{"id":15605,"date":"2014-09-13T07:58:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T07:58:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-09-13T07:58:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T07:58:01","slug":"report-18-and-the-last-one-on-the-six-californias-signature-verification-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/13\/report-18-and-the-last-one-on-the-six-californias-signature-verification-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Report #18 (and the last one) on the Six Californias Signature Verification Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve probably heard by now that Six Californias failed to qualify for the ballot. You can read about it on the SoS website temporarily here<\/a> and here<\/a>, and more permanently here<\/a>. The official announcement that went out to the County Clerks and Registrars of Voters can be downloaded from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Given all that, this will be my final report on the signature qualification effort of Six Californias. It will contain more information than you will read in the media.<\/p>\n

The last five counties reported their random sampling results in Friday’s final update<\/a>: Inyo (validity rate 80.7%; they did a full count), Los Angeles (61.4%), Mariposa (67.0%), San Benito (63.1%; full count), and Trinity (66.7%). Raw counts were changed for Plumas County (an increase of 33) and Trinity (a loss of 15), for a net increase of 18 signatures, bringing the final raw count to 1,137,844 (was 1,137,826). In addition, Yuba corrected their duplicate count from 2 to 8, reducing their validity rate from 58.8% to 51.1%.<\/p>\n

Also, the date in which Alpine County submitted their random count was corrected to August 4th (was incorrectly reported as August 14th), and the typo I reported in Report #8<\/a> in Ventura County’s random count submission date was corrected to August 15th (was July 18th, before the July 30th date when they submitted their raw count).<\/p>\n

The overall validity rate went down to 66.15% (was 67.96%<\/a>), for a projected valid signature count of 752,685, a whopping 14,550 short of what was needed to qualify for a full count. (Another way of looking at it is they had 93% of what they needed for the ballot, not the 95% needed to qualify for a full count.)<\/p>\n

As I stated in my previous report<\/a>, if Los Angeles came in under 65.7%, Six Californias would not qualify. Los Angeles came in at 61.4%, and the initiative did not.<\/p>\n

I hope you’ve enjoyed this series. I had fun writing it. (To those of you who suggested I go into journalism, thanks, but no thanks. I’m keeping my day job.) I’ll respond to comments to this and previous diary entries as time permits, but I have no plans to do this sort of thing again, at least not until another initiative catches my interest.<\/p>\n

I do invite you to check out Californians for Electoral Reform<\/a>. We are a non-partisan (more accurately, multi-partisan) organization that does educational and advocacy work around instant runoff voting and proportional representation, as we believe these electoral reforms will result in better representation for all Californians than top-two primaries in single-member districts with independent redistricting can provide. We are an all-volunteer organization (no paid staff), so our strength is in our membership (dues are only $25\/year). You might enjoy reading the answers to our questionnaire<\/a> submitted by all the Secretary of State candidates prior to the June primary. Of course, you’ll be most interested in the answers of (in alphabetical order) Alex Padilla<\/a> and Pete Peterson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

–Steve Chessin
\n
President, Californians for Electoral Reform (CfER)
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www.cfer.org<\/a><\/p>\n

The opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of CfER.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve probably heard by now that Six Californias failed to qualify for the ballot. You can read about it on the SoS website temporarily here<\/a> and here<\/a>, and more permanently here<\/a>. The official announcement that went out to the County Clerks and Registrars of Voters can be downloaded from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Given all that, this will be my final report on the signature qualification effort of Six Californias. It will contain more information than you will read in the media.<\/p>\n

The last five counties reported their random sampling results in Friday’s final update<\/a>: Inyo (validity rate 80.7%; they did a full count), Los Angeles (61.4%), Mariposa (67.0%), San Benito (63.1%; full count), and Trinity (66.7%). Raw counts were changed for Plumas County (an increase of 33) and Trinity (a loss of 15), for a net increase of 18 signatures, bringing the final raw count to 1,137,844 (was 1,137,826). In addition, Yuba corrected their duplicate count from 2 to 8, reducing their validity rate from 58.8% to 51.1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87],"tags":[11314,11315],"class_list":["post-15605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-87","tag-11314","tag-11315"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-43H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}