• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

OFFICIAL BALLOT NOVEMBER 6, 2012 CONSOLIDATED GENERAL ELECTION SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS: To vote, fill in the oval like this: Vote both sides of the card. To vote for the candidate of your choice, fill in the OVAL next to the candidate's name. Do not vote for more than the number of candidates allowed (i.e. vote for no more than Two). To vote for a qualified write-in candidate, write in the candidate's full name on the Write-In line and fill in the OVAL next to it. To vote on a measure, fill in the OVAL next to the word "Yes" or the word "No". If you tear, deface or wrongly mark this ballot, return it to the Elections Official and get another. PARTY-NOMINATED OFFICES VOTER-NOMINATED AND NONPARTISAN OFFICES The party label accompanying the name of a All voters, regardless of the party preference they disclosed upon registration, or refusal to candidate for party-nominated office on the disclose a party preference, may vote for any candidate for a voter-nominated or nonpartisan general election ballot means that the candidate office. The party preference, if any, designated by a candidate for a voter-nominated office is is the official nominee of the party shown. selected by the candidate and is shown for the information of the voters only. It does not imply that the candidate is nominated or endorsed by the party or that the party approves of the candidate. The party preference, if any, of a candidate for a nonpartisan office does not PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT appear on the ballot. Vote for One UNITED STATES SENATOR SCHOOL GARY JOHNSON Libertarian SAN LUIS OBISPO COMMUNITY For President COLLEGE DISTRICT JAMES P. GRAY UNITED STATES SENATOR For Vice-President Vote for One ROSEANNE BARR Peace and GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER For President Freedom TRUSTEE AREA NO. 2 CINDY SHEEHAN DIANNE FEINSTEIN Vote for One For Vice-President Party Preference: Democratic BARACK OBAMA Democratic United States Senator BARBARA GEORGE For President Retired Educator JOSEPH BIDEN ELIZABETH EMKEN DAVID MARK BALDWIN For Vice-President Party Preference: Republican Business Representative JILL STEIN Green Businesswoman/Nonprofit Executive For President Write-in CHERI HONKALA UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE COAST UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT For Vice-President THOMAS HOEFLING American For President Independent ROBERT ORNELAS UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER For Vice-President 24th District Vote for no more than Three MITT ROMNEY Republican Vote for One For President PAUL RYAN LOIS CAPPS JUDITH A. HILLEN For Vice-President Party Preference: Democratic Mathematics Education Consultant Congresswoman/Nurse CINDY FRATTO Incumbent ABEL MALDONADO JACK METTIER Write-in Party Preference: Republican Retired School Teacher Farmer/Business Owner SUE NASH Teacher/Artist/Guide STATE SENATOR Write-in Write-in STATE SENATOR 17th District Write-in Vote for One CAYUCOS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT LARRY BEAMAN Party Preference: Republican School Board Member GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER Vote for no more than Two BILL MONNING Party Preference: Democratic Assemblymember VICTORIA S. DANDURAND Counselor/Teacher/Parent MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY WHIT DONALDSON Middle School Teacher ALLEN JOHN BUENTIEMPO Facility Supervisor/Parent MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY 35th District Write-in Vote for One Write-in K.H. "KATCHO" ACHADJIAN Party Preference: Republican Small Businessman/Assemblyman GERALD "GERRY" MANATA Party Preference: Democratic City Transportation Employee WHEN FINISHED VOTING ON THIS SIDE, TURN BALLOT OVER TO CONTINUE FRONT Card 27 RptPct 205-10 "CS201.01" FOR PROOF ONLY MEASURES SUBMITTED TO THE PROPOSITION 35 - HUMAN VOTERS TRAFFICKING. PENALTIES. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Increases prison sentences and fines for human STATE trafficking convictions. Requires convicted human PROPOSITION 30 - TEMPORARY TAXES traffickers to register as sex offenders. Requires TO FUND EDUCATION. GUARANTEED registered sex offenders to disclose Internet activities LOCAL PUBLIC SAFETY FUNDING. and identities. Fiscal Impact: Costs of a few million INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL dollars annually to state and local governments for AMENDMENT. addressing human trafficking offenses. Potential Increases taxes on earnings over $250,000 for increased annual fine revenue of a similar amount, seven years and sales taxes by ¼ cent for four dedicated primarily for human trafficking victims. years, to fund schools. Guarantees public safety YES NO realignment funding. Fiscal Impact: Increased state tax revenues through 2018-19, averaging about $6 PROPOSITION 36 - THREE STRIKES billion annually over the next few years. Revenues LAW. REPEAT FELONY