ADOS Voting guide 2020 CALIFORNIA STATE BALLOT PROPOSITIONS ADOS Community Impact:
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ADOS Community Impact:
Makes a Black Agenda legal again in California. Levels the playing field in public contracts, education and employment. Reverses Prop 209. Creates opportunity for targeted investments in Black ADOS communities across California. Gives California a chance to correct decades of economic exclusion targeted against Black ADOS California residents. For these reasons, we recommend a vote of YES .
ADOS Community Impact:
Generally, the ability to transfer property tax values and assessments potentially contributes to the transfer of exclusionary generational wealth, the provision within this measure that requires secondary homes to be assessed at market value upon transfer is desirable. Particularly because this provision could help transfer exclusionary wealth to Black ADOS communities in need. For these reasons, we recommend a vote of YES .
PROP 17 : Voting Rights Restoration for Persons on Parole Amendment
Increases Black ADOS political power by increasing the number of eligible Black ADOS voters. Opens opportunity for new political education initiatives targeting Black youth. For these reasons, we recommend a vote of YES .
PROP 19 : Property Tax Transfers, Exemptions, and Revenue for Wildfire Agencies and Counties Amendment
VOTE YES
What it does:
PROP 20: Criminal Sentencing, Parole, and DNA Collection Initiative
What it does:
A “yes” vote supports this constitutional amendment to:
What it does:
A “yes” vote supports this constitutional amendment to allow people on parole for felony convictions to vote. A “no” vote opposes this constitutional amendment, thereby continuing to prohibit people who are on parole for felony convictions from voting. ADOS Community Impact: Expands voting rights to the Black ADOS community in California which has been intentionally targeted for incarceration. Increases Black ADOS political power by increasing the number of eligible Black ADOS voters. Restores dignity and citizenship rights to many well deserving Black Americans. For these reasons, we recommend a vote of YES .
PROP 18: Primary Voting for 17-Year-Olds Amendment VOTE YES What it does: A “yes” vote supports this constitutional amendment to allow 17-year-olds who will be 18 at the time of the next general election to vote in primary elections and special elections. A “no” vote opposes this constitutional amendment, thereby continuing to prohibit 17-year-olds who will be 18 at the time of the next general election to vote in primary | 5 1 | T H E HU B MA G A Z I N E
VOTE YES
• allow eligible homeowners to transfer
their tax assessments anywhere within the state and allow tax assessments to be transferred to a more expensive home with an upward adjustment;
• increase the number of times that
persons over 55 years old or with severe disabilities can transfer their tax assessments from one to three; * require that inherited homes that are not used as principal residences, such as second homes or rentals, be reassessed at market value when transferred; and
• allocate additional revenue or net
savings resulting from the ballot measure to wildfire agencies and counties.
A “no” vote opposes this constitutional amendment, therefore continuing to: • allow eligible homeowners to transfer
their tax assessments within counties and to homes ofequal or lesser market value;
• keep the number of times that persons
over 55 years old or with severe disabilities can transfer their tax assessments at one;
• allow the tax assessments on inherited
homes, including those not used as principal residences, to be transferred from parent to child or grandparent to grandchild. FALL 2020
VOTE NO A “yes” vote supports this initiative to add crimes to the list of violent felonies for which early parole is restricted; recategorize certain types of theft and fraud crimes as wobblers (chargeable as misdemeanors or felonies); and require DNA collection for certain misdemeanors. A “no” vote opposes this initiative to add crimes to the list of violent felonies for which early parole is restricted; recategorize certain types of theft and fraud crimes as wobblers (chargeable as misdemeanors or felonies); and require DNA collection for certain misdemeanors. ADOS Community Impact: Increases mass incarceration of Black ADOS communities. Plain and simple. For these reasons, we recommend a vote of NO .
PROP 21: Local Rent Control Initiative
VOTE YES What it does: A “yes” vote supports this ballot initiative to allow local governments to enact rent control on housing that was first occupied over 15 years ago, with an exception for landlords who own no more than two homes with distinct titles or subdivided interests. continued, next page T H E H UB M AGAZI NE | 5 1 |
