California’s special election is finally here. While the effort by the Governor to get Prop 50 on the ballot only started in mid-summer, it seems like it’s been going on for a long time.
You’ve probably seen the ads for and against Prop 50 every time you’ve turned on your TV over the last couple of months.
According to Ballotpedia, this special election on this one issue, changing California’s congressional maps aimed at getting more Democrats elected and fewer Republicans in Congress, is the seventh most expensive ballot measure, based on total contributions to campaigns supporting and opposing the constitutional amendment with the Yes on 50 campaign raising 97-million dollars and the No on 50 campaign raising 47 million dollars.
It has been a fierce political fight. The latest report says about six million ballots had been returned as of Friday.
That’s about 26 percent of the 23 million ballots mailed out to voters in California.
Election officials say that’s close to the turnout that they saw in the 2021 special election to recall Governor Newsom.
But you can be sure, no matter how things end on election night, a much bigger political battle is coming a year from now when voters vote in the mid-term election.
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