<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;"><div style="font-family: ArialMT;">Dear Subscribers,</div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> I expect that this is my final email to you for 2026. If you haven’t already read through my guide, I recommend that you read this version, the “corrected” one. Now that I’ve had more time, I've gone through the text again to correct typos and make small edits. </div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Thank you to the two people who called my attention to specific and more substantive typos. (A <i>very </i>few errors were significant — such as the same org. being listed as both supporting and opposing a prop.! — but they were easily “seen through”.) </div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>None of my recommendations have changed; some of the language is a bit clearer.</div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b><u>The Short Version of a Long Ballot</u> (My “Bare” Recommendations)</b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b>• Prop. 1 – Bond Bucks for Diverse Housing – <font color="#00f900">Yes</font></b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b>• Prop. 2 – Reserving More State Funds for Bad Years – </b><b><font color="#00f900">Yes</font></b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b>• Prop. 3 – Funds Ed. and Health Care by Extending the Existing Tax on High Incomes – </b><b><font color="#00f900">Yes</font></b><b> </b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b>• Prop. 4 – Allows Public Financing of Election Campaign – </b><b><font color="#00f900">Yes</font></b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b>• Prop. 5 – A Chance to Improve the Recall System – </b><b><font color="#00f900">Yes</font></b><b> </b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b>• Prop. 37 – Bond for Loans to Build New Middle-Income Homes –<font color="#ff2600"> No</font> </b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b>• Prop. 38 – Deceptive Bond for Immunology Research –</b><b><font color="#ff2600"> No</font></b><b> </b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b>• Prop. 39 – Unnecessary & Obstructive ID Requirements for Voting –</b><b><font color="#ff2600"> No</font></b><b> </b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b>• Prop. 40 – Why There’s So Much You Need to Know About the Wealth Tax – </b><b><font color="#00f900">Yes</font></b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b>• Prop. 41 – To Make the 1979 Gann Limit Live on and on –</b><b><font color="#ff2600"> No</font></b><b> </b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b>• Prop. 42 – No Wealth Taxes and No Retroactive Ones (so no Prop. 40) –</b><b><font color="#ff2600"> No</font></b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b>• Prop. 43 – A Tough Two-Thirds Vote Requirement on Local Tax Measures –</b><b><font color="#ff2600"> No</font></b><b> </b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b>• Prop. 44 – Do Most of Us Know Enough About Health Clinics to Vote Wisely? –</b><b><font color="#ff2600"> No</font></b><b> </b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b>• Prop. 45 – Reduces Environmental Review Protections –</b><b><font color="#ff2600"> No</font></b><b> </b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>Struggling to remember all this? I have some easy helps </i>(including a new one). <b> </b>See the last page — the end — of the Guide.</div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;"> </span><font face="ArialMT">(Yes — you can </font><i style="font-family: ArialMT;">feel free to share the attached </i><font face="ArialMT"><i>Guide to the California Ballot Propositions — </i></font><i style="font-family: ArialMT;">and to invite your friends to subscribe </i><font face="ArialMT">(for 202</font><b style="font-family: ArialMT;">8</b><font face="ArialMT">).</font><i style="font-family: ArialMT;"> </i><font face="ArialMT"> But please, they should do it now, while they’re thinking of it. Two years from now will likely be too late: I’m now trying to email it out about three weeks before election day.</font></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Remember, subscribers receive the Guide only once (or, as in the case of this correction, rev. 1, just twice) — <i>only </i>at the time I email out to the list. (No, I don’t have a website with the Guide.)</div><div></div></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b>How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to Darien's Guide to the California Ballot Propositions </b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>To subscribe, email the word subscribe — in the body or subject line of the message — to <a href="mailto:Dariens_Ballot_Guide-request@lists.sonic.net">Dariens_Ballot_Guide-request@lists.sonic.net</a>. Or, to unsubscribe, email from the account / address that you’re unsubscribing, the word unsubscribe. </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I won’t use subscriber email address for anything else, and one can always unsubscribe. </div><div></div></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Yours till next elections — happy Hallowe’en! Darien</div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div></body></html>