California Online Voter Guide

June 2010 Primary Election
19th edition

Election Preview Guide

In Spring 2010 CVF will debut its nonpartisan voter guide for the June Primary election. In the meantime, below is an election preview, providing links to key resources that help the public and candidates track deadlines and activities leading up to the primary.

• Election Calendar

Published by the California Secretary of State, this calendar provides important dates and deadlines campaigns and candidates participating in the 2010 election season, along with state and local election officials must meet under state law.

• 2010 Candidates' Statement of Intention

The Secretary of State's Cal-Access campaign finance disclosure web site lists the names of people who have filed a statement of intention to run in 2010 for a statewide or legislative office. This resource can help the public keep track of who is likely to be a candidate for which state offices.

• Ballot Measure Update

This resource from the Secetary of State's web site provides a summary of measures qualified for the 2010 ballot and initiatives in circulation, along with links to the official text of initiatives from the Attorney General's web site.

Ballot proposition numbers have been assigned and the following five measures have been qualified for the June ballot:

• Proposition 13: Senate Constitutional Amendment 4 of 2008, authored by Senator Roy Ashburn (Property tax: new construction exclusion: seismic retrofitting)

• Proposition 14: Senate Constitutional Amendment 4 of 2009, authored by Senator Abel Maldonado (Elections: open primaries)

• Proposition 15: Assembly Bill 583 of 2008, authored by Senator Loni Hancock (Political Reform Act of 1974: California Fair Elections Act of 2008)

• Proposition 16: Two-thirds vote requirement for local public electricity providers (Initiative constitutional amendment - more info | text)

• Proposition 17: Allows auto insurance companies to base their prices in part on a driver's history of coverage (initiative statute - more info | text)

The Cal-Access campaign disclosure site features a listing of official 2010 ballot measure campaign committees that have been formed to support or oppose propositions on the ballot.

• Qualifications for Running for Office in June 2010

This resource from the Secretary of State's web site provides all the information would-be candidates seeking state or federal office in California need to know in order to get on the ballot.

• Voter Registration and Participation Data

The official Statements of Vote provide historical voter turnout and participation statistics in California; the Reports of Registration provide historical data about California voter registration.

• Political District Maps

CVF's California Maps Series provides PDF images of all California legislative and congressional districts along with maps of all 58 California counties.

 

This page was first published on October 29, 2009 | Last updated on February 1, 2010
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