OFFENDERS. available for funding state budget. In 2012-13, PENALTIES. INITIATIVE STATUTE. planned spending reductions, primarily to education Revises law to impose life sentence only when new programs, would not occur. felony conviction is serious or violent. May authorize YES NO re-sentencing if third strike conviction was not PROPOSITION 31 - STATE BUDGET. serious or violent. Fiscal Impact: Ongoing state STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT. correctional savings of around $70 million annually, INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL with even greater savings (up to $90 million) over the AMENDMENT AND STATUTE. next couple of decades. These savings could vary Establishes two-year state budget. Sets rules for significantly depending on future state actions. offsetting new expenditures, and Governor budget YES NO cuts in fiscal emergencies. Local governments can alter application of laws governing state-funded PROPOSITION 37 - GENETICALLY programs. Fiscal Impact: Decreased state sales tax ENGINEERED FOODS. LABELING. revenues of $200 million annually, with INITIATIVE STATUTE. corresponding increases of funding to local Requires labeling of food sold to consumers made governments. Other, potentially more significant from plants or animals with genetic material changed changes in state and local budgets, depending on future decisions by public officials. in specified ways. Prohibits marketing such food, or other processed food, as “natural.” Provides YES NO exemptions. Fiscal Impact: Increased annual state PROPOSITION 32 - POLITICAL costs from a few hundred thousand dollars to over CONTRIBUTIONS BY PAYROLL $1 million to regulate the labeling of genetically DEDUCTION. CONTRIBUTIONS TO engineered foods. Additional, but likely not CANDIDATES. INITIATIVE STATUTE. significant, governmental costs to address violations Prohibits unions from using payroll-deducted funds under the measure. for political purposes. Applies same use prohibition YES NO to payroll deductions, if any, by corporations or government contractors. Prohibits union and PROPOSITION 38 - TAX TO FUND corporate contributions to candidates and their EDUCATION AND EARLY CHILDHOOD committees. Prohibits government contractor PROGRAMS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. contributions to elected officers or their committees. Increases taxes on earnings using sliding scale, for Fiscal Impact: Increased costs to state and local twelve years. Revenues go to K-12 schools and government, potentially exceeding $1 million early childhood programs, and for four years to annually, to implement and enforce the measure’s repaying state debt. Fiscal Impact: Increased state requirements. tax revenues for 12 years--roughly $10 billion YES NO annually in initial years, tending to grow over time. Funds used for schools, child care, and preschool, PROPOSITION 33 - AUTO INSURANCE as well as providing savings on state debt payments. COMPANIES. PRICES BASED ON DRIVER’S HISTORY OF INSURANCE YES NO COVERAGE. INITIATIVE STATUTE. PROPOSITION 39 - TAX TREATMENT Changes current law to allow insurance companies to set prices based on whether the driver previously FOR MULTISTATE BUSINESSES. carried auto insurance with any insurance company. CLEAN ENERGY AND ENERGY Allows proportional discount for drivers with some EFFICIENCY FUNDING. INITIATIVE prior coverage. Allows increased cost for drivers STATUTE. without history of continuous coverage. Fiscal Requires multistate businesses to pay income taxes Impact: Probably no significant fiscal effect on state based on percentage of their sales in California. insurance premium tax revenues. Dedicates revenues for five years to clean/efficient YES NO energy projects. Fiscal Impact: Increased state revenues of $1 billion annually, with half of the PROPOSITION 34 - DEATH PENALTY. revenues over the next five years spent on energy INITIATIVE STATUTE. efficiency projects. Of the remaining revenues, a Repeals death penalty and replaces it with life significant portion likely would be spent on schools. imprisonment without possibility of parole. Applies retroactively to existing death sentences. Directs YES NO $100 million to law enforcement agencies for PROPOSITION 40 - REDISTRICTING. investigations of homicide and rape cases. Fiscal STATE SENATE DISTRICTS. Impact: Ongoing state and county criminal justice REFERENDUM. savings of about $130 million annually within a few A “Yes” vote approves, and a “No” vote rejects, new years, which could vary by tens of millions of dollars. State Senate districts drawn by the Citizens One-time state costs of $100 million for local law Redistricting Commission. If rejected, districts will be enforcement grants. adjusted by officials supervised by the California YES NO Supreme Court. Fiscal Impact: Approving the referendum would have no fiscal impact on the state and local governments. Rejecting the referendum would result in a one-time cost of about $1 million to the state and counties.

Load more

  11

Copy Link