switzerland, where successful petitions generate a popular ballot on potential legislative and constitutional changes.

A controversial Republican gubernatorial candidate in California could cause the GOP headaches in down - ballot House races in a state crucial to the party's hopes of increasing its House majority.

On May 22, as reported here earlier, a U.S. District Court ruled that California's ballot access law for newly - qualifying parties is probably unconstitutional, and enjoined the state from enforcing the deadline.

Even though the 2012 election is over, the federal lawsuit filed by the Peace & Freedom Party against the California Secretary of State's decision to bar Peta Lindsay from the party's presidential primary ballot is still alive.

McCarthy filed a «Statement of Intention» with the secretary of state to run for Lieutenant Governor of California in 2014, but never filed to appear on the June 3 primary ballot.

California's never - ending race for state controller entered a new phase this week, as election officials are expected to begin recounting ballots in at least two counties.

Bloomberg made a well - publicized contribution of $ 500,000 this year to California's Proposition 29, the ballot measure that would have raised the state's tobacco tax by a dollar a pack.

California became the 12th state to accept late absentee ballots after Election Day.

Three years after California voters passed a ballot measure to raise taxes on corporations and generate clean - energy jobs by funding energy - efficiency projects in schools, barely one - tenth of the promised jobs have been created, and the state has no...

Until now, I've honored their request to abide by a press embargo and not write about Americans Elect until it was ready to go public, though as the group has been openly working to obtain ballot lines in several states since last fall (including Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Nevada, and Rhode Island, its existence hasn't been a complete secret — you just needed to know where to look.

Under California's election code, political parties are entitled to include a list of candidates that have received the official party endorsement in the sample ballot, which is sent to every voter in the state.

On February 28, the presidential campaign for Stephen Durham received a letter from the California Secretary of State, saying that Durham has been placed on the Peace & Freedom Party presidential primary ballot.

California — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R): The four reform propositions placed on the 2005 ballot by Schwarzenegger were all defeated, a sign that Golden State voters may have tired of the Governator's schtick.

The first is that Cuomo has made himself the first major elected New York state official to advocate the $ 15 minimum wage and the plan he supports is comparable to those passed into law in Seattle and Los Angeles and proposed in ballot initiatives in Washington, D.C. and California.

Currently North Carolina requires more signatures to get on the ballot for President than any other state except California.

In Louisiana, Washington state, and California where it has been used, it has very effectively eliminated independent third party candidates from general election ballots.

State Officer Mark Kravis is leading the Reform Party of California in a voter registration drive to boost its membership numbers this election cycle as well, in order to qualify for ballot access in 2016.

The ballot - qualified Peace & Freedom Party of California will hold its state convention, which also functions as a presidential nominating convention this year, on August 4 - 5 at the Vermont Square United Methodist Church, 4410 S. Budlong Ave., Los Angeles.

So far he has talked about foreign policy, social spending, and ballot access, including the possibility of the Justice Party suing the state of California in order to obtain ballot access for 2012.

Also on June 26, the court held in a different 5 - 4 ruling that the proponents of Proposition 8, a 2008 California ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in that state, did not have standing to defend the initiative in federal court.

Proposal 8 was put on the ballot in response to a decision in May by the California Supreme Court, which ordered the state to begin processing marriage licenses for same - sex couples... Advocates of same - sex marriage in New York have found a loyal supporter in Mr. Paterson, who directed all state agencies earlier this year to recognize marriages between homosexual couples that were performed outside the state.»

The debate over the safety and environmental sustainability of GMOs has intensified in the last year in the United States, with California placing a measure to label food products with genetically altered ingredients on its November ballot.

Environmentalists are also starting to focus on Proposition 26, a little - noticed California ballot measure that would reclassify environmental impact fees as taxes and require a two - thirds vote of the state legislature to impose them rather than a simple majority.

Advocates on both sides of California's ballot initiative to curtail bilingual education in public schools went before the state school board this month, several months before the voters will decide the issue.

That state ballot measure was passed by California voters in 2000 and, in...

In the name of boosting academic performance and giving struggling kids a better shot at succeeding in first grade, California appears to be headed down the slippery slope to universal preschool, never mind that state voters rejected such a plan when Rob Reiner got it onto the ballot in 2006.

So I organized an effort to put a measure on the ballot that would shift the state of California away from so - called bilingual education programs towards a simple and effective system of intensive English immersion.

The California Teachers Association (CTA), for example, was the state's largest political spender in the last decade, devoting $ 212 million to ballot measures, campaigns, and lobbying.

A California coalition founded by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, a venture capitalist, and a schools superintendent is gearing up to put a ballot initiative before state voters in the fall that could dramatically expand the number of charter schools in the state.

Designed to encourage students to become active voters once they are old enough to cast a ballot, the MyVote Student Mock Election, headed by Secretary of State Debra Bowen and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, invites high school and middle school students, teachers and principals to participate in the MyVote California Student Mock Election, which this year took place on Tuesday, October 28, 2014, just one week before California's November 4 General Election.

According to a 2010 report by the California Fair Political Practices Commission, 15 organizations spent a combined $ 1 billion on state campaigns and ballot measures from the beginning of 2000 to the end of 2009.

In part because of the Lau ruling, the district has built up a robust offering of language - learning pathways, even as many districts around California either diminished or did away with their bilingual offerings in the wake of a 1998 state ballot measure that put severe restrictions on bilingual education.

This site is very specific to California school and community college construction bonds that are certain to be on ballots all over the state in June and November 2016.

State Still Has a Role in Supporting and Holding Districts Accountable With the passage of Proposition 30 and almost nine out of 10 local ballot measures last November, the voters of California gave our schools an almost unprecedented chance to begin rebuilding after years of budget cuts.

Earlier this month, California Teachers Association president Eric Heins told the union's State Council that ``... we need to gather 900,000 signatures to get our measure on the ballot.