1. 100 percent defense against HACKER enemies/felons – domestic and foreign ???

   ie better defense thsn for USA WAR plans and codes ???

2. Where is the CA init pet for —

   PR and/or AppV and/or TOTSOP —

   to get/save Democracy on paper and in fact.

3. How about on line petitions for candidates?

4. Note that it is already possible to download and print petitions off the internet, fill them out, and mail them to the proponent of the petition, and this has been the case for a long time. Few peoole bother to do this.

5. @WZ,

   Petition requirements in California are quite modest except independent presidential candidates.

6. Maybe for candidates of ballot qualified political parties (although it is not easy to become a ballot qualified political party), but not so much for independent candidates, ballot initiatives, referendums, and recalls.

7. There is of course also the awful Top Two Primary law, passed in 2010, which makes it really hard for minor party and independent candidates in CA to make it to general election ballots, with tge exception of presidential candidates, but that is only because they were exempted from the Top Two Primary law.

8. ALL ONE person petition forms – 4.25 x 5.5 inches

   I want such and such [candidate/issue] on the general election day ballots.

   Sig, printed Name, address, date signed.

   Return to [sponsor address]

9. 3 election reform pets

   https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/initiative-and-referendum-status/initiatives-referenda-cleared-circulation/

   1871. (19-0009) 
AUTHORIZES ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE GATHERING FOR INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM, AND RECALL PETITIONS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. 
Summary Date: 10/23/19 | Circulation Deadline: 04/20/20 | Signatures Required: 623,212
Proponent(s): Michael Freeman Liddell
   Requires Secretary of State to develop a system that allows voters to view state and local initiative, referendum, and recall petitions on Secretary of State’s website and to sign them electronically directly on the website, or to download, print, and sign the printed petitions. Requires Secretary of State or local elections official to verify these signatures. Requires Secretary of State to invite arguments for and against petitions, and to post submitted arguments on website. Requires Secretary of State’s website to include ongoing tally of each measure’s signatures received electronically or on downloaded petitions. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local governments: One-time state and local government costs in the millions of dollars or more to develop an online system for electronic petition signature gathering. Potential net costs or savings due to changed state and local government processes for verifying petition signatures. (19-0009.)

   1874. (19-0012) 
REPLACES STATE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY WITH SINGLE-HOUSE LEGISLATURE; INCREASES NUMBER OF LEGISLATORS. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
Summary Date: 10/23/19 | Circulation Deadline: 04/20/20 | Signatures Required: 997,139
Proponent(s): Sharon Durst
   Replaces current State Senate and Assembly of 40 Senators and 80 Assemblymembers with a nonpartisan single-house legislature starting in 2022, initially consisting of 250 legislators. Starting in 2024, the single-house legislature would have one legislator for every 80,000 to 100,000 persons in California. The number of legislators would be updated every ten years to reflect population changes as reported by the national Census. Legislators in the single-house legislature would serve four-year terms, and could serve for no more than twelve years. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local governments: One-time costs of hundreds of millions of dollars to expand the State Capitol in Sacramento, with ongoing increased building maintenance costs of a few million dollars annually. Increased state costs of millions of dollars per year to oversee elections. Increased county costs of up to the low tens of millions of dollars annually to administer elections. Increased state costs of millions of dollars for the Citizen Redistricting Commission each decade. (19-0012.)

   1875. (19-0013) 
REQUIRES RANKED-CHOICE VOTING SYSTEM FOR FEDERAL AND STATE ELECTIONS. RESTRUCTURES STATE SENATE TO MULTI-MEMBER DISTRICTS. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
Summary Date: 10/24/19 | Circulation Deadline: 04/21/20 | Signatures Required: 997,139
Proponent(s): Scott Mathog
   Allows voters to rank all candidates in order of preference in Congressional, State Officer, and Presidential elections. If voter’s highest-ranked candidate is eliminated, then the vote (or a portion of it, in some instances) is transferred to the next continuing candidate, as specified. Repeats rounds of counting, elimination, and reallocation until winners are determined. Changes composition of state Senate from forty single-member districts to eight five-member districts. Changes petition procedures and requires ranked-choice voting for recall elections. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local governments: Increased state elections costs potentially totaling millions of dollars for every two-year election cycle. Increased local elections costs potentially totaling tens of millions of dollars for every two-year election cycle. (19-0013.)

10. @DR,

    1874 (19-0112) is horribly written, even if it is a good idea. It might demonstrate the downside of the electronic petition signing. I doubt the sponsor of 1874 has the resources to circulate a paper petition, but imagine a voter could go online and click on dozens of petitions. It only costs $2000 to file an initiative.

    1875 has some interesting festures. Any candidate who reached 20% in a Top 2+ RCV primary would advance to the general election. In addition it provides multimember senate districts.

11. CA con amdt petition folks should pay lots more attention to BAN.

    — esp YES/NO flow charts for election language.

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