[Sabertooth]

Their ads also cite Bustamente as a supporter of 53, that was all I needed to vote NO

At the big recall debate in Sacramento, both Schwarzenegger and McClintock also were in favor of #53. An interesting stat that came out during the debate... under Pat Brown and Ronald Reagan, infrastructure spending was at 20% of budget. Now it's 1% or less. #53 puts it at 3%.

Infrastructure is one of the legitimate functions of state government, but the politicians play games by starving the legitimate functions in favor of social services. Why do you think we're always voting on bonds for police, fire, schools, and roads?

Because bonds for social handouts would always fail.

[William McKinley]

Should have stayed with my first impression then, that #53 sounded ok. Good thing I didn't vote against it :-)

[concerned about politics]

DUmmies.com -- Californians- Voter problems - DONT LET IT SLIDE. Get it on record

It is important to make public any and all problems, confusion, and/or irregularities to get them on (public)record.

Who to call: your local Democratic office, call the Secretary of States office in Sacramento, your state representative, and CALL YOUR LOCAL PAPER.

Or call the radio station, most importantly, just get it out there and spread the word.

If anyone else knows where people should call, like non-profits that are working with the public on voter concerns, let us know.

The more problems they receive, the more we can gage a scope of what is happening around the state and ultimately what we can do about it.

Looks like they're setting the Facist litigators stage.

[Scothia]

Hardly anyone was at the polling place at 10:30 AM when my husband and I got there, but it's the third time in as many elections that the location has been changed and there was a sparsity of the usual signs indicating an election was being held anywhere around, not to mention the total lack of convenient parking...hmmm...

Then I got inside, and by some clerical error I had been eliminated from the registration. I had to vote provisionally, which ticked me off exceedingly, because I haven't moved in years and have voted many times from this address. Still managed to vote to boot Mr. Roberts' Evil Twin out and Arnie in.

McC is a good man, and I hope he either gets a high position in The Governator's administration or else runs against Feinstein or Boxer. I'd work for his campaign under those circumstances.