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Proposition 52 was a California ballot proposition on the November 5, 2002 ballot. It failed to pass with 2,808,240 (40.6%) votes in favor and 4,108,362 (59.4%) against. It would allow Election Day voter registration, removing the deadline to register to vote, which was 15 days prior to an election.
The state legislature put five propositions on the general election ballot, while five others were put on via petition. [20] Proposition 2, a bond measure placed on the ballot by the state legislature that would issue $10 billion in bonds to fund construction and upgrades to public schools and colleges. [20] [21]
In 2012, state lawmakers passed a bill to adopt Election Day voter registration with the law taking effect in 2016. [16] [17] In 2015, California became the second state to pass automatic voter registration with initial implementation expected in the second half of 2016. [18]
Voter registration boomed, rising by nearly 5 million, or 28%, from January 2016 to October 2023. At first, a huge proportion of the new voters registered as “no party preference.”
1 – State Legislature amended proposition after a number was already designated; amended version became Proposition 1A. 1A – Passed – California High Speed Rail Bond. S.B. 1856. 2 – Passed – Treatment of Farm Animals. Statute. 3 – Passed – Children's Hospital Bond Act. Grant Program. Statute.
Ballot measures were not numbered prior to the general election of 1914. [1] Until the November 1982 general election, proposition numbers started with "1" for each election. After November 1982, subsequent propositions received sequentially increasing numbers until November 1998 when the count was reset to "1".
The following is a list of California locations by voter registration. In October 2020, California had 22,047,448 registered voters , comprising 87.87% of its total eligible voters. Of those registered voters, 10,170,317 (46.10 percent) were registered Democrats , 5,334,323 (24.20 percent) were Republicans and, 5,283,853 were No Party ...
In February 1999, 13% of registered voters in California declined to state a party affiliation. That figure had risen to 18% by January 2006, and to 20% by October 2008. The growth of the category Decline to State follows California's switch from the closed primary to an open primary system in 1996 following the adoption of Proposition 198.