2020 California Ballot Propositions Megathread

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I vote in Los Angeles:

Measure J: absolutely yes. so stoked to start defunding the police
Prop 14: tbd leaning yes
Prop 15: absolutely yes. the vast majority of this tax will fall on big business, not small businesses, especially retailers.
Prop 16: yes. honestly will hurt me and my children as a white person, but it's the right thing to do
Prop 17: yes, because i'm not a fascist. i think it's unconstitutional that we don't let prisoners vote anyway
Prop 18: yes because who cares. 17 year olds are more qualified to vote on, say, tech policy than a 77 year old with early signs of dementia (and can vote)
Prop 19: leaning no
Prop 20: nope! this is just a money grab by the prison industrial complex and won't make us safer
Prop 21: YES! I am so tired of having to jump over homeless ppl walking to the train. LA and SF are unbelievably unaffordable, and we keep getting told by the real estate industry that regulation like this will "stifle innovation" and prevent construction of affordable units. if that's true, WHERE ARE THE F'ING UNITS? they are liars, their paid experts are liars, and absent an alternative we need more rent control
Prop 22: absolutely not. speaking of liars, this is basically a ballot initiative with a single purpose--to keep lyft/uber drivers from unionizing. sure, it does provide some admirable protections for them. but in denying them collective bargaining it basically gives them some, but not all of their demands, and guarantees they will never be able to demand anything again. i'll be phonebanking on this one because the misinfo is insane
Prop 23: yes
Prop 24: leaning yes, but need to do a lot more research
Prop 25: yes, so important, it's just classist and wrong the way cash bail works now