California's Ballot Initiative Process Is Up for Grabs California's ballot initiative was established by legal reformers as an alternative to the legislative process. It allows citizens a way to create their own law — first by paying a fee, then by gathering enough signatures to qualify for the ballot. Now a Huntington Beach attorney has made a mockery of the process. He calls it the " Sodomy Suppression Act ," which would allow the killing of all gays and lesbians. He's paid the fee $200. Legal experts say that Attorney General Kamala Harris is now required to provide a title and a 100-word summary so that signature gathering can begin. It will take 365,000 to qualify for the ballot.

Primary Eve: Who's Voting, and Are the Polling Booths Ready? Tomorrow's ballot includes 19 offices, from Governor to County Supervisor. Fortunately no one has to vote for them all. We hear how California's Top Two system works.

In Tomorrow's Elections, Follow the Money About $120 million has been spent on nine ballot propositions collectively, with most of the money often coming from just one side. They're all initiatives, which means that special interests put them on the ballot. Kim Alexander and Bob Stern remind us what the measures would do and where the money's coming from. The Superintendent of Public Instruction is a statewide office that gets little attention in a year when the races for Governor and US Senator crowd out almost everything else in the room. In an odd arrangement, the elected Superintendent carries out policies set by the Governor's appointed Board of Education . Jack O'Connell is termed out after eight years, and the candidates for this nonpartisan office are both Democrats,  Assemblyman Tom Torlakson and former school superintendent Larry Aceves . Howard Blume has covered the race for the LA Times . Ken Ofgang if Metropolitan News-Enterprise updates us on the judgeships on the ballot, which hardly see any campaign spending at all. And it just wouldn't be WWLA? on election eve if we didn't talk slate slate mailers with Allan Hoffenblum, who co-edits the most authoritative running account of legislative and Congressional elections, the California Target Book.

Round-up of Statewide Elections as Voting Season Begins In California, sample ballots already are in the mail for the4 next statewide election, which will make its own kind of history. Election day is June 8, but many people will want to vote early, and there’s a new way to do that. Kim Alexander is President of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation, and she already has her ballot.