PROP 01 Author’s vote: YES
Housing affordability bonds
Authorizes $11.25 billion in housing bonds.
Recorded decision confirmed; the author’s final explanation is pending.
Baseline checked · more research pending
California / November 3, 2026
A decision.
Not the end of the questions.
Fourteen propositions.
The evidence, the tradeoffs, and the things
I’m still trying to understand.
A working research notebook. Votes are recorded. Opening thoughts are reconstructed drafts, not quotations. Baselines are sourced; unfinished research is marked. Read the method →
Where I landed
7 YES / 7 NO · 14 research pages
These are the author’s choices, not a visitor poll. Open any measure to examine the case on both sides.
PROP 02 Author’s vote: YES
A larger rainy day fund
Changes the rules for building state reserves and making extra debt payments.
Recorded decision confirmed; the author’s final explanation is pending.
Baseline checked · more research pending
PROP 03 Author’s vote: YES
Permanent high-income tax rates
Makes the existing higher income-tax rates on high earners permanent instead of allowing them to expire in 2031.
Recorded decision confirmed; the author’s final explanation is pending.
Baseline checked · more research pending
PROP 04 Author’s vote: YES
Public campaign financing
Allows governments to establish public financing for candidates’ campaigns.
Recorded decision confirmed; the author’s final explanation is pending.
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PROP 05 Author’s vote: YES
Changing recall elections
Removes the replacement-candidate question from state recall elections.
Recorded decision confirmed; the author’s final explanation is pending.
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PROP 37 Author’s vote: YES
Homebuyer down-payment loans
Creates a homebuyer assistance program financed with up to $25 billion in revenue bonds.
Recorded decision confirmed; the author’s final explanation is pending.
Baseline checked · more research pending
PROP 38 Author’s vote: NO
Immunology research bonds
Authorizes $8.4 billion in general obligation bonds for immunology and immunotherapy research.
Recorded decision confirmed; the author’s final explanation is pending.
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PROP 39 Author’s vote: NO
Additional voter identification
Adds identification requirements when voting.
Recorded decision confirmed; the author’s final explanation is pending.
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PROP 40 Author’s vote: YES
A one-time billionaire wealth tax
Imposes a one-time tax of 5% on qualifying billionaires’ wealth.
Recorded decision confirmed; the author’s final explanation is pending.
Baseline checked · more research pending
PROP 41 Author’s vote: NO
Special-tax audits and spending limits
Adds reviews of programs funded by special taxes and changes treatment under the state spending limit.
Recorded decision confirmed; the author’s final explanation is pending.
Baseline checked · more research pending
PROP 42 Author’s vote: NO
Limits on new property and retroactive taxes
Prohibits new ownership taxes on financial assets and other personal property, and limits certain retroactive taxes.
Recorded decision confirmed; the author’s final explanation is pending.
Baseline checked · more research pending
PROP 43 Author’s vote: NO
Local special-tax voting thresholds
Requires a two-thirds vote for citizen-proposed local special taxes.
Recorded decision confirmed; the author’s final explanation is pending.
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PROP 44 Author’s vote: NO
Community clinic spending rules
Requires private nonprofit safety-net clinics to spend at least 90% of revenue on health care services.
Recorded decision confirmed; the author’s final explanation is pending.
Baseline checked · more research pending
PROP 45 Author’s vote: NO
Environmental review for essential projects
Changes CEQA procedures for eligible housing, transportation, water, health, wildfire, education, internet and clean-energy projects. It sets review deadlines and narrows alternatives analysis and court remedies.
Recorded NO. Draft framing: weigh faster approvals against narrower public review and legal remedies; author approval pending.
Detailed reference draft