2026 Ballot Power Analysis
Here are the questions we are suggesting you consider when looking at any ballot measure, statewide or local, which are really questions about power, both in terms of organized money and organized people:
- Where is it coming from? Who funded the effort to get it on the ballot?
- Can you explain the specific issue that the proposed legislation is designed to address?
- Who is supporting it and who is against it? Who is funding yes/no campaigns?
- Who stands to benefit and who stands to suffer?
- What does a "yes" vote mean and what does "no" vote mean?
Here are some of the tools we used (and you can too!) for our analyses:
- Voter booklet
- Local newspapers (Marin IJ usually supports the status quo/incumbent, but not always)
- Individual proposition campaign websites where you can find other endorsements
- Ballotpedia (best source of info the funding for each proposition, among other
- things)
- Ballot Propositions - California Budget & Policy Center (also has a lot of tutorials on the California budget process)
- League of Women Voters
- CalMatters (they usually have awesome short videos about each proposition)
MOC leaders researched and analyzed the following ballot initiatives using this framework: