<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hello, Subscriber Friends!<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>By now <i>all </i>registered California voters should have received the Official Voter Information Guide. And your <i>ballots</i> are in the mail to you, if not yet in your mailbox. <i>This </i><i>election</i><i> is an important and seriously contested </i><i>one</i><i>, </i>with looming questions about <i>challenges to casting our ballots.</i></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>So<i style="font-family: ArialMT;"> </i><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">we all want to vote early(ish)</span><i style="font-family: ArialMT;"> this year — </i><font face="ArialMT">and I’m one who usually advises <i>waiting </i>for late-breaking election info. </font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: ArialMT; white-space: pre;"> </span><font face="ArialMT">With 14 state props. on the ballot, I anticipate you’ll be interested in this year’s </font>Ballot Guide, and <font face="ArialMT">I plan to send it out on <b>October 12</b> — </font><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">earlier than in the past!</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b>Subscribe and <i>Un</i>subscribe</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre;"> </span><font face="ArialMT">That means there’s time to tell all your friends about the helpfulness of my guide, <i>so they can subscribe. </i></font><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">To do so</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">, <i>from your correct email, </i>email the word </span><i style="font-family: ArialMT;">subscribe </i><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">— in the body or subject line — to </span><a href="mailto:Dariens_ballot_guide_requests@lists.sonic.net" style="font-family: ArialMT;">Dariens_ballot_guide-requests@lists.sonic.net</a><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"> .</span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: ArialMT; white-space: pre;"> </span><i style="font-family: ArialMT;">Or </i><font face="ArialMT">you can </font><i style="font-family: ArialMT;">un</i><font face="ArialMT">subscribe. (That’s what you <i>should </i>do, if your email address is changing </font><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><i>From your <b>old </b>email, </i>email the word <i>un</i></span><i style="font-family: ArialMT;">subscribe </i><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">— body or subject line — to </span><a href="mailto:Dariens_ballot_guide_requests@lists.sonic.net" style="font-family: ArialMT;">Dariens_ballot_guide-requests@lists.sonic.net</a><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">. Then <i>subscribe </i>from your new address.)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: ArialMT; white-space: pre;"> </span><font face="ArialMT">Of course, you can also choose to unsubscribe for other reasons, and that’s better than </font><i style="font-family: ArialMT;">you </i><font face="ArialMT">getting a lot of unwanted emails</font><font face="ArialMT"> (or <i>me </i>getting a lot of bounces). I won’t be offended; I won’t even <i>know!</i></font></div><div><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b>Resources!</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: ArialMT; white-space: pre;"> </span><font face="ArialMT">While waiting for the Ballot Guide, you can read up on electoral races — or even the props. </font></div><div><font face="ArialMT"><br></font></div><div><font face="ArialMT"> + For</font><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"> helpful</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"> </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">information on </span><font face="ArialMT">candidates for nearly every office and every district, both state and local, with a progressive slant; I recommend Courage California’s </font><a href="https://progressivevotersguide.com/california">Progressive Voters Guide</a><font face="ArialMT">. They also cover the props! </font></div><div><font face="ArialMT"> + With just a little nosing around — you can find very good articles about different CA props. on the </font><a href="https://calmatters.org/">Cal Matters website</a><font face="ArialMT">. </font></div><div><font face="ArialMT"> + Find <i>all kinds </i>of </font><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">very helpful </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">voting info — races to registration — at </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/">Ballotpedia</a>.</div><div><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"> +<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Of course, you can also get diverse info at the official </span><a href="http://www.sos.ca.gov/"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"></span><font face="ArialMT">Secretary of State website</font></a><font face="ArialMT">. </font><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">My <i>favorite </i>page on that site is about </span><a href="http://www.sos.ca.gov/campaign-lobbying/cal-access-resources/measure-contributions/"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"></span><font face="ArialMT">campaign spending</font></a><font face="ArialMT">. See who is making the big ballot measure contributions. (But you may get no further there than the name of a PAC. <i>That’s your </i>chance to bring forth your inner <i>investigative reporter </i>by digging into the web for more info. <i>More fun than scrolling!</i>)</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT"><br></font></div><div><font face="ArialMT"><b><i>Answers!</i></b></font></div><div><font face="ArialMT"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;"> </span>Well, <i>my </i>answers<i> — </i>and <i>only </i>on the propositions — are coming, on October 12!</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>For now, here’s a teaser: </font></div><div><font face="ArialMT"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><i>With five – alive</i>: <b>Yes</b> on 1 through 5!</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Yours, Darien</font><i style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i></div><div><div>
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text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="western" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; line-height: 24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none;"><font color="#5b008d"> “<font face="Avenir Next, serif"><font size="4" style="font-size: 13pt;">Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.”</font></font></font><font color="#5b008d" face="Avenir Next, serif"><span style="font-size: 17.333334px;"> - </span></font><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(146, 82, 11);">Dr. Carl Sagan</span></p></span><p class="western" align="left"><font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 13pt;"></font></font></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="western" align="left" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; 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