On September 26, California Governor Jerry Brown signed many bills, and vetoed a few bills. But he did not act on three interesting election law bills: (1) SB 202, which says statewide initiatives cannot be placed on primary ballots; (2) SB 205, which makes it illegal for voter registration workers to be paid on a per-registration card basis; (3) SB 397, which makes it possible for people to register to vote on-line.
Your state is a joke and a third party dead zone, Richard. Sorry to say that, but its true.
P.R. and App.V.
and NO vetoes — an EVIL relic of the DARK AGE — the EVIL killer monarchy / oligarchy gangs.
How many of the EVIL gerrymander monarchs in the CA Legislature are sweating bullets about the coming top 2 primary and new gerrymander districts ???
Hopefully ALL of them.
I guess he thinks he is going to need the process one more time to put his tax hikes on the ballot.
#3 The governor can call a statewide special election to consider pending initiatives, and if wanted to he could make it coincident with the primary. So he isn’t limited.
And if the legislature proposes an amendment, they can choose the election date. There is a constitutional amendment that the legislature had proposed for the June Primary, which SB 202 would move to November.
SB 202 would appear to be on rather dicey constitutional territory.
Two initiatives have already qualified for the “general election” next June. The Constitution says that initiatives go on the next “general election” ballot that is 131 days after they qualify.
The effect of SB 202 would be to redefine “general election”. Those who circulated the petitions did so with the intent of qualifying for the June ballot, and it can be presumed that all signers did so with the expectation it would be on the June ballot.
So the switch in the date is an infringement by the legislature on the political rights of the People.
One of the initiatives would change the term limits of legislators. It provides that legislators first elected before the effective date would be governed by the existing term limits. Constitutional amendments are effective the day after the election at which they are approved, unless the measure has an effective date. The initiative does not provide an effective date.
If the initiative is approved in June, it would be effective beginning then, and would apply to legislators elected in November.
If the initiative is approved in November, it would be effective the day after the election, and would not apply to legislators elected the previous day.