California Prop. 62 Loses in 52 Out of 58 Counties

California’s proposition 62, the “top two” method that put all candidates for congress and state office on the June primary ballot, and only permitted the top two vote-getters to be on the November ballot, only carried 6 counties (Butte, Nevada, Lassen, Kings, Imperial and Modoc). It lost in all the high-population counties, even though it had been endorsed by the Los Angeles Times, the San Jose Mercury News, the Sacramento-Fresno-Modesto Bees, and the San Francisco Chronicle.


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California Prop. 62 Loses in 52 Out of 58 Counties — 1 Comment

  1. The passage of Prop 60 (the converse of Prop 62) has a great side benefit. It removes a severe ballot access restriction for third parties — the same one that denied Terry Baum a spot on the Congressional ballot.

    It guarantees a spot on the general election ballot to every party’s highest vote-getter in the primary. Before, a write-in candidate had to receive at least 1% of the total previous vote to make the general ballot. Prop 60 makes this restriction unconstitutional.

